Jayjay
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That's nonsense and you know it. The refugees escaped from war which was started by the founding of Israel. Whether they expected to return "victorious" or other nonsensensical expectation you might have is irrelevant... Israel never offered to let any of the refugees return, regardless of whether they would renounce violence or not. You just made that up in the bizarre imaginary alternate world where you live.I would ask you to support your argument but it doesn't matter. Even if every single person in that 500,000 number had been forced out of Algeria, Libya, Egypt, Syria, etc. over that 24 year period, it still wouldn't justify Zionists forcing out Palestinians. The Palestinians weren't the ones forcing the Jews out of other countries, and the expulsion of the Palestinians started first.
And you're missing the fact that few people were forced out of Israel in 48. The vast majority of the displacements were people who left of their own accord, expecting to return victoriously--and when they wouldn't renounce violence Israel didn't let them back in.
As usual, you are defending ethnic cleansing when perpetrated by Jews against Arabs, and denouncing it when perpetrated by Arabs against Jews, even if the latter happened during much longer time period, affected less people, and had less far-reaching geopolitical consequences. One standard for Jews, another for Arabs.