Does the Flight and Expulsion of Palestinian Refugees prove that Zionism is Racism?
The Palestinian refugee problem was created because the Arabs of Palestine refused to live in a Jewish state and Arab states refused to accept U.N. Resolution 181, which partitioned Palestine. The refugees were not created by Zionism. The Arab side instigated a war, driven by Nazi-collaborator Hajj Amin El Husseini, Grand Mufti of Jerusalem. Husseini told the British that his solution for the “Jewish Question” in Palestine was the same as “the solution that had been adopted in Europe,” namely extermination. Had there been no war, there would have been no refugees. The Jews of Palestine defended themselves, as any people would, regardless of ideology. After the war, they were reluctant to admit a large body of people who were belligerents by definition, because they had refused to live in a Jewish state. After World War II, Czechoslovakia expelled ethnic Germans who had been Czech citizens living in the Sudetensland, because they proved to be a threat to the national existence of Czecho
