HISTORY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: United Nations General Assembly Resolution 194, United Nations Partition Plan For Palestine, Arab Jews
Document Summary
The genesis of palestinian refugees has produced rival stories. The israeli narrative denies that they planned to displace anyone. Without the attempt to destroy the yishuv, there would have been no palestinian displacement. Shifts the responsibility from israel to those who attacked it. Preserves israel"s claim to be a society more moral than those around it. Arab narrative claims the jews expelled the arabs of palestine with pre-determination and design. Arab narrative incites israel as an immoral robber state and by absolving arab states of responsibility, it preserves the palestinian self image of innocence. The refugee issue remains central to the mideast today. Both narratives are right and wrong, because both capture only part of a complex reality. A similar number of jews were also expelled from neighboring arab countries" Palestinians tried to minimize jewish suffering to exploit their own o. Jews trump their own pain to reduce attention to palestinian grievances.
