60 years on, Palestinians visit lost Jerusalem homes

Why don't they mention that most Arabs left because their own people told them to leave, indicating that they'd get all of the Jewish homes when the Arabs pushed them into the ocean.... how about the 1 million+ jews that were forced to flee from their homes in the Arab countries during the past 75 years....how about my great-great-great-great-great grandfathers home in europe that was lost during the Napolean war?

Please stop perpetuating your generations' hatred, and work towards peace in the land that the UN and the world tried giving you alongside of Israel 60 years ago that you refused; and then you refused again in '67 and then again in '73 and still now. You never miss and opportunity to miss and opportunity

How could the Arab residents of Jerusalem have been forced out by the Israelis in 1948?

In the War of 1948 Jordan (not Israel) took control of Jerusalem after chasing the UN out.

Israel had no access and Jews were not allowed in East Jerusalem until 1967.

The Palestinians were forced out or fled the Zionist terrorists.

Sam wrote:

The Palestinians were forced out or fled the Zionist terrorists.

Lol, so funny when people say "Zionist Terrorists". For one, Zionism ONLY means a Jewish state with Jerusalem as its capital, people seem to think its this giant plan, and terrorists? The UN forced out the palestinians in 1948, and on the same day Israel was declared a state, 5 arab countries attacked at once, now THATS terrorism, and btw, they lost :)

"Let the Israelis admit their wrongdoing in 1948," said Assaly. "Then there will be room for healing."

This man is absolutely right. It was reprehensible for Israel to defend itself against the five arab nations who attacked Israel unprovoked. How dare those Zionist terrorists refuse to allow themselves to be pushed into the sea? I mean, seriously, what is this world coming to when you a group of people will actually try to keep themselves from falling victim to genocide? Horrible I tell you, horrible! The solution to the Arab Israel conflict is so simple. Israel just needs to cease to exist! Those selfish Zionists!(for those of you who couldn't tell, this is sarcasm).

“Villages were frequently abandoned even before they were threatened by the progress of war”
- John Bagot Glubb, the commander of Jordan's Arab Legion in the Londion Daily Mail, August 12, 1948

"[Arabs]preferred to abandon their homes, their belongings, and everything they possessed in the world and leave the town.”
-Jamal Husseini, Chairman of the Arab Higher Committee, to the UN Security Council, referring to the Arab evacuation of Haifa, April 23, 1948.

“Arab officers ordered the complete evacuation of specific villages in certain areas, lest their inhabitants ‘treacherously’ acquiesce in Israeli rule or hamper Arab military deployments.”
-Benny Morris, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited

The UN resolution called for the returning refugfees to affirm that they would live in peace with their Jewish neighbors. They refused to recognize the existence of the Jewish state and maintained a state of belligerence. Aside from that, Israel conducted a family reunification program which, until the 1990's provided for the readmission of thousands of Arab who fled in 1948.The refusal to extend basic rights of citizenship to Palestinian refugees in the Arab world, simply reflect the contempt in which they are held by their hosts and the fact that the notion of Palestinian nationalism was created only as a means of leverage against Israel. Lest we forget, the term 'Palestinian' also applied to Jews before 1948.

http://www.trumanlibrary.org/israel/declare.h ...

Any Arab having a claim of confiscated property could bring that claim before a special Israeli court set up specifically for that purpose. Over 11,000 claims were resolved in this manner, resulting in the payment of over US$5 million and the transfer of over 20,000 acres of land. Jews lease land PURCHASED from Arabs by the JNF before 1948.

Can we see an article on the 850-thousand Jews allowed back into Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt, Iran and Yemen to visit their old homes?????????

Well said. Nakba is all about re-writing the history by Islamic terrorist regimes to fit the radical Islamic agenda of the destruction of Israel.
The Nakba is another cynical means by the US left wing liberal socialists and European countries that assisted in sending the Jews to the death camps during WWII to deny the Jews’ rights to live in security in their biblical and historical land since the Kingdom of David during 3300 years.
The name Nakba is a new vicious excuse by the Islamic terrorists under the Iranian regime and under Abbas for a new pogroms against the Jews with a new fraudulent anti-Semitic Jihad.
Now the US liberal socialist led by Hillary and EU are convinced that the lies of Hitler-Ahmadinajad and his Islamic terrorists justify the destruction of Israel and the killing of millions of Jews in cold blood in a new holocaust.
Radical Islam under the Iranian evil ‘head of the snake’ are re-writing and modifying history facts about the Syrian originated Islamic refuges that were told in 1948 to voluntarily leave their houses by the five radical Islamic armies of Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Jordan and “come back after all the Jews are killed” by them.
In fact, David Ben Gurion declared the Independence of the Jewish state in May 1948 based on 1947 UN resolution that gave part of the area to the Jews and other part to the Syrian originated Arabs that lived in Israel since 1850. However, the radical Islamic regimes declared war on the Jewish state in 1948 and send their five armies into Israel to kill the Jews in the name of the Saudi desert Jihadist Mohammad of the 7th century that called for the killing of the Jews and taking their land.
The facts that most of the Syrian originated Islamic Arabs stayed in their cities all over Israel during the last 60 years and enjoy equal rights, proves that the Jews never forced the Arabs to leave their homes but it was the radical Islamic armies that told them to leave their houses voluntarily.
A similar number of few hundred thousand Jews were expelled as refugees from radical Islamic countries like Iraq, Egypt and Syria and were settled in Israel.
Nevertheless, during 60 years the Jews offered money to the Arab refugees and in addition help to settle them in houses that was refused by them and the radical Islamic regimes. Nevertheless, the radical Islamic regimes refused to any settlement for their Islamic refugees and are intentionally keeping them 60 years in poor slams as ‘victims of the Jews’ with promises to come back, kill the Jews and take their land according to the Jihadist Quran as they promised in 1948.