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In a feat of scholarship entitled "How Many Palestinian Arab Refugees Were There'", Efraim Karsh trounces the inflated figures and calculates the true number of Palestinian Arabs who fled their homes in 1948. His article appears in the current month's Israel Affairs (http://www.jidaily.com/R8Gtt/e) Asa point of interest, I'd like to point out that Sir Raphael Cilento (pictured), mentioned in the article, was an Australian and well-known, I'm afraid, as a judeophobe, linked in later life to the far right Australian League of Rights. Here's Karsh's long and footnoted piece, complete with demographic tables and footnotes: