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Wednesday, May 20, 2026

Links - 20th May 2026 (3 - General Wokeness)

Meme - "r/Libertarian
"My reasoning is at an 8-year-old level" is not the flex they think it is
Grosdoriane @Grosdoriane: ""How was the left radicalized?" Bro, I'm not radicalized. Literally all of my political views are just extrapolations of the most basic premises of human decency. Universal healthcare isn't "radical." I figured that one out when I was, like, 8 years old."
That’s great that you wanted people to have free stuff when you were 8 years old. Why haven’t you grown up since then? Maybe learned and expanded your worldview a bit? Researched new arguments. Used some experience from the real world as an adult Nope! You figured it out at 8 and you’re still on that level. “Now give me muh free healthcare! Wait… what do you mean my cancer treatment is scheduled for April 2027?? Hold up, why am I getting pamphlets about assisted $uicide?!?”"
When left wingers admit that their ideology is based around reasoning like an 8 year old child. Of course, if you disagree with the left wing agenda, you are not a "decent human being" becaise "human decency" means open borders, racial quotas and sterilising kids

National Post on X - "Professor denied tenure-track job for anti-DEI, pro-equality views won't get a hearing despite B.C. protections for political belief, writes Jamie Sarkonak"
Ben Woodfinden on X - "If you wanted a single illustration of how these kinds of tribunals exist to enforce a kind of regime ideology rather than a neutral legal institutions, this is a perfect example. A BC Human Rights Tribunal adjudicator has ruled that a professor who believes in formal equality, is sceptical of systemic racism, and opposes identity-based hiring does not hold a "political belief" worthy of protection. She couldn't see how views about systemic racism "relate to politics." The same adjudicator previously ruled that being a trans ally does constitute a protected political belief. Human rights law as an ideological sorting mechanism."
Human rights are not about human rights, but pushing the left wing agenda

captive dreamer on X - "We're now watching - in real time - leftist posters on here say that they never tried to get people fired for not respecting "pronouns," that they didn't redefine what it meant to be a "woman" and that COVID lockdowns "never happened." They're feeling pressed. They know its bad for them. This sort of stuff is becoming profoundly unpopular and they're hoping they can convince you that they weren't yelling at random people having dinner in restaurants during the Floyd riots or that nothing actually happened, nobody died, they didn't burn down city centers. Keep pushing them. Make them despair. And most importantly, do not let them control the narrative."
🐍 Ƥşץ𝕔𝔥𝕠pomp_Đ𝔦o̷͝ηуรǗ丂 ඏ on X - "And if you DO provide a long list of citations, they look at you like you’re crazy and tune out"
Kappy on X - "You don't have to go that far back even. They've been literally trying to say they didn't celebrate Trump's first assassination attempt and Charlie Kirk's murder. They've been trying to say they never supported mass immigration. They will lie about things that happened two months ago, two weeks ago, two days ago."

Melanie Bennet on X - "Canada’s former Islamophobia Czar taught educators using a racialized definition of Islamophobia and research tied to networks with documented Islamist links. The same approach Sweden just scrapped entirely while and the UK narrowed theirs to “anti-Muslim hostility” over free speech concerns."

Meme - Fugitive Caesar @ThomBrady5: "Leftists don't realize they already declared war on young white men, and we know it. Neither side will back down, one group will win and the other will lose. Leftists already locked smart young white men out of elite institutions for past decade with vicious discrimination."
"Coca-Cola Asks Its Workers to Be 'Less White' to Fight Racism
"White People Owe Us An Apology, But We Don't Owe Them Forgiveness"

UC Davis festival apologizes for alleged cultural appropriation - "Organizers of UC Davis’ Whole Earth Festival apologized after a group of drummers gathered near the Quad during the event allegedly disrespected Indigenous cultural traditions. “We acknowledge the harm of cultural appropriation felt by Indigenous communities because of this,” Whole Earth Festival staff said in a social media post Sunday, May 10, adding that they did “not associate with or condone the actions, cultural appropriation, and values exhibited by these individuals.”... This isn’t the first time WEF has apologized for offending festivalgoers. Separate from Sunday’s statement, WEF’s website includes a 2025 public apology from organizers, noting that “while the festival’s intentions were rooted in the interconnectedness of humanity,” some elements of the event had “commodified and misrepresented cultures of marginalized communities.” “We acknowledge that some art and vendor practices in the past have appropriated elements of Indigenous, Black, Asian, Pacific Islander, Latinx, and Middle Eastern cultures without honoring the communities those practices originate from,” the statement continued. “We also recognize that, fundamentally, these actions contribute to ongoing cycles of erasure and exploitation of cultures.”"
Clearly, drums were only ever used by Native Americans

NYC woman declined to press charges against subway shover 'because she didn't want to put another black man in jail'... weeks later he allegedly killed retired teacher, 76, at station - "A young woman in New York City said she declined pressing charges against a violent suspect because she didn't want to put 'another black man in jail,' weeks before he allegedly killed a 76-year-old retired teacher. The 23-year-old woman anonymously detailed how she and a friend narrowly escaped Rhamell Burke, 32, after he allegedly attacked them while riding the subway on April 2. The straphanger told the New York Post she now completely regrets her decision not to work with prosecutors after Burke was charged with murder on Friday for allegedly shoving 76-year-old Ross Falzone down a flight of stairs to his death at a subway station Thursday night. 'Maybe a part of me was just like, I don't want to put another black man in jail, but, you know, at some point, if you are a criminal, you're a criminal, and he was scary, he was a scary guy,' the unidentified woman told the outlet... police say Burke pushed Falzone down a staircase leading into the 18th Street subway station at 9.30pm while still wearing a hospital psychiatric bracelet. An investigation was launched into how the suspect was evaluated and discharged from Bellevue Hospital barely an hour after police brought him there on Thursday afternoon. Falzone suffered catastrophic injuries, including a traumatic brain injury, fractured spine, and broken rib. He was rushed to Bellevue Hospital - the same hospital Burke had been released from hours earlier - where he died shortly before 3am Friday... Authorities said Burke had already been arrested four times in just the past few months. His recent arrests included allegations of assaulting a Port Authority police officer on February 2, burglary on February 14, resisting arrest on February 25, and assaulting another person on April 2. Despite the repeated arrests, Burke had been granted supervised release after at least one of the incidents, according to police. According to the Post, he was eventually charged with assault for the April attack and granted supervised release at arraignment."
Elon Musk is a murderer of millions for exposing USAID fraud but if you put a black criminal in prison you're racist

Meme - Common Sense Extremists @crushmarxismnow: "Does that include the Native Americans who fought on the Confederates side? The final Confederate general to surrender to the Union Army...was Cherokee."
Austin MacNamara @gremloe: "Allowing the confederates and their lineage to survive was a mistake" *"Gerrymandering" [?] map*

Judge decries Canada for prioritizing foreign criminals over victims - "An Ontario judge has launched a remarkable attack on the Canadian judiciary, arguing that the justice system is “at an inflexion point” and must decide whether to prioritize the needs of vulnerable Canadians or criminals who have abused them. Article content Justice Antonio Skarica’s broadside on his fellow judges came as he sentenced a Nigerian university student who extorted a Canadian woman and left her in “constant fear” by sharing her intimate image. He sentenced Boss Omeire to 28 months in prison in Ontario’s Superior Court of Justice. “In my opinion, the Canadian justice system is at an inflexion point. Who should get priority: Should it be a foreign-born individual with no current immigration status, who was granted the privilege of attending one of our educational institutions, and used that opportunity to abuse a law-abiding, honest, hardworking but vulnerable Canadian citizen? Asking that question provides the obvious answer,” Skarica wrote in a recent decision."
If you're not allowed to criticise judges, then you can't criticise judges who criticise judges

What Is ‘Queer Food’? A Conference Explores (and Tastes) Some Answers. - The New York Times - "“The way you slice into okra and it’s crunchy and ooshy-gushy — a lot of people think it’s weird,” said Ms. DuBose, a nonbinary transgender lesbian who will soon graduate from the food studies program at New York University. “But okra is queer.”"
When you need an excuse to have a conference

FeministsAgainstAntisemitism on X - "‘A young Jewish woman was pressured by her CEO to accept being assigned a non-Jewish name at work, in the directory, email & office interactions to avoid offending clients. In Australia, where a trans person’s chosen gender & chosen name must be accepted to avoid offence. If I live to be 100 I will not get over today’s testimony.’ These are the words of one of our Australian followers in response to yesterday’s hearing of the Australian Royal Commission on Antisemitism. She adds, ‘I tried imagining the fallout if anyone had told India Willoughby that he had to use his male name. Then I realised I didn't have the brain capacity to hold the hypocrisy & insanity of both these things.’ One minority is expected to erase itself to avoid offence, while another is protected from offence by institutional force. That is a profound double standard. We say: antisemitism is not a burden for Jews to manage, but an entrenched conspiracy theory that society must confront."

Meme - Anna Khachiyan @annakhachiyan: "Empathycels are reliably the most stupid and unempathetic people in practice because their idea of empathy is something like "only for those I I already agree with or it's socially acceptable to support" when by definition it must be the opposite or it doesn't count (ie Lena Dunham, a liberal pro- choice feminist, writing a scene in Girls where you empathize more with the guy whose baby got aborted vs with the girl who got the abortion). Having "empathy for immigrants," in this case, means indulging all of their narratives and demands at the expense of everyone else, who you're not allowed to empathize with because it's not socially approved. Anything short of that is apparently deeming the entire lot of them "unworthy" Really, when people say you display insufficient empathy for immigrants or women claiming to be rape and abuse victims whatever other untouchable big tent group, what they mean is, you're making me feel bad."
blip @argue_machine: "I think people are shocked by your lack of empathy towards those you deem unworthy. For example, I find it funny when you are talking about an actor and less funny when you are talking about immigrants at-large"

‘Not all people of colour think the same’ - spiked - " Brendan O’Neill: You were heavily criticised when people heard that your company would be involved in the review of Covid-19 and how it has impacted on ethnic minorities. Some people suggested that BAME people would be unlikely to trust you. How did you feel when that reaction came?
Trevor Phillips: I have come to expect it from some sources. I felt mildly insulted because they had not even bothered to look at who I am. I am a scientist. My company is a data-science company. All the people who are yelling about credibility did not even bother to check out what I actually do for a living. I was a bit hacked off about that. If I am honest, what I was really angry about was this: people claim to be speaking on behalf of ethnic-minority people. Their claim, to be honest – let us put it generously – has yet to be proven by any recognised method of understanding representativeness. Those people are completely prepared to put the risk to ethnic-minority individuals in this country second to their political vendetta... Supposedly, groups of people from ethnic minorities up and down the country are shocked and disgusted, including presumably the thousands of people to whom I speak at small meetings every single year, none of whom has ever mentioned their disgust. We have a situation in which the media can be hoodwinked by small groups of people who happen to be dark skinned, and who claim that they speak for everybody.There are racial attitudes and racial attitudes. One of the ones I do not particularly like is the idea that all people of colour share the same view – and it happens usually to be the view that is being advanced by a particularly liberal perspective – and that anybody who is not of that point of view is somehow an evil traitor. It is probably best exemplified by Joe Biden saying that not simply anybody who voted for Trump, but anybody who could not make up their mind whether to vote for him or Trump ‘ain’t black’. I cannot think of anything more racially denigrating than the presumption your colour makes you absolutely certain to vote this way or that. I thought we had left all that behind. One of the things I think some of the more liberal white folks on this end really most hate about me is that I do not have to rely on their charity... Twenty years ago, we had a view about educational success, which essentially held that minority failure was down to teacher racism – sometimes subtle, sometimes explicit. I have never doubted that is a part of it. But actually, what we discovered through better data capture and more granular analysis is that it could not explain the fact that some people of colour actually did better than average, while other people of colour did worse than average. Thus, we had to change our minds about what was going on because we had better information... I freely admit that I change my mind all the time, because I know that what I currently believe can always be improved. Most people in politics go the opposite way. They see the data does not fit their theory, so they try to find some new data. On the question of what people think about me, other people can probably talk about this more authoritatively. But what I will say about it is this. One of the things that the British political elite really dislikes is a person of colour they cannot patronise. They really hate it. In the end, they like to approach a person of colour as somebody who is a supplicant. The few of us who are lucky enough not to have to be in that position are going to get it in the neck, because we do not go about appealing for sympathy... what they really want people of colour to be is useful stooges and pawns in the battle against capitalism or neoliberalism or whatever it is. Our job is to be downtrodden, oppressed, rebellious and the reason for revolution. And the minute we stop behaving like that, we are going to break that situation, and we become less useful to these people. That is why they hate it so much... A particular form of multiculturalism, which is what came to hold sway in this country, is actually an emanation of racism. When we first talked about multiculturalism, we were really talking about the politics of recognition... Where I think things went really wrong was when multiculturalism essentially got taken over by people who wanted to deploy ethnic-minority groups as part of their struggle, as part of Labour Party factionalism... Even today you see it – if the government has got to appoint a bunch of people to a board, they will rightly say, we need to make sure there is diversity, there are women, there are people from minorities. But they will go to some group which claims to be representative of minorities, but may have no idea at all about the retail business. They will tell them to find a brown face they can put at the table. And I think the reason I am constantly in conflict with people over this is that I want us to be treated in the same way, with the same respect, the same level of scrutiny as everybody else. I want our talents to be recognised for what we do, not what we look like. You could say there is a race-driven form of multiculturalism, and a capability-driven form of multiculturalism. If you believe people of colour have all sorts of great capabilities, and you have confidence that if people give us the chance we will do well, then you will believe in capability multiculturalism. If you think that basically black people are a bit dumb, and actually will only get a chance to do things if you give them the opportunity because of their colour, then you will go for the race-based multiculturalism."

Ray Honeyford: Racist or right? - "Ray Honeyford was the head teacher of a school in inner-city Bradford where more than 90% of pupils were non-white. But he had had enough of the prevailing educational beliefs. In 1984 he wrote an article for the right-leaning Salisbury Review, external which turned him into a figure of both hatred and hero-worship. Mr Honeyford dismissed what he saw as many of the ills of the educational legislation and attitudes of the time, arguing there were a "growing number of Asians whose aim is to preserve as intact as possible the values and attitudes of the Indian sub-continent within a framework of British social and political privilege, ie to produce Asian ghettoes". He also criticised "an influential group of black intellectuals of aggressive disposition, who know little of the British traditions of understatement, civilised discourse and respect for reason". In other words, multiculturalism - by Mr Honeyford's definition, allowing different cultures to remain separate within the same country - was wrong. He went on to attack political correctness as a force for holding back ethnic minority pupils. He was particularly keen that all children should be taught English as their main language from a young age, writing: "Those of us working in Asian areas are encouraged, officially, to 'celebrate linguistic diversity', ie applaud the rapidly mounting linguistic confusion in those growing number of inner-city schools in which British-born Asian children begin their mastery of English by being taught in Urdu." Mr Honeyford berated the "determined efforts of misguided radical teachers to place such as the following alongside the works of Shakespeare and Wordsworth - 'Wi mek a lickle date / fi nineteen seventy eight / An wi fite and wi fite / An defeat di state.' (From Inglan is a Bitch, Linton Kwesi Johnson)". Anticipating that he might be accused of "racisim", he added: "It is the icon word of those committed to the race game. And they apply it with the same sort of mindless zeal as the inquisitors voiced 'heretic' or Senator McCarthy spat out 'Commie'." The article went largely unnoticed for a couple of months before it was picked up by the mainstream press. Its language and sentiments caused a sensation. Bradford's then Labour Mayor, Mohammed Ajeeb, called for Mr Honeyford's dismissal. In April 1985 he was suspended from duty, but he appealed to the High Court and was allowed to go back to work in September. However, disgruntled parents and others formed an action group, with large-scale protests taking place outside the school. About half the pupils ceased to attend lessons. Mr Honeyford was given police protection. In December 1985 he agreed to retire early, with a pay-off of more than £160,000 from the council, admitting that "anxiety" was getting the better of him. He never worked as a teacher again. The case still divides those involved, some saying he had to go and others arguing that he was hounded out by a "hate mob" led by left-wing agitators. Mohammed Ajeeb stands by his actions more than a quarter of a century later. He told the BBC: "The article was very critical of the Muslim culture and the race relations situation in the city was not very good at that time... Mr Ajeeb refutes the idea that "the left" in Bradford and elsewhere tried to "drive out" Mr Honeyford. But, in a parliamentary debate held in April 1985, when the head teacher was under suspension, the Conservative MP Marcus Fox argued exactly the opposite. He called Mr Honeyford's views "a breath of fresh air in the polluted area of race relations", although speaking out had "brought down a holocaust on his head". Mr Fox added: "One would think that somehow in this day and age it was racist to teach English."... "Ray Honeyford was very popular with the parents at the school, but the campaign against him was very nasty. "Feeling was whipped up in the community. The Labour left was really powerful at the time. It did the whipping up. "The Labour left was upset that he made the case that young kids should learn English from the age of four or five. But that idea's become much more acceptable since then." In 2004, Trevor Philips, the head of the Commission for Racial Equality and a former Labour parliamentary candidate, asserted that children needed to be given a "core of Britishness". Multiculturalism, he argued, suggested "separateness". In words reminiscent of Mr Honeyford's, yet more delicately put, he said: "For instance, I hate the way this country has lost Shakespeare. That sort of thing is bad for immigrants." The irony was not lost on Mr Honeyford, who wrote in the Daily Mail the next year: "He is lauded for his wisdom. I was sacked for my alleged racism and was never allowed to work as a teacher again.""
From 2012. Even in 1984, it was racist to say that minorities had to learn the language of the country they were living in

Student stabbed to death with 'extremely large' knife after night out with football team in Southampton, court told - "A student was stabbed to death with an “extremely large" shastar knife on his way home from a night out, a court has been told. Vickrum Digwa, 23, was caught on phone footage saying "I'm a bad man" as 18-year-old Henry Nowak sent Snapchat videos to friends on 3 December last year, Southampton Crown Court heard. Prosecutor Nicholas Lobbenberg KC said Digwa "was carrying an extremely large knife in a sheath openly displayed over his clothing" which he used to stab the first-year Southampton University accountancy and finance student. He said as well as the 21cm shastar - the Punjabi word for weapon or knife - Digwa had a kirpan knife around his neck and under his clothing... Digwa denies murder and carrying a knife in public, while his mother Kiran Kaur, 53, denies assisting an offender by allegedly removing a weapon from the scene. The court heard Mr Nowak, from Chafford Hundred, Essex, had drunk less than the drink-drive limit during a night out with his football team. A video of the incident was found on Mr Nowak's phone which was discovered in Digwa's pocket, the jury was told... The prosecutor told the court: "At half-past midnight that night, Henry was dead, he had been fatally stabbed by Vickrum Digwa using that knife, the knife that Vickrum Digwa has chosen to carry out on to the street." Mr Lobbenberg said that Digwa denied stabbing Mr Nowak at the scene. He also claimed that "he had been racially abused and attacked by a drunken man". "Henry protested he hadn't attacked Vickrum Digwa, and he had been stabbed," the prosecutor added... The court heard a post-mortem examination found that Mr Nowak suffered four stab wounds and a cut to his jaw, with two of the wounds to the back of his legs."
Southampton student Henry Nowak stabbed with 21cm knife, trial told - "Jurors heard the attack was not witnessed, but neighbours heard Nowak say he had been stabbed and was dying, before trying to escape by climbing over a fence. A blood trail indicated he had already been fatally wounded, the court heard. The prosecution alleged Digwa then "chose to aggressively pursue him"... Lobbenberg said: "He didn't seek help for the man he had injured with his sizeable knife, instead he accused him of being a racist and being drunk." He added that police initially handcuffed Nowak and started giving him first aid when he then collapsed... Digwa's mother was later allegedly filmed removing the knife and taking it to the family home in nearby St Deny's Road, where it was recovered... Digwa claims he was racially abused and acted in self-defence"
Left wing logic: this is a 5 month old story so even though the trial is currently ongoing there's no point talking about it. Of course, when these cases first come up they claim that not all the facts are known so we shouldn't comment. Meanwhile, they keep obsessing over things that happened even further in the past, like Trump's 2024 accounting "felony" conviction, January 6th 2021, Jim Crow from the 1960s and slavery from the 19th century
To the British police, an alleged racist is the criminal, even if he's bleeding out from being stabbed. Because racism is the ultimate sin to the left wing - worse than murder

pagliacci the hated 🌝 on X - "“police arrest man who is bleeding to death because the stabber claimed he was racist” its literally impossible to satirize the UK anymore. even the most extreme, hamfisted memes are just real things that actually happen now"
Sikh privilege!

Meme - slaythegop: "been a pretty fucking rough 6 months. lost my job because I said Charlie Kirk's daughter was better off without a dad that would force her to carry a baby conceived via rape (normal stance), my boyfriend was cheating on me the entire time we were together, and my best friend started dating a republican and she isn't my best friend anymore. When I tell you I need a F U C K I N G break"
"Have you ever considered the fact that you might be a terrible person? Professional what? Is 'Piece of shit a job title?"
Damn right wing violence!

The True Nakba

Captain Allen on X

Why are there Palestinian refugees? In the months before the British abandoned its mandate & Israel declared independence, civil war raged as Arab factions tried to prevent the Jewish state from being born. Of course, had the Arabs agreed to the UN's partition plan, they would have had yet another state & there would have been no war in 1948. But their goal was not another Arab state; it was to ensure there would be no Jewish state. Meanwhile, 5 #Arab armies amassed on the borders & waited for the British to leave so they could push the Jews into the #Mediterranean Sea. As Secretary-General of the Arab League Azzam Pasha put it on the day of the Arab #invasion: "This will be a war of extermination & momentous massacre, which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades." Or as the then war #criminal & fugitive #Nazi Grand Mufti Amin al-Husseini put it during the invasion: "Murder the #Jews. Murder them all!" But before the invasion began, & starting as early as Dec 1947, Arab officers began ordering Arab residents of specific villages to flee. Their reasoning? Arab citizens not involved in active fighting could only: (1) "treacherously" abide the creation of a the Jewish state &/or even become citizens of same; or (2) be in the way of Arab #military deployments & potentially get caught in the crossfire. And so, for example, on this day (March 8) in 1948, the Arab Higher Committee ordered all Arab women, children & elderly to leave Jerusalem. The order continued, "Any opposition to this order ... is an obstacle to the holy war ... & will hamper the operations of the fighters in these districts.” In fact, the Arab Higher Committee ordered the evacuation of dozens of Arab villages between April & July of 1948 (see photo of Arab citizens fleeing below). Meanwhile, on April 19, 1948, Jewish forces secured Tiberias, which had a population of ~6,000 #Arabs - all of whom chose to leave. In fact, they left under British military supervision. The Jewish Community Council immediately issued a statement regarding Tiberias' Arabs: "We did not dispossess them; they themselves chose this course ... Let no citizen touch their property." At around this same time, in early & mid-April of 1948, an Arab faction led by Fawzi al-Qawukji was attacking Haifa & attempting to take the city. Then, rumors spread among Haifa's Arab community that Arab air forces were about to bomb the city & ~25,000 of Haifa's Arabs fled. As U.S. Consul-General in Haifa Aubrey Lippincott noted on April 22, 1948: "local mufti-dominated Arab leaders ... [urged] all Arabs to leave the city, & large numbers did so." On April 23, 1948, however, #Jewish forces fought back the Arab attack & retook Haifa. Three days later, on April 26, 1948, a British police report from Haifa noted: "[E]very effort is being made by the Jews to persuade the Arab populace to stay and carry on with their normal lives, to get their shops and businesses open and to be assured that their lives and interests will be safe." What were some of those "efforts?" Israel's first Prime Minister, David Ben-Gurion, sent future Prime Minister Golda Meir to Haifa with the direct instructions to "persuade the Arabs to stay." Ms. Meir was unsuccessful, however, as Haifa's Arabs told her they feared that if they stayed, they would be branded "#traitors." And so, another ~25,000 of Haifa's Arabs fled. Stop me if you've heard this one before, but despite facts on the ground, Arab leaders at the #UN began demanding the end to a fake "#massacre." Specifically, #Syria's UN Ambassador Faris al-Kouri, said the Jewish victory at Haifa was a "massacre" that provided "evidence that the '#Zionist program' is to annihilate Arabs within the Jewish state if partition is effected." The #British were still on the ground, however, & the British Ambassador to the UN, Sir Alexander Cadogan, told the UN the very next day both that the fighting in Haifa had only begun as a result of "continuous attacks by Arabs against Jews" & that the "reports of massacres & deportations [were] erroneous." Meanwhile, after Israel declared its independence & was invaded by five Arab armies, the newly established #IDF issued an Order on July 6, 1948, making it clear that non-combatant Arab civilians were not to be harassed or expelled, nor their villages touched. But the Arabs were being given a very different message. #Iraqi #PrimeMinister Nuri Said announced: "We will smash the country with our guns & obliterate every place the Jews seek shelter in. The Arabs should conduct their wives & children to safe areas until the fighting has died down." This used to be known. In fact, Arab leaders for years after the war had no qualms about repeating it. For example, Syrian Prime Minister Haled al Azm later wrote: "Since 1948, we have been demanding the return of the #refugees to their homes. But we ourselves are the ones who encouraged them to leave. Only a few months separated our call to them to leave & our appeal to the UN to resolve on their return." Similarly, #Jordan's King Abdullah wrote: "The tragedy of the #Palestinians was that most of their leaders had paralyzed them with false & unsubstantiated promises that they were not alone; that 80 million Arabs & 400 million #Muslims would instantly & miraculously come to their rescue." Similarly, Edward Atiyah, Secretary of the Arab League Office in #London wrote: "This wholesale #exodus was due partly to the belief of the Arabs, encouraged by the boastings of an unrealistic #Arabic press & the irresponsible utterances of some of the Arab leaders that it could be only a matter of weeks before the Jews were defeated by the armies of the Arab States & the #Palestinian Arabs enabled to re­enter & retake possession of their country.” Even as the war still raged on Aug 16, 1948, the Arab #Greek Orthodox Catholic Bishop of the Galilee told #Beirut newspaper Sada al-Janub: “The refugees were confident their absence would not last long, & that they would return within a week or two ... Their leaders had promised them that the Arab Armies would crush the ’Zionist gangs’ very quickly & that there was no need for panic or fear of a long exile.” A few months later, on Feb 19, 1949, the Jordanian newspaper Filastin confirmed: "The Arab States encouraged the Palestine Arabs to leave their homes temporarily in order to be out of the way of the Arab invasion armies." Even many of the Palestinian Arab refugees themselves admitted their reasons for leaving. For example, on June 8, 1951, Habib Issa admitted to #NewYork Lebanese newspaper Al Hoda: "Azzam Pasha assured the Arab peoples that the #occupation of Palestine & #TelAviv would be ... simple ... He pointed out that they were already on the frontiers & that all the millions the Jews had spent on land & economic development would be easy booty, for it would be a simple matter to throw Jews into the Mediterranean ... Arabs of Palestine [were told] to leave their land, homes & property & to stay temporarily in neighboring fraternal states, lest the guns of the invading Arab armies mow them down.” Similarly, Asmaa Jabir Balasimah recalled being told by Arab leaders to "evacuate the village & return after the battle is over," & that she & others in her village left all their possessions behind "based on the assumption that we would return after a few hours." Again, however (& most importantly), had the Arabs agreed to Partition or even agreed to negotiate different borders with Zionist leaders who begged Azzam Pasha to make any counteroffer instead of invading with #genocidal intent, there would never have been a single Palestinian #refugee. #Education #Israel #Palestine 

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