Both cases, printed in the same year: 1958One year, taken whole, both arguments · 1958
1958
Both cases, printed in the same year: 1958
Every 1958 clipping in the collection, in order, on both sides of the argument.
In 1958 American papers carried the case that Palestinians had been expropriated and forced out, and the case that they were never really Palestinian and left because their own leaders told them to. Both ran in full.
“Palestinian” Patriots
The quotation marks are the headline’s own. most of the so-called Palestinian Arab refugees are probably not Palestinian at all
. And the sourcing chain, named: a British-run station which gave strong encouragement to the exodus that created the Arab refugee problem.
Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle
Needs of Palestinian Arab Refugees Are Ignored by the UN and the World
Dorothy Thompson, syndicated. these victims of the partition of Palestine, forced out of the land of their ancestors to make room for a new immigration from elsewhere
… But to do anything for Arabs is an unpopular cause.
Jackson Citizen Patriot
Palestinian Arabs Still Expect to Regain Homes
The Associated Press, on a card worth a dollar fifty a month. Issued by the UN, it implicitly recognizes that he has been dispossessed
… When an Arab dies in a refugee camp, his family may bury him secretly and continue to draw his rations.
Herald News
Refugees Pin All Hopes on Nasser
Scripps-Howard, from Jericho. Inside the mud brick hut he untangled a muddle of old clothes and shook two objects out on the matted floor. One was a key to his abandoned house in Jaffa, Israel.
Four paragraphs later, both explanations in one breath: The refugees claim they were driven out at Israeli bayonet point. The Israelis say they fled with no urging
. Washington Daily News