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NEW YORK (WNS)—Herbert Bayard Swope l, in a letter to the Herald Tribune here, declared that Israel was not to blame for the plight of the Arab refugees , but that the situation developed as a result of insistence by Arab leadership that the Palestine Arabs go into exile in the fight against partition.

NEW YORK (WNS)—Herbert Bayard Swope l, in a letter to the Herald Tribune here, declared that Israel was not to blame for the plight of the Arab refugees , but that the situation developed as a result of insistence by Arab leadership that the Palestine Arabs go into exile in the fight against partition.

Mr. Swope quotes a recent issue of the London Economist as saying that Israel authorities in Haifa had urged all Arabs to remain in Haifa and guaranteed them protection and security . The author of the article in the London Economist said that so far as he knew, most of the British civilian residents whose advice was asked by Arab friends , told the latter that it would be wise to stay. The author of the article quoted by Mr. Swope said that the most potent factor in the Arab exodus was an announcement made over the air by the Arab Higher Executive, urging all Arabs in Haifa to quit, and that the reason for the order was that Arab leadership boasted that upon the final withdrawal of the British, the combined armies of the Arab states would invade Palestine and drive the Jews into the sea, and it was clearly intimated that those Arabs who remained in Haifa and accepted Israel protection, would be regarded as renegades. As further proof that the Arab exodus was the making of Arab leadership, Mr. Swope notes that  [[Jamal Husseini|Jamal Bey Husseini] told the Security Council on April 23, that the Arabs had begun fighting, that they would not submit to a truce, and that "they rather prefer to leave their homes in the town."</small></blockquote></ref> -- was the first armed conflict fought by the modern state of [[Israel]], with a total population of approximately 600,000, against the invading armies of the [[Arab]] nations of [[Egypt]], [[Syria]], [[Jordan]], [[Lebanon]], [[Saudi Arabia]], [[Iraq]], and other Arab militias.  About 6,000 Israelis died in the war, or fully one percent of the population, but the war ended in 1949 with a [[United Nations]]-brokered armistice.  As a result of the war, Israel grew by some 50% over the original Partition of British Palestine.  Some 800,000 Jews were expelled from neighboring Arab states and allowed to settle in Israel.

Mr. Swope quotes a recent issue of the London Economist as saying that Israel authorities in Haifa had urged all Arabs to remain in Haifa and guaranteed them protection and security . The author of the article in the London Economist said that so far as he knew, most of the British civilian residents whose advice was asked by Arab friends , told the latter that it would be wise to stay. The author of the article quoted by Mr. Swope said that the most potent factor in the Arab exodus was an announcement made over the air by the Arab Higher Executive, urging all Arabs in Haifa to quit, and that the reason for the order was that Arab leadership boasted that upon the final withdrawal of the British, the combined armies of the Arab states would invade Palestine and drive the Jews into the sea, and it was clearly intimated that those Arabs who remained in Haifa and accepted Israel protection, would be regarded as renegades. As further proof that the Arab exodus was the making of Arab leadership, Mr. Swope notes that  [[Jamal Husseini|Jamal Bey Husseini]] told the Security Council on April 23, that the Arabs had begun fighting, that they would not submit to a truce, and that "they rather prefer to leave their homes in the town."</small></blockquote></ref> -- was the first armed conflict fought by the modern state of [[Israel]], with a total population of approximately 600,000, against the invading armies of the [[Arab]] nations of [[Egypt]], [[Syria]], [[Jordan]], [[Lebanon]], [[Saudi Arabia]], [[Iraq]], and other Arab militias.  About 6,000 Israelis died in the war, or fully one percent of the population, but the war ended in 1949 with a [[United Nations]]-brokered armistice.  As a result of the war, Israel grew by some 50% over the original Partition of British Palestine.  Some 800,000 Jews were expelled from neighboring Arab states and allowed to settle in Israel.

==Arab threats pre 1948 war==

==Arab threats pre 1948 war==