When human rights organizations devote a great part of their time to criticizing the state of Israel but do not refer equally to blatant human rights violations elsewhere, such as the premeditated murder by Palestinian terrorist organizations for decades of thousands of innocent Israeli citizens including infants, children and old people, and even more since the intifada, to the mass murders and expulsions in other places for example, in Sudan, or to ignoring the denial of citizen rights to women and homosexuals as is common in many Arab and Muslim countries – this is a one-sided discriminatory attitude whose motives we should question. In quite a few cases the motives are anti-semitic.

The Arab-Zionist conflict was predicted after World War I. The 1919 U.S. King-Crane Commission confirmed that founding a Jewish state in Palestine could not be accomplished without violating “the civil and religious rights” of the indigenous Arabs. The British military warned that transforming Arab Palestine into a Jewish state could only be carried out “by force of arms.”

War provides governments with strategic justification and cover to carry out ethnic cleansing. David Ben Gurion, head of the Jewish Agency, viewed war as an opportunity to deal with the “Arab problem.” Under his leadership, Jewish settlers began preparing militarily in the 1930s for a decisive war to seize control of Palestine.

The U.N. partition resolution of November 29, 1947 sparked the civil war. U.S., British, U.N., Zionist and Arab military analysts concur that Zionist militias were far superior in manpower and armament than the Palestinian Arabs during the civil war. The Haganah, IZL, and LHI went on the offensive in December 1947, according to experienced on-site U.S. and British military officers.

Zionist forces depopulated twenty-six known Palestinian villages before April 1948, while Britain remained responsible for law and order in Palestine. The Haganah launched Plan D in early April when British troops were too few to counter Zionist offensives. The British hands-off policy during the civil war enabled the Arabs’ expulsions. During the civil war, the Palestinian Arabs were forced out of the major cities including: Acre, Baysan, Haifa, Jaffa, Safad, and Tiberias. Zionist militias seized control of most of the British-built state and military apparatus before May 15, 1948.

The Zionists used the cover of war to deliberately and systematically expel over 400,000 Palestinian Arabs from 225 villages, towns, and cities before May 15. The majority of the Palestinians (55%) were forcibly displaced during the civil war before the British left Palestine on May 15. Even those cities and villages that concluded nonaggression pacts with the Zionists were attacked and their people expelled, including al-Maliha, al-Shaykh Muwannis, Abu Kishk, Miska, Haifa, Jaffa, Dayr Yasin, and many others. About 6,000 Jews were killed during the 1948 war, and an estimated 20,000 Palestinian Arabs.

This was not a war against combatants; the Red Cross estimated that 84% of the Palestinians expelled were children under 15, pregnant and nursing mothers, the elderly, and the infirm. As the Arabs were being driven out, Jewish settlers robbed, harassed, humiliated, and killed them. Palestinians survivors reported that in numerous villages, those who remained after a Zionist attack—the handicapped, sick, wounded, and the elderly—were killed. Churches, mosques, and cemeteries were desecrated and destroyed to eliminate the Palestinian presence from the land.

Even the last British High Commissioner of Palestine, General Sir Alan Cunningham viewed the Zionists’ actions as deliberate ethnic cleansing: “In the end, it was clear that it was the Jews who were trying to frighten the Arabs and to drive them into the sea…They were being pretty ruthless in their attacks and it was clear it was being done by conscious design.”

The recent book, Under the Cover of War: The Zionist Expulsion of the Palestinians by Rosemarie M. Esber (Arabicus, 2008), is a study of the civil war period of the 1948 Palestine war. The book is based on British, U.S. and U.N. military and diplomatic records, Israeli sources, and interviews with Palestinians who witnessed the civil war. Her research supports these findings and challenges Morris’s presumptions.

Peace can prevail if their territory can be returned to them.

Israel possesses 400 nukes. Who is going to make the Jews leave?

Iran??

Give me a break. Iran won’t be able to have one ballistic missile avoid being shot down over it’s own country or neighboring Arabs countries.

Israel has the most effective , comprehensive missile defense system in the world. They are constantly improving it.

The Jews will remain in their homeland they have lived in for 4,000 years.

“Morris believes the fate of Palestinians is simply not as important as that of Jews, most of whom are recent immigrants or first generation. If this is not racism, I don’t know what is.”

No denying Jews a sanctuary after thousands of years of persecution is as racist as Adolf Hitler.

“Morris lacks the imagination and goodwill necessary to arrive at the inevitable end result of this failed Zionist project – the return of Palestinians and the birth of a new nation. ”

400 nukes and increasing as we speak says you are an idiot if you think the return of the fictitious group you call Palestinians is inevitable.