2024-05-17 17:03:27
The claim that Israel "offered to accept back" 300,000 Palestinians in 1949 is flat out false. In reality, Israel offered to allow 75,000 (10%) of the refugees to return, an offer even US negotiators considered totally insufficient. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(3-0-3) Author
2024-05-17 19:14:04
That 1948 war could have been avoided, along with the refugee problem, had the Arab side accepted territorial compromise from the outset, in the form of the 1947 UN partition plan. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(3-0-2) Author
2024-05-18 06:42:20
Unless this was a different 300,000 in 1949, it wasn't technically the Israelis who offered, it was the Syrians, specifically Husni al Zaim who was quickly deposed, partially for his willingness to make peace with Israel. Ben-Gurion never technically accepted the proposal. [Link] NEEDS_MORE_RATINGS(0-0-1) Author