Panic Arab Refugee Flight from Palestine, 1947-48
Dr. Norman Berdichevsky
Israel History War of Independence, 1948-1949 Photographs;Jaffa (Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel) Photographs. (Photo by Benno Rothenberg /Meitar Collection / National Library of Israel / The Pritzker Family National Photography Collection, CC BY 4.0)
The failure to place the blame and responsibility for the Palestinian refugee problem where it correctly belongs, on the Arab panic and during 1947-48, squarely on the divided and corrupt Arab leadership is easy to ascertain from eye witness accounts reporting internal intimidation, blackmail, arson, looting, and mass flight were and remain the norm in inter-Arab conflicts.











