Peary.BS is airing these days a program summarizing or reviewing 50 years o war between Israel and its neighbors (yes, Deir Yassin is described as well, an Arab survivor's witness account is very interesting by itself, and explain the flight of so many that should not have fled).
One thing however, you should take into account, once the five Arab armies, plus the armed Palestinians forces, decided to annul by force the UN resolution, they accepted (de facto) the results of such action. If you attack your neighbor in order to get what is legally his (by the decision of the UN), you should also accept that if you lose, and cannot take what is not yours, you may lose some of what was yours. You do not hear much about Germany rights to Silesia or Japan's right to Sakhalin, do you?
In that PBS program, it is interesting to see the number of efforts that all the Israeli governments have carried on over those 50 years. Interestingly, the did not mention secret meetings between Golda Meyer and King Abdallah, but they do mention secret contacts from 1952 on with Egypt (on and off, mpore off, unfortunately).
By the way, here is what the Israeli are doing when one of their'sake the fatal mistake of acting too fast and hurting civilians without good justification:
03:22 Jan-17-02, 4 Shevat 5762
Soldier Facing Criminal Charges in Death of
Arab Woman
(IsraelNN.com) A soldier was indicted in a
military court, facing charges for the death of a
Shechem woman killed by gunfire in January 2001.
The soldier fired at the woman who he suspected
was trying to run a military checkpoint. The army
investigators ruled that his firing his weapon was in
contradiction to orders at the time and therefore,
he is facing charges pertaining to the shooting
death.
The incident occurred in the Shomron, near the
village of Beit Fouriq. 20-year-old Fatma Jamil
Abu-Jish was killed by the soldier’s gunfire.
Arafat could start and do the same with the sects under his control. After all, that is eactly what Ben Gurion did with Lehi and the Irgun within months of declaring independence.
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