In October 1946 a plan for an independent Palestinian state was published in the Palestinian newspaper Al Difaa. The plans put forward by...

If ever the subject of 750,000 Palestinians fleeing their homes in the months before and after Israel’s declaration of independence in May 1948 is brought up, Israel supporters often reply by talking about the over 800,000 Jews who fled Arab states. What is rarely mentioned is that the Jews fled Arab countries only after Palestinians had been forced out at gunpoint or fled their homes in fear of violence in Palestine. Zionists carried out massacres of Palestinians in villages