Also, there was no option to stay in place.
Fight: get expelled.
Don't fight: get expelled.
Complain about getting expelled and want to go back: evil by both nature and nurture, wants to destroy a tiny little state that never did any harm to anyone because they hate Jews.
Except that's not reality. Lots of them stayed, were peaceful and were almost never expelled.
Loren says that Israel would drop nuclear weapons on Beirut, Damascus, and Amman before it would allow those refugees back to their homes. But we're supposed to think Muslims are the ones whose religious bigotry is a problem.
Because allowing them back home is suicide. They're just Jews, though, not people, so what difference does that make?