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Abbas admits his family left Israel in '48 by choice
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Fatah chief Mahmoud Abbas says the Arabs of the Galilee city of Tzfat left in 1948 not because they were driven out, but on their own volition, according to an article published by Israel National News. In the article, Abbas is quoted with the following:
“I am among those who were born in the city of Tzfat (Safed). We were a family of means. I studied in elementary school, and then came the naqba [calamity, namely, the founding of the State of Israel – ed.]. At night, we left by foot from Tzfat, to the Jordan River, where we remained for a month. Then we went to Damascus, and then to our relatives in Jordan, and then we settled in Damascus.
“My father had money, and he spent his money systematically, and after a year, the money ran out and we began to work.
“The people’s basic motives brought them to run away for their lives and with their property. These [motives] were very important, for they feared the violence of the Zionist terrorist organizations – and especially those of us from Tzfat felt that there was an old desire for revenge from the rebellion of 1929, and this was in the memory of our families and parents.”
PERHAPS we should simply ponder this fact for a moment. Abbas' family left by CHOICE.
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees spends roughly $135 million of American money every year - with a total budget of several hundreds of millions - to support roughly four million Palestinian refugees.
By definition, a refugee is an exile who flees for safety. If these Palestinians living in "refugee camps" in Jordan, Syria, Lebanon, the West Bank and Gaza fled by choice, then maybe we should be reconsidering their status...
(Read the full Israel National News article)
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