In 1947 Palestine (west of the Jordan river) had a population of about 650,000 Jews and about 1.3 million non-Jews (Muslims, Christians, Druze, etc.) Moreover almost all Jews were recent immigrants. Before zionism Palestine consisted for only 3% of Jews. These were Arab Jews or mizrahim. During and after the British withdrawal in 1948 the Jewish settlers caused the expulsion of some 750,000 native non-Jewish Palestinians from their lands. Many fled to the surrounding countries, but many sought refuge in what are today the Westbank and Gaza.

Ethnic cleansing has been defined by many people as a variance of acts. Drazen Petrovic wrote, 'Ethnic Cleansing - An Attempt at Methodology' for the European Journal of International Law and defined it as "a well-defined policy of a particular group of persons to systematically eliminate another group from a given territory." I have chosen this particular person to quote as Petrovic is used by probably the best known academic who still clings to the absurdity of the 'ethnic cleansing' claim, Ilan Pappe. Pappe is quoted extensively by all those who seek to make use of this insidious claim. If this definition is reliable then Israel is perhaps the worst 'ethnic cleanser' in the history of man. Based on census figures and demographic trends, in 1947 there were most likely about 740,000 Palestinians living in the area formerly called Palestine. Today, the West bank, Gaza and the Arab citizens of Israel comprise a total of over five million Palestinians (including Israeli Arabs) and over nine million worldwide refer to themselves as Palestinian. SO the ETHNIC CLEANSING LIBEL is just that, a LIBEL.

THE QUR'AN SAYS THAT ALLAH GAVE THE LAND OF ISRAEL TO THE JEWS AND WILL RESTORE THEM TO IT AT THE END OF DAYS. THE QUR'AN SAYS: "To Moses We [Allah] gave nine clear signs. Ask the Israelites how he [Moses] first appeared amongst them. Pharoah said to him: 'Moses, I can see that you are bewitched.' 'You know full well,' he [Moses] replied, 'that none but the Lord of the heavens and the earth has revealed these visible signs. Pharoah, you are doomed.'" "Pharoah sought to scare them [the Israelites] out of the land [of Israel]: but We [Allah] drowned him [Pharoah] together with all who were with him. Then We [Allah] said to the Israelites: 'Dwell in this land [the Land of Israel]. When the promise of the hereafter [End of Days] comes to be fulfilled, We [Allah] shall assemble you [the Israelites] all together [in the Land of Israel]." "We [Allah] have revealed the Qur'an with the truth, and with the truth it has come down. We have sent you [Muhammed] forth only to proclaim good news and to give warning." [Qur'an, "Night Journey," chapter 17:100-104] SHAYKH PROF. PALAZZI COMMENTS: God wanted to give Avraham a double blessing, through Ishmael and through Isaac, and ordered that Ishmael's descendents should live in the desert of Arabia and Isaac's in Canaan. The Qur'an recognizes the Land of Israel as the heritage of the Jews and it explains that, before the Last Judgment, Jews will return to dwell there. This prophecy has already been fulfilled.