Michael Espersen: Conclusion
During the class discussion I was asked how I would plot out the map, since I did not have it at the time. My answer was I would put the markers on where the Israeli army was positioned from the north and the south of the city before they engaged in a two pronged assault on the city from both directions, and then showing the direction of their advance as well as the final marker displaying the Jordanian side of the border where over 40,000 Palestinians (from both Lydda and Ramle, which were conquered at the same time) were forced to find refuge. I appreciated this question and it allowed me to show in a physical way the direction in which the Israelis carried out the attack. The most important part of the question, however, and the most significant takeaway, is that many of those people who fled the attack on Lydda continued their lives in Jordan, and their descendants still live, and are still unallowed to return to the land of their parents and grandparents by Israel. This is the true nature of the Arab-Israeli conflict in the modern day.