the Palestineans are incompetent and just a pawn in great arab power struggles. Who gives a flying fook...cant take comedy too seriously!
Fatah and Hamas has killed much more on each other side than Israel combined.
The Arabs have distorted history so much that many people believe all the Palestinians left their homeland because they were driven out.
But independant and even Palestinian sources state that the majority of Palestinians willingly left their homes after the appeals of Arabic rulers, so the Arab militias and armies could conduct ethnic cleansing of Jews more systematically.
The Palestinians left with the anticipation that upon their return Palestine would be Jew-free.
But the Arabs miscalculated.
They lost the war.
'Of the 62,000 Arabs who formerly lived in [the Palestinian, now Israeli, city of] Haifa not more than 5,000 or 6,000 remained. Various factors influenced their decision to seek safety in flight. There is but little doubt that the most potent of the factors were the announcements made over the air by the Higher Arab Executive, urging the Arabs to quit... It was clearly intimated that those Arabs who remained in Haifa and accepted Jewish protection would be regarded as renegades' (The Economist, 2 October 1948)
'The mass evacuation, prompted partly by fear, partly by order of Arab leaders, left the Arab quarter of Haifa a ghost city.... By withdrawing Arab workers their leaders hoped to paralyze Haifa...' (Time, 3 May 1948)
'British authorities in Haifa have formed the impression that total evacuation is being urged on the Haifa Arabs from higher Arab quarters and that the townsfolk themselves are against it. ...' (Sir Alan Cunningham, High Commissioner for the Administration of Palestine, 28 April 1948)
'...local Mufti-dominated Arab leaders urge all Arabs (to) leave (the) city [Haifa] and large numbers are going... reportedly Arab Higher Committee ordering all Arabs (to) leave' (US Consulate, Haifa, 25 April 1948)
'The Arabs did not want to submit to a truce. They rather preferred to abandon their homes, their belongings and everything they possessed in the world and leave the town. This is in fact what they did...' (Jamal Husseini, Acting Chairman for the Arab Higher Committee for Palestine speaking before the UN Security Council, 23 April 1948)
'The removal of the Arab inhabitants... was voluntary and was carried out at our request... The Arab delegation proudly asked for the evacuation of the Arabs and their removal to the neighboring Arab countries.... We are very glad to state that the Arabs guarded their honour and traditions with pride and greatness.... When the [Arab]delegation entered the conference room [for negotiations with the Jewish authorities in Haifa] it proudly refused to sign the truce and asked that the evacuation of the Arab population and their transfer to neighboring Arab countries be facilitated. ...' (Arab National Committee of Haifa, memorandum submitted to Arab states, 27 April 1950)
'The Arab states which had encouraged the Palestinian Arabs to leave their homes temporarily in order to be out of the way of the Arab invasion armies, have failed to keep their promise to help these refugees...' (Falastin, Palestinian Arab newspaper, 19 February 1949)