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Israeli Arab MP curses Arab leaders who told Arabs to leave Israel in 1948

Hassan Ibrahim blames Arab leaders for causing his parents to become refugees in 1948. Ibrahim Sarsur, Head of Islamic Movement in Israel, affirms and condemns. Phone interview with Hassan Ibrahim from Gaza city who recounts how his grandparents told him that in 1948 the district officer issued an...

PA TV: Question by refugee’s son to Arab Muslim leader, Ibrahim Sarsur: 
Son of refugee: "Mr. Ibrahim [Sarsur]: I address you as a Muslim. My father and grandfather told me that during the "Catastrophe" [in 1948], our District Officer issued an order that whoever stays in Palestine and in Majdel [southern Israel] is a traitor, he is a traitor."
Ibrahim Sarsur, then Head of Islamic Movement in Israel, now MP:
     "The one who gave the order forbidding them to stay there bears guilt for this, in this life and the Afterlife throughout history until Resurrection Day."

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