''have been displaced'' BT ,some left on their own will. If there is fighting and there was in 1948,people become scared ,and they left. Google 'Palestine remembers', images. There you will photos of Arabs leaving without any soldiers there, they just left because of fear. ( Some could have been expelled because they fired on cars busses etc ) But most left.
Causes of the 1948 Palestinian exodus https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes...stinian_exodus
During the 1948 Palestine War in which the State of Israel was established, around 700,000 Palestinian Arabs or 85% of the total population of the territory Israel captured fled or were expelled from their homes by Israeli forces.
The causes for this mass displacement is a matter of great controversy among historians, journalists, and commentators.
In the first decades after the exodus two diametrically opposed schools of analysis emerged; Israel claimed that the Palestinians left because they were ordered to by their own leaders, who deliberately incited them into panic, to clear the field for the war, while the Arabs claimed that they were expelled at gunpoint by Zionist forces who deliberately incited them into panic.
( the idea was if all the Arabs left then Arab forces would come in and destroy the Jewish 'Haggana,' (Haggana means in Hebrew 'defence') or Jewish fighters at that time 1948.
According to Zionist historians, the Arabs in Palestine were asked to stay and live as citizens in the Jewish state. Instead, they chose to leave, either because they were unwilling to live with the Jews, or because they expected an Arab military victory which would annihilate the Zionists. They thought they could leave temporarily and return at their leisure. Later, an additional claim was put forth, namely that the Palestinians were ordered to leave, with radio broadcasts instructing them to quit their homes.
In a review in 2000, Philip Mendes pointed to the prevailing Jewish view being that "... it was an absolute fact that the Palestinian Arabs departed in 1948 at the behest of their own leaders, and that Israel desperately attempted to persuade them to stay
