Bilbo, let's assume the Israeli propaganda you got from the Jewish Virtual Library is all true and the objective assessments of Jewish and other historians and the actual historical record, the BBC monitoring radio broadcasts etc. is all wrong. Let's say the Arab armies did encourage the Palestinians to leave their homes. So what? Let's say some foreign army invades the south coast and the British government tell people living there to leave their homes as they'll be in the middle of a war zone and in great danger. So you leave your home and head north. After whatever military action is over you still own your home, right? You still own the land and the property. If that's the best excuse the Israelis have for ethnically cleansing a million Palestinians from their homes, mostly rounded up and put on trucks at gunpoint as is endlessly documented even in the memiors of former Israeli prime ministers who took part in the ethnic cleansing, then it's a pretty pathetic excuse, no?