A. Refugees

Arabs
Most left on their own – 650,000
50,000 thrown out – Benny Morris
No reabsorption, but Jordan

Jews
750,000 expelled, some executed
All absorbed
No compensation

B. "Occupation"

1967 
1. Not military occupation

2. War of self defense

3. Israel offerred to give back, but not accepted- Khartoun conference – 3 No’s “No recognition, no negotiations, no peace”

4. UN resolutions gave official control to Israel

5. No previous sovereignty by Palestinian Arabs- never Palestinian state, not occupied Palestine

C. “Palestinians”

Before 1948: Jews = Palestinians Never a Palestinian state

Palestinians = Arabs, from Arabia Palestine named after Phillistines by Romans, Phillistines were not Arabs or Muslims.

Arabs never asked for a state for 19 years they held the land, and Egypt and Jordan never offered them a state.

Arabs did not call themselves Palestinians until 1964 with PLO, most of Arab world had envisioned a pan-Arab state.

D. Formation of Middle East States

Ottoman Empire after WWI Lebanon and Syria –France; power shared according to religion;

Syria a military dictatorship Palastine and Iraq – GB;

Iraq given to monarchy of Faisel; then miltary distatorship

Arabia conquered by Saudis after WWI Jordan carved out of Palestine in 1921: consolation to Hashemites who lost Arabia to Saudis