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Source: https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/liberal-zionism-and-michelle-alexander/
In the 1948 War, the Arabs Expelled Jews Wherever They Won
(Times of Israel) Peter Buchsbaum - New York Times columnist Michelle Alexander claimed on Sunday that it is a duty to protest against Israel just as Martin Luther King protested against the Vietnam War. Yet in her zeal, she shows a great deal of ignorance about the facts. She first claims that the Israel-Palestine conflict is one of the great moral crises of our time. But there are many moral crises today. The slaughter in Yemen, the imprisonment of Uighurs in China, the continuing depredations in the Congo, and Russia's annexations in the Ukraine all have a more devastating impact, in terms of lives lost or ruined, than the events in Israel. She repeats the lie that the Israelis somehow caused the expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians in 1948. There would have been no war and no displacement at all if the Arab countries had simply accepted the UN Partition resolution. Instead they chose to make war. In the course of this war, the Arabs expelled Jews wherever they won. The Jewish community in the Old City of Jerusalem was kicked out with an hour's notice, the Etzion bloc was destroyed, and earlier, the Jewish community of Hebron had essentially been annihilated by Arab riots. Can there be any doubt as to what would have happened to the Jews of Tel Aviv if the Arabs had won that war? The writer served as a judge of the New Jersey Superior Court from 2004 to 2013.