How playing for Shoah survivors can be 'political', I'll never understand.

First of all, the Arabs were exhorted to flee by their leaders with the promise that the Jews would be overrun, and then not only could the Arabs return, but they could steal the property that had belonged to the Jews who'd ostensibly be vanquished. After all, do you really believe if the Arabs knew their own leaders would stick them in refugee camps to rot until today, they would have fled? And please don't quote Ilan Pappe just because he's an Israeli. He's a historical revisionist who wouldn't know the truth if it jumped up and slapped him in his damned lying face.

"Arab attacks and Jewish counter-attacks, turned the city into a battle field. Some Jewish authorities, notably the mayor of Haifa and labor leader Abba Khoushi, as well as Hagganah high command, intervened to try to convince Arabs to stay, but the leadership explained that Arab higher committee members had left, the community was disintegrating as they talked, and there was nothing they could do. The case of Haifa is frequently cited by Zionists to show that the flight of the Arabs was not precipitated by the Jewish leadership, and that the Arabs left of their own accord or on orders from the Arab Higher committee. Even in Haifa, the reality was much more complex. The leaders departed. Armed gangs took over the streets and used them as bases for attacks on the Jewish quarters, and the Jews returned fire. The Irgun began looting in Arab quarters as well as conducting terror operations. Haifa was the only city in which Jewish leaders pleaded with Arabs to stay. "