In a Washington Post commentary about Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, a self-styled wonk named Nir Rosen (pictured) describes the War of Independence as “ethnic cleansing.”
The rights of the Palestinian refugees have been ignored for six decades by a world that has wished them away. But the Middle East will never know peace or stability until they are granted justice. In 1948-49, around the conflict that Israelis refer to as their War of Independence and that Palestinians call the Catastrophe, some 750,000 Palestinians were ethnically cleansed to make way for the creation of the Jewish state. In 1967, during the Six-Day War, 400,000 Palestinians were expelled by the Israeli military, according to Amnesty International.
Mitch Bard responds to the ethnic cleansing charge effectively enough. As for Rosen, the man’s consistent in his views towards Israel.
