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Now I ask rhetorically, why exactly is it that 700,000 Palestinians fleeing or getting kicked out their land in the late 40s has in and of itself attracted orders of magnitude more international screeching and western leftoid sobbing and seething than all of the above combined?
real answer, because unlike most of these other examples on your list, israel didn't actually go all the way, they didn't actually reach a final solution to the arab question.
the germans that were driven from prussia settled in what remained of germany
the poles that were driven from eastern poland settled in what remained of poland
but the arabs driven from palestine didn't all settle in any of the other arab states, instead they remain in political limbo to this day, most sitting in their west bank and gaza ghettoes whose legal status is unclear, with others rotting in permanent refugee camps in other states because none of their arab neighbors really want them as citizens. and then the world keeps talking about "two state solution" memes while de facto they have a semi independent state in hamas controlled gaza and also separately from that a bantustan in the west bank with a toothless clown government.
it's all a mess, no closure, no clarity, no real way forward, nobody really knows where things are going. it's an unresolved situation, ever since 48. that's why it attracts so much more attention and screeching, because unlike all those other ethnic cleansings, this one basically keeps going on in ultra slow motion for decades.