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Assess who or what is to blame for the Palestinian refugee problem
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There has been a significant Palestinian refugee problem for the last fifty years. It started during the fighting in 1948-49 between Israel and neighbouring Arab states, when around 700,000 Arabs fled from their homes in Palestine. Most of them went to the West Bank or the Gaza Strip. Large numbers also went to Syria, Jordan and Lebanon. It is estimated by the United Nations that today there are about 2,500,000 Palestinian refugees. In this essay I am going to assess who or what is to blame for the Palestinian refugee problem. Source A (written by the PLO in 1984) explicitly blames Israel. It says that the Jewish government deliberately murdered the population of Deir Yassin in order to scare Arabs into leaving their homes. It names the groups that were involved and their leaders; the Irgun lead by Menachim Begin, the Stern gang lead by Yitzhek Shamir and the Haganah. The...
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