A remarkable article by a Gazan journalist has just appeared at the Hamas website palinfo.com. It makes the case that the Arab states were responsible for the Nakba, because they persuaded so many Arabs to leave what was about to become a battlefield. 

On Nakba Day this year (May 15, 2022), Ibrahim Al-Madhoun, a Gazan journalist affiliated with Hamas, published an article on the Hamas website palinfo.com discussing the reasons for the Nakba and for the situation of the Palestinians today. Titled “The Nakba from a Different Perspective,” the article claims that the Palestinians left their homes and villages in 1948 in compliance with the advice of the Arab armies, who promised to fight on their behalf but failed to deliver on this promise.

This, he says, is what caused the Palestinians to lose their homeland.