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Source: http://www.hudsonny.org/2009/07/arab-responsibility-for-palestinian-refugees.php
Arab Responsibility for Palestinian Refugees
[Hudson Institute-New York] Marcus and Zilberdik - An Arab resident of a refugee camp recounted the reason why his family left Israel in 1948 in an interview broadcast on PA TV on July 7, 2009: "The radio stations of the Arab regimes kept repeating to us: 'Get away from the battle lines. It's a matter of ten days or two weeks at the most, and we'll bring you back to Ein Kerem [near Jerusalem].' ...And now 50 years have gone by." Contrary to the Palestinian myth that hundreds of thousands of Palestinians were deported by Israel in 1948, the vast majority of the Arab exodus from Israel was voluntary, and the result of orders by the Arab leadership.