NEW YORK—I have an anonymous letter which asks me what is being done by the United Nations about the plight of the nearly one million Arab refugees of Israel aggression.
Isn't it astonishing how many mistakes can creep into one sentence.
There are 800,000 refugees who are being cared for by the U.N. and have been cared for since, during the war, their own Moslem mufti in Jerusalem called upon the Arabs in Israel to leave.
Israel was not the aggressor in this war. The Arabs were the aggressors. The partition of Palestine and the creation of the State of Israel was the result of U.N. action.
The Arabs did not accept the new state. So Israel fought and gained more land, holding it by defeating her Arab attackers.
The Arabs who did not heed the call of the Mufti and leave Israel during the war are still living there. As a minority, they have certain grievances. But, by and large, with eight representatives in the Knesset (the parliament), they have a voice, as citizens of Israel, to demand redress for their wrongs.
No one can blame the poor people who left Israel. They were told that in a few weeks they would be back and would receive not only their own land and belongings but that of the Israelis, who would be driven into the sea.
Unfortunately for the Arabs, this did not come to pass. Israel remained a state and those poor refugees were the saddest and most miserable people I have seen in any refugee camps.
The worst of their plight was that, being in Arab countries where they didn't want to feel they were permanently settled, they were not even allowed to find jobs to keep up their skills, to set up work within the refugee camps for this purpose or to train young people.
Whenever a few people were settled and left the camp, people seeped in from the desert overnight. This was because the food in these camps was better than what they could obtain through their own efforts outside. This sounds incredible, but the head of the authority, who was an American, told me this when I visited these camps.
So the United Nations has done all it could to care for these people, who are victims of the Arab government's decision that they should leave Israel. Every effort should be made now to resettle those who can return to Israel. The rest should be indemnified and settled where they are needed in Arab countries.
In large part, these people's homes in Israel have disappeared and their possessions are no longer there. The face of the land has changed because Israel has taken in thousands of refugees from other Arab countries who now occupy most of the land.
I was never so sorry for any refugees in my life as I was for these poor people. But war always brings hardships and injustices and people always suffer for what governments have done.
The Israelis did not instigate aggression and they did win that war.
The most friendly things that have been said concerning the Arabs appeared in an editorial in Life Magazine last week and I suggest the sender of this letter read that editorial. Then he will recognize the fact that both Arabs and Israelis have made many mistakes, both are the friends of the U.S. as far as we are concerned, but that the basic mistake is that the U.N.'s creation of the state of Israel was not accepted by the Arabs from the start. It will have to be accepted in the long run.
In the meantime, much has been lost that might have gone into constructive improvement of the life of the people in Israel and the Arab states. And refugee camps still are not wiped out.

Nazis invaded Poland. Zionists invaded Palestine.

England and France declared war on Nazis for invading Poland. Palestine's Arabic speaking neighbors tried and failed to liberate Palestinian lands from Zionist invaders just as England and France tried and failed to liberate Poland from the Nazi invaders.

Sometimes it is clear who the bad guys are, and other times you have been brainwashed.

Jews are from Judea. Arabs are from Arabia.

At the time of the Arab invasion of the Holy land in the 6th century, the Jews already had a thriving 2,000 year old history in the land

There is no historic people known as the Palestinians.
When the Arabs proposed a boycott of the Jews, they called it a boycott of the Palestinians. remember?

There is no historic people known as the Palestinians.
When the Arabs proposed a boycott of the Jews, they called it a boycott of the Palestinians. remember?

While the Jewish faith is from Judea, Judea was nothing but Hebrew occupied Canaanite lands. Hebrew invaders slaughtering and enslaving the people already in the land will never make Palestine a Jewish homeland. And it will never give Zionists a birthright of murderous theft of any portion of the Palestinian's homeland. Zionists are just the latest gang of murderous thieve to invade the land.

Arabs were from Arabia. They drove the Roman occupiers out of Palestine, and then they left, to kick the Romans out of Lebanon, and Syria, etc etc. Then the locals took 200 years to adopt Arabic for them selves. The only Arabs who need to learn Arabic are the Arab babies.

Arabs didn't replace the locals of Palestine, or Lebanon or Syria, etc etc. There is not even 1 single nation to be replaced by Arabs in the conquest.

Zionists are mostly (97%) Khazar Jews. Khazars were central Asian Turks who converted to Judaism 700 years after Hebrew occupiers got driven from the land by Romans. Zionists have no history in the land that they murder the locals to steal.

You got it. The Arabs are the colonial invaders of this region