Reply #92: You'd be incorrect

[Chulanowa]

The 1948 war was waged between Arab states and Israel; there were Palestinian combatants, mostly fighting in Jordanian uniforms, but for the most part the Arabs of the Palestinian Mandate were civilians caught between the two forces. Israel engaged in blatant ethnic cleansing during the course of the war, emptying and often murdering villages. Would you like a list of the villages and towns emptied, one way or another, by the Israelis in this time period?

Abu Sinan
'Amqa
'Arab Ghawarina
'Arab al-Na'im
al-Bassa
Kabul
Kafr 'Inan
Majd al-Kurum
al-Manshiyya
Mi'ar
Ras al-Nab'
Sha'ab
Suruh
Tarbikha
Umm al-Faraj
al-Zeeb

Those are just a few out of Acre. There are similar lists, many larger, out of the districts of Baysan, Bethlehem, beersheba, Gaza, Haifa, Hebron, Jaffa, Jericho, Jerusalem, Jinin, Nablus, Nazareth, al-Ramla, Ramallah, Safad, Tiberias, and Tulkarm. If you really like, I could list those - and give you the names of the Jewish towns and settlements built over them, in many cases.

I suggest you look at some maps of the time. The "mere creation of Israel" involved military conquest of a great amount of the Arab portion of the partition, complete with ethnic cleansing.

I suppose that, in the same vein, you believe the Jews brought Russia's pogroms and krystalnacht down on their own heads? 'Cause that's the sort of logic you've got going here.