In a formal cablegram to the UN Secretary General on May 15, 1948, the Secretary general of the Arab League declared that the Arab states rejected partition and intended to set up a "United State of Palestine."
Right, the Arabs wanted a democratic country in which Arabs and Jews lived side by side, the Zionists wanted an ethnically pure Jewish state. That was always the major source of conflict.
Approximately 720,000 Arabs, encouraged by their leaders to leave,
You are quoting sources which contain flagrant lies such as this, after I have already exposed this? This really puts your whole post into question. It is interesting that you disagree with Israeli intelligence of the time, which concluded that Arabs fled because of Israeli aggression and despite Arab pleas for them to stay. I suppose that is the kind of indoctrination one gets on a kibbutz.
Throughout 1947 and 1948 these Jews were persecuted. Their property and belongings were confiscated. There were anti-Jewish riots in Aden, Egypt, Lybia, Syria, and Iraq. In Iraq, Zionism was made a capital crime.
Exactly what I said. Arabs and Jews got along well, often better than Christians and Jews. Only when the Zionists came along with their racist notions did problems arise. Those problems became inflamed when it became clear that the Zionists had bribed and peddled influence in the West (Britain, U.S., UN, etc) so as to exclude the Arabs from the right of self-determination.
Tom |
