In the 1980s Israel and United Kingdom opened up part of their archives for investigation by historians. This favored a more critical and factual analysis of the 1948 events. As a result more detailed and comprehensive description of the Palestinian exodus was published, notably Morris' The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem.[5] Morris distinguishes four waves of refugees, the second, third and fourth of them coinciding with Israeli military offensives, when Arab Palestinians fled the fighting, were frightened away, or were expelled.

A document produced by the Israeli Defence Forces Intelligence Service entitled "The Emigration of the Arabs of Palestine in the Period 1/12/1947 – 1/6/1948" was dated 30 June 1948 and became widely known around 1985.

The document details 11 factors which caused the exodus, and lists them "in order of importance":

    Direct, hostile Jewish [ Haganah/IDF ] operations against Arab settlements.
    The effect of our [Haganah/IDF] hostile operations against nearby [Arab] settlements... (... especially the fall of large neighbouring centers).
    Operation of [Jewish] dissidents [ Irgun Tzvai Leumi and Lohamei Herut Yisrael]
    Orders and decrees by Arab institutions and gangs [irregulars].
    Jewish whispering operations [psychological warfare], aimed at frightening away Arab inhabitants.
    Ultimate expulsion orders [by Jewish forces]
    Fear of Jewish [retaliatory] response [following] major Arab attack on Jews.
    The appearance of gangs [irregular Arab forces] and non-local fighters in the vicinity of a village.
    Fear of Arab invasion and its consequences [mainly near the borders].
    Isolated Arab villages in purely [predominantly] Jewish areas.
    Various local factors and general fear of the future.[6]

Morris, with others of the New Historians school, concur that Arab instigation was not the major cause of the refugees' flight.[21] As regards the overall exodus, they state that the major cause of Palestinian flight was instead military actions by the Israeli Defence Force and fear of them. In their view, Arab instigation can only explain a small part of the exodus and not a large part of it.[22][23][24][25][26][27] Moreover, Morris and Flapan have been among the authors whose research has disputed the official Israeli version claiming that the refugee flight was in large part instigated by Arab leaders

Khalidi illustrates the psychological warfare of the Haganah by the use of the Davidka mortar. He writes that it was a "favorite weapon of the Zionists", which they used against civilians: "the Davidka tossed a shell containing 60 lbs. of TNT usually into crowded built-up civilian quarters where the noise and blast maddened women and children into a frenzy of fear and panic."[175]

Various authors mention specific cases in which the Yishuv engaged in shelling of civilians:

    Morris says that during the battle of Tiberias the Haganah engaged in bombarding the Arab population with mortars[181]
    Morris says that during the exodus of Haifa a primary aim of mortar barrages was demoralisation: "The Haganah mortar attacks of 21–22 April were primarily designed to break Arab morale in order to bring about a swift collapse of resistance and speedy surrender.... But clearly the offensive, and especially the mortarring, precipitated the exodus. The three inch mortars 'opened up on the market square [where there was] a great crowd ... a great panic took hold. The multitude burst into the port, pushed aside the policemen, charged the boats and began to flee the town', as the official Haganah history later put it."[182] According to Pappé[183] this mortar barrage was deliberately aimed at civilians to precipitate their flight from Haifa.
    Nathan Krystall writes: "As a precursor to its attack on Qatamon, the Zionist forces subjected the neighborhood to weeks of heavy artillery shelling. On 22 April, the Arab National Committee of Jerusalem ordered its local branches to relocate all women, children, and elderly people from the neighborhood."[184]
    In his report concerning the fall of Jaffa the local Arab military commander, Michel Issa, writes: "Continuous shelling with mortars of the city by Jews for four days, beginning 25 April, ... caused inhabitants of city, unaccustomed to such bombardment, to panic and flee."[185] According to Morris the shelling was done by the Irgun. Their objective was "to prevent constant military traffic in the city, to break the spirit of the enemy troops [and] to cause chaos among the civilian population in order to create a mass flight".[186] High Commissioner Cunningham wrote a few days later "It should be made clear that IZL attack with mortars was indiscriminate and designed to create panic among the civilian inhabitants."[186]

One prominent fact i have learnt about moslems, is that [without exception, to my perception] moslems are shameless, shameless liars.

"The Undercover Mosque: The return"

[...from the UK]
"A group of Christians visiting the mosque and the preacher and the Women's Circle treat [the Christians] kindly and talk about,

'We're all people of the book and we all come from the same history'."

ABC Radio National Religion interview transcript  - "The Undercover Mosque: The return"
".....Stephen Crittenden: .....your program highlights a certain kind of duplicity. When they're caught out, individuals don't miss a [beat], they just say they've been taken out of context....
David Henshaw: ......Regent's Park Mosque is officially committed to inter-faith dialogue....."

But the argument that you [as a moslem would make] is that you contest/contend that the Jews re-wrote the Old Testament bible, so as to favour their own claims to that land ?

The land belongs to God.

The God of Israel.