UNPACKED – Did Israel Expel Palestinian Arabs? The Israeli-Palestinian Context
This week on Unpacked, we bring you part three of our six-part series, The Israeli-Palestinian Context. Halfway through our series, we come to one of the most contested topics in the great debate that is the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: did Israel expel the Palestinian Arabs?
Let’s get our facts straight, if Israel did expel this Arab population, why didn’t the surrounding Arab countries take them in? What Arab populations in pre-and-post state Israel actually got pushed out, and why? Is it true that Arabs are the only population who became refugees as the borders changed?
We are diving into all of this and more, as we continue on the journey of history that makes up this fascinatingly, and often challenging, timeline.
What’s the true story of the hundreds of thousands of displaced people in the Middle East? One of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict’s biggest hot potatoes is the idea that ethnic cleansing transpired against Palestinian Arabs in 1948. This week, we are zooming out to give you a wider perspective of the events that caused the removal of both Arabs and Jews from their homes in pre-and-post state Israel.
