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Originally Posted by Flash Walken
Just to elaborate further, the massacre at Deir Yassin was the catalyst for the surrounding arab armies to come to palestinian 'rescue'. Most civilians did abandon their homes because of exagerated fears of jewish barbarism. To help draw the surrounding arab armies to their to their side, the massacre at deir yassin was manipulated through misinformation to be even worse than it was. Palestinian arabs abandon their homes because of these fears, an unintended consequence, and have since not been allowed to return.
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Good point. Perhaps that history explains in part why civilians on both sides--despite rocket attacks, bombings, threatening leaflets dropped from the sky and dire reports in the media--refuse to leave their homes and villages. So much of the history of the region revolves around people leaving their homes for a brief period of time, and then not being allowed to return.