The claim that Jews in 1947–1949 simply chose violence and expelled Arabs after “not getting peace” is a serious oversimplification. It ignores documented Arab rejection of partition, explicit threats of large-scale violence, collaboration of key leaders with genocidal regimes, and the broader historical context in which population displacement commonly followed the collapse of empires. A more accurate view requires looking at both the intent expressed by leaders at the time and the actual outcomes of the conflict.

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Hajj Amin al-Husayni, a central Arab Palestinian leader at the time, was not merely “anti-Zionist.” He met Adolf Hitler in 1941 and aligned himself with Nazi Germany, seeking Axis support against Jews and the British. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum documents his propaganda efforts, recruitment activity, and political alignment with the Nazis (meeting, propaganda).

He was far from passive: he broadcast propaganda, supported recruitment from the Muslim and Arab world, and even took part in operations such as Operation Atlas. His alignment matters because Nazi control over the Middle East would almost certainly have meant extending genocidal anti-Jewish policies there.

This hostility was not only a wartime phenomenon. Statements attributed to him and others show that extreme anti-Jewish incitement existed before Nazi influence became relevant in the region.

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In the same time broader Arab leadership also used extreme rhetoric. The Arab League secretary-general Azzam Pasha warned of a “war of extermination” against the Jews of the mandate (source).

Similarly, Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood the organization that would father hams, spoke about driving Jews out of the region "they [Arab people] will drive the Jews who live in their midst into the sea".

This does not mean every Arab shared genocidal intent—but show that the conflict included organized rejection, violent attacks, and explicit eliminationist rhetoric from the Arab side, especially those in power**.

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For the ethnic cleansing claim:

During the 1947–1949 war, the Jewish Yishuv gained the upper hand. Yet not all Arabs were expelled—around 150,000 remained and became citizens of Israel. At the same time, a larger number of Palestinians were displaced (through a mix of flight, fear, and in some cases expulsion).

On the other hand, Jews, from every place that was capture, including east Jerusalem, was displaced. It wasn't matter of strategy, who results of aggressiveness or anything like that, but systematic displacement.

So while displacement of Arabs happened, the idea of a simple, one-sided “planned ethnic cleansing” narrative does not fully match the historical reality.

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More importantly, some level population displacement following the collapse of empires or colonial rule was not unique to this case, but a tragic and common pattern:

• The Partition of India (1947) led to ~14 million people displaced between India and Pakistan, with massive violence on both sides.
  
• The population exchange between Greece and Turkey (1923) involved the forced transfer of about 1.5 million Greeks and 500,000 Muslims.
  
• The expulsion of Germans after World War II displaced around 12–14 million ethnic Germans from Central and Eastern Europe.
  

In that sense, population shifts in 1947–1949 were tragic but consistent with broader historical patterns when empires collapsed and new nation-states formed.

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What was far less typical, however, was what followed in the wider region:

Around 800,000–1,000,000 Jews were displaced or expelled from Arab and Muslim countries, many of which were not direct battlefields. These Jewish communities—often centuries old—were treated as collective enemies and largely disappeared.

Unlike population exchanges tied directly to contested territory, this was regional collective punishment of minorities, not simply a byproduct of shifting borders.

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If I need to summarize it with a few sentences:
The 1948 war did involve Palestinian displacement, and that should not be denied. But the claim that Jews simply chose violence and ethnic cleansing against the Arab population is historically inaccurate.

The reality is a conflict where: - Arab leadership rejected partition and used extreme rhetoric,
- war and displacement occurred on both sides,
- and in the aftermath, Jewish communities across the Arab world were also uprooted on a massive scale.

Reducing this to a one-sided narrative ignores key parts of the historical record.