Quotation from Erskine Barton Childers “Not a single order, or appeal, or suggestion about evacuation … from any Arab radio station” — May 12 1961

BBC correspondent after 1960 for the Middle East, confirming for the first time the absence of Arab call to leave in 1948, based on radio archives.

Author : Thematic :
" There was not a single order, or appeal, or suggestion about evacuation from Palestine from any Arab radio station, inside or outside Palestine, in 1948. "There is repeated monitored record of Arab appeals, even flat orders, to the civilians of Palestine to stay put. "

Erskine Childers, The Other Exodus , The Spectator Magazine, London, May 12 1961, quoted by Nadine Picaudou, Les Palestiniens, un siècle d’histoire , ed. Complexes, Bruxelles, 1997, p.115.

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