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1. What the records actually say about “orders to leave”

There is no consensus in these sources that Arab leaders generally instructed Palestinians to evacuate to enable mass killing of Jews. Jewish Agency and Israeli proclamations invited Arabs to stay as citizens ^[4], while contemporaneous evidence and later scholarship document a mix of forces — including direct expulsions by Israeli forces, psychological warfare, and some local Arab instructions — contributing to flight ^{[1] [2]}.

2. Scholarship: expulsions, fear, and competing explanations

Most modern scholarship summarized here treats the exodus as multi-causal. Wikipedia’s survey of causes notes that “most scholarship today agrees that expulsions and violence, and the fear thereof, were the primary causes” and lists expulsions, massacres, and psychological warfare among central drivers ^{[1] [2]}. The Institute for Palestine Studies likewise describes phased departures, links Israeli policies and operations to substantial displacement, and highlights refusal by Israeli authorities to permit returns after August 1948 ^[5].

3. The argument that Arab broadcasts or orders caused the flight

Claims that Arab radio broadcasts instructed mass evacuation have been challenged. Le Monde diplomatique’s review of historic broadcasts finds such claims were “invented for pure propaganda” in some cases, and scholars like Benny Morris examined Israeli intelligence reports showing complex causes ^[3]. The Jewish Virtual Library and other pro-Israel sources emphasize that some Arab authorities did urge limited evacuations (e.g., women, children) in particular areas and stress voluntary departures — arguing the overall narrative of mass Arab orders is inaccurate ^{[4] [6]}.

4. Evidence of expulsions and massacres increasing flight

Several sources record incidents that directly prompted flight. The Causes of the 1948 Palestinian expulsion and flight article lists massacres (Deir Yassin among others), destruction of villages, and operations by Zionist forces as factors causing Palestinians to flee or be expelled ^[2]. Vridar’s analysis and other critical accounts assert that a large share left in response to Israeli actions, with some estimates (from particular historians) attributing high percentages of the exodus to those operations ^{[7] [3]}.

5. Numbers and comparative population movements

Estimates vary but are large and contested. Sources here report roughly 700,000 Palestinians displaced by 1949 ^{[2] [8]} and document that hundreds of Arab villages were depopulated ^[9]. At the same time, hundreds of thousands of Jews left or were expelled from Arab countries after 1948 and many immigrated to Israel — figures cited include roughly 250,000 from Arab countries between 1948–1951 and broader estimates of several hundred thousand over subsequent years ^{[10] [11]}.

6. Where the “orders to leave so Arabs could kill Jews” claim fits — and why it’s misleading

None of the reviewed sources present credible evidence that Arab leaders issued a coordinated, region-wide directive telling Palestinian civilians to leave specifically to enable Arab armies to commit mass killings of Jews. Instead, the sources portray a contested, chaotic wartime environment with mixed messaging, localized evacuations, combat operations, terror, propaganda, and expulsions by Israeli forces — all contributing to displacement ^{[1] [4] [2] [3]}. Claims that invert these documented causal strands into a singular Arab-instigated plan to “kill the Jews” are not found in the materials provided; available sources do not mention any such coordinated Arab directive as the primary or sole cause (not found in current reporting).

7. Takeaway for readers

Historical responsibility for the 1948 refugee crisis is disputed: many scholars and documents cited here place large responsibility on military actions and expulsions tied to Zionist/Israeli forces ^{[1] [2]}, while some narratives emphasize voluntary flight, localized Arab evacuation orders, and panic ^{[4] [3]}. Readers should treat broad, simplifed claims about a single side ordering mass flight to enable genocide as unsupported by the cited material, and instead recognize the complex, multi-causal, and highly contested nature of the 1948 exodus documented across these sources ^{[1] [2] [5]}.