re: #3 researchok

Firstly, it bears remembering (as is often forgotten or deliberately overlooked) progressive Arabs wereinitially receptive of a Jewish/Zionist state as a neighbor.

That excerpt is ringing a bell, but…I think it had to do with one of the early Zionist groups, but I don’t remember it being as high-profile as what you linked to. Thanks for that.

WRT to the second part about forcible evictions en masse, I haven’t looked real deeply yet at that 1948 period covering war & independence, though it’s one of the years that the Palestinians I knew drummed in my head like a mantra (1948, 1956, 1967, 1973). I’m basically trying to take it a little bit at a time as incidents are mentioned here and I follow up on them—you know, just try to understand the events surrounding that ONE event.

Of course, that doesn’t always work. More often than not, I grab what looks like a reasonably short piece of thread and start pulling, only to find out that it’s attached to a bazillion mile long spool that was hidden just out of sight. O_o

re: #4 researchok

More in a bit if I haven’t put you to sleep.

Not at all, I appreciate the effort and industriously squirrel away all the bits & pieces.

To be clear, there were incidents of forced deportations but they were rare and isolated.

Noted.