Considering that the New York Times has an agenda regarding the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, I did not take it as a surprise that the following letter was not published:
Dear Editor,
Nothing helps propagate conflicts more than institutions like Columbia University and the New York Times giving room to people like Rashid Khalidi to change historical facts. In his op-ed "What you don't know about Gaza" published Jan. 9, among the several falsehoods mentioned, there is one that has been adopted and propagated by Arab apologists since the early 50's, one that claims that Arabs where expelled from their lands by the Jews during the 1948 war that the Arabs themselves imposed on Israel. Several sources, including Arab newspapers from that time, confirmed that the Arabs were induced by their own leaders to leave their homes and join their brethren in the fight against Israel. Here is a quote from the Jordanian newspaper Falastin, dated February 19, 1949: "The Arab States encouraged Palestinian Arabs to leave their homes temporarily to be out of the way of the Arab invasion armies". Note that not only the article attributes the Palestinian exodus to the Arabs themselves, but it also refers to the "Arab invasion".
Having said that, it is also imperative to ask why the media never addresses the plight of the 850,000 Jews that were expelled from the Arab countries since 1948?
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