Then she laid out what she had learned and her conclusions:
The current fate of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, living for decades in inhumane conditions worse that any refugees on earth, is primarily the fault and responsibility of those who stole their lands and ethnically cleaned them during the 1948 Nakba. Additionally, the Palestinian refugees' abject existence is the responsibility of those who have egregiously nurtured the nineteenth century Zionist colonial enterprise with aid and weapons while averting their eyes from the Palestinians Right of Return and the international responsibility to implement international law including many UN Security Council Resolutions 242, 338 and UNGAR 194. In addition to the United States and Europe, responsibility attaches to much of the World community.
They were forced out of 531villages and 11 cities in Palestine as part of a series of detailed and meticulous ethnic cleansing campaigns rarely witnessed since Germany's third Reich. Indeed, many of the same methods used to transfer the population of Palestine thru terror and intimidation experienced under the Nazi administration of Germany were employed by the Zionist organizers of the Nakba.
"For more than six decades", she wrote: "the Zionist colonial enterprise that still occupies Palestine, falsely claimed that the Palestinians left their farms and homes because they were ordered to do so by Arab governments in order to clear the way for a massive Arab army that would soon throw the Jews into the sea. It was nonsense of course, since the so-called Arab "army" was ten percent of the Zionist forces, had no such plan, and in the case of Syrian forces ran out of ammunition early on and the Jordanian did not want to fight at all and left after the of fall Lod and Ramle."
But, according to Caroline, "the Zionist lobby in the USA and Europe repeated this and many other lies for more than half a century." Caroline wrote that relatively recently, Walid Khalidi (1988), Zionist historian Benny Morris, the eminent Palestinian scholar Salman Abu Sitta and others exposed this lingering fraud.
Yet, during the 2012 American presidential campaigns in Florida, New York and elsewhere this shibboleth surfaced again without challenge or rebuttal by the main stream media, debate sponsors or claimed debate "fact checkers."
A summary of Caroline's research instructs us about the reasons Palestinians left their homes and land seeking sanctuary in Lebanon.
In approximately 90% of the 531 villages, direct Zionist military attacks emptied the Palestinian population. This took the forms of expulsion by Jewish forces (approximately 15%), direct military assault by Zionist gangs and militia (60%) and approximately 18% as a result of an imminent attack following the destruction of a near-by village sometimes in view of neighboring villages.
Other villages were emptied by insidious "whispering campaigns" whereby Zionist agents, posing as "friendly Jewish neighbors" would whisper to Palestinian villagers that a horrible bombardment of their village was imminent and they must, at risk of their lives, leave for a week or so until "the situation' returned to normal. Another 38 villages were ethnically cleansed because of "fear of Jewish attack" and five villages were emptied on orders of a local leader or Muktar.
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