Honest question: Were they expelled, or did they flee? Or some of both?

I think the difference matters. "I'm not living with those people in charge" and then fighting for the better part of a century to throw them out, gets less sympathy from me than "they threw me out".

On the other hand, I have some sympathy for Cuban exiles, so maybe I'm inconsistent...

There's a Wikipedia page for you to read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nakba

Unbiased version: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Arab%E2%80%93Is...

>Honest question: Were they expelled, or did they flee? Or some of both?

Both, the fleeing was a direct result and the very intention of the massacres to achieve the ethnic-cleansing[1] of Palestinians. Those who fled were not only refused back onto their land and homes, but were also shot at and killed when they tried going back into their homes.

[1] The Masterplan for the Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3cnRcfp_us

I believe people here are capable of finding an article on Wikipedia on their own. I just highlighted that this person had some opinions that are pretty out there and implying "this is true because this guy said so" is not a good logic.

It's telling that a bunch of my comments were flagged. (The guy who pointedly suggested that I must be a Jew to have this view however wasn't.)