ORIGIN OF THE REFUGEE PROBLEM - 1957
Regional Development for Regional Peace: A New Policy and Peace: A New Policy and Program to Counter the Soviet Menace in the Middle East - Public Affairs Institute, Public Affairs Institute, Washington, D.C. - 1957 · Economic assistance, American pp.236-241 https://books.google.com/books?id=TTPRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA236 ORIGIN OF THE REFUGEE PROBLEM FOR ten years, charges and counter charges of responsibility for the origin of the refugee problem have been voiced by the Arab States and their sympathizers on one hand and Israel and its sympathizers on the other. The exodus from Palestine took place under such chaotic conditions as to make it impossible to identify all of the factors which caused hundreds of thousands of people to flee from their homes. In the troubled period between December 1947 and December 1948 when the flight took place, there were undoubted acts of terrorism on both sides. These incidents, while isolated, were undoubtedly a factor in provoking some pa...