Trump's revolutionary plan for Gaza has generated many responses of all kinds. Among the responses have been those of the Arab world which has reacted in a predictable way of being against it.
One of those responses included something astounding that I'm surprised no one noticed.
The president of Egypt, El-Sisi, responded to President Trump's plan in a speech he gave. The video of this speech is on YouTube. Here is the link to the video.
The astonishing remark he made is in the first twenty seconds, in case anyone wants to watch it. I will transcribe the important part here.
In his speech he talks about how he is against Trump's plan to move all the residents of Gaza to other countries for the duration of the restoration of the area. He says he is against this plan, even if it is only a temporary transfer of the population, because this (moving the local Arab population with the intention to have them return) has happened before and they couldn't go back, and he does not want history to repeat itself. "...when they were displaced before ... they did not return to places they were assured that they could return to ...".
What is he talking about?
The displacement of the Palestinians was what happened in 1948. But what does he mean when he says that they were assured they could go back? What is that all about? Who assured them they could go back when they were being displaced?
I'll just mention a few historical facts about this event so that we're all on the same page. On November 29, 1947, the UN decided to partition the area that the British were occupying into a Jewish state and an Arab state. The Jewish people accepted this and the Arabs did not. The local Arabs started attacking the Jewish residents the day after the decision in an attempt to prevent the creation of the state of Israel and a war started. The British left the area on May 15, 1948, and Israel declared its independence that day. The day after that armies from five Arab countries attacked the day-old country with the intent to destroy it and that started the 1948 war.
During the two parts of the war, from 1947 until 1948, many of the local Arabs in the area left their homes
The widespread narrative that has been promoted is that the Palestinians were forced out of their homes by the Israeli forces.
Now if we go back to El-Sisi's words - he said that the Palestinians, when being displaced, were assured that they could go back to the places that they were displaced from.
Surely the Israelis, forcibly banishing them from their homes, as is described by the widespread narrative, wouldn't assure them that they could go back? That would make no sense.
So what is he talking about?
He is talking about something that anyone who has researched this topic earnestly knows. The vast majority of the Arabs fled their homes of their own accord. Some did this out of fear of being caught in the war zones and many did it due to being told by the Arab leaders of the invading countries to do so. They promised them that they would destroy Israel within a week or two and that they would then be able to return to their homes. As everyone knows, Israel won the war so that never happened.
That was what El-Sisi was referring to. The president of Egypt literally confirmed in his speech that the propagandistic narrative of the Israelis forcing the Arabs out of their homes in 1948 is a lie. And that what actually happened was that the Arab leaders told the local Arabs to leave and assured them that they could return later.
There are many testimonies by Arabs who have said that they were told by Arab leaders to evacuate their homes for the duration of the war.
Here is a link to a video with some such testimonies. There is an interesting surprise in the video - a testimony by someone who anyone interested in this conflict will easily recognize).
https://x.com/OGAride/status/1658343098391339008
What is remarkably interesting is that there are no testimonies by Arabs saying that they were forcibly removed from their homes by Israelis in 1947-1948. I'm pretty sure that if they existed they would have been endlessly publicized. The fact that nothing like this has ever been presented inevitably proves that there isn't such a thing.
So there is literally no evidence of this narrative anywhere. While at the same time there is much evidence that what caused the displacement of Arabs in 1948 was that they fled their homes of their own accord or because of orders from the Arab leaders of the countries that invaded Israel.
Exactly like El-Sisi described.
It's fascinating how something that is a fabrication, that literally has no evidence, has taken hold of the narrative. Much like the people who insisted on believing the Earth was flat when faced with Galileo's scientific discovery, I'm sure people will hold on to this false narrative even when faced with unequivocal evidence. But regardless of how many people deny it, the truth will emerge.
More historical facts regarding this topic, including quotes from international newspapers from that period and books written by known Arab figures, can be found here.
https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/myths-and-facts-the-refugees
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