[lit-ideas] Re: U.N. Special Committee on Palestine
- From: Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2006 09:41:37 -0700 (PDT)
--- Lawrence Helm <lawrencehelm@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> You say "A large number of the Palestinians were
> expelled before the state
> of Israel was officially established in May 1948.
> Israel at that time
> already controlled more territory than was allotted
> it under the UN
> partition plan." But your timeline sites, the sites
> that make "long winded
> rhetoric" unnecessary, provide no support for this
> assertion. It could be
> true, I don't know, but you provide no evidence for
> it.
*I haven't got all of my sources at hand. According to
this rather conservative estimate, around 250 000
Palestinians became refugees by June 1948:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palestinian_exodus
Will get back if I find more sources on this.
O.K.
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