Common Questions

Direct answers to the questions most often argued about online — each built strictly from this site's tagged, verified content, with the evidence shown and the genuinely disputed parts labeled as disputed. These are summaries: every answer links to the full documents beneath it.

Question	The short version
Did Arab leaders tell Palestinians to evacuate in 1948?	Documented in some places, unsupported in others — the full account has four mechanisms, not one
Were Jews expelled from Arab countries?	Yes — approximately 850,000 left under force and pressure, 1948–1978
Are Jews indigenous to the land of Israel — or European colonizers?	The archaeological and documentary record of Jewish origin in the land is overwhelming — and it coexists with real Palestinian roots
Was Palestine a country before 1948?	No sovereign state named Palestine existed — and that fact neither erases the people who lived there nor settles any modern question by itself
Is Israel committing genocide in Gaza?	Legally contested and unresolved — here is what is documented, what the ICJ actually said, and how to reason about the term

A note on method [ANALYTICAL FRAMEWORK]: these pages exist because most viral claims are compressed to the point of falsehood — in every direction. Each answer here deliberately includes the strongest documented point against the compressed version its own readers might prefer. If you find that uncomfortable in both directions, the method is working. To go deeper, start with the full contents; to challenge a claim, use Suggest a Topic.