Israel must stand firm to avoid annihilation

YOUR columnist Hermann Kelly (Irish Examiner, August 31) says 700,000 Arabs were expelled by Israel in 1948. This is a myth.

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Yes, 700,000 Arabs left the areas they lived in.

They were not expelled. They left with the promise by the Arab invaders that they would soon regain their own homes as well as taking over those of the Israelis when they were driven back into the sea.

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