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To: Noel de Leon who wrote (99792)	6/1/2003 5:27:47 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Noel, why don't you read some history books on the war, instead of relying on pro-Palestinian reader's digest web sites? Between November 1947 and May 1948, there was an internal war inside Palestine, as the Hagannah fought the guerilla forces of Abdul Khader Husseini, who were beseiging Jerusalem. On May 14, 1948 the Mandate ended and the armies of Syria, Iraq, Transjordan and Egypt attacked. There was already fighting when Ben Gurion read the Declaration of Independence; in fact, Jerusalem came very close to starving during this period. There was fierce fighting to reopen the road to Jerusalem. Deir Yassin was one of these battles. The Arabs promptly said that the Irgun massacred innocents; the Irgun pointed to their own wounded and said they were fighting Iraqi soldiers in the village. There was clearly some sort of massacre, which the Arabs then broadcast throughout Palestine, thus helping to foment the very panic they were trying to avoid. The crucial fact that your reader's digest websites don't mention, is that the Yishuv was well organized and had their backs against the wall, whereas Palestinian society was disorganized, leaderless (the "effendi class", as the British still called them, had skipped town to wait out the war), and was relying on 'big brother' - five Arab armies - to take care of the Zionists for them. Of course, if the Arabs had won, they would have divided the territory of Palestine between them. No Arab had learned to talk of "historic Palestine" in 1948, they were still talking about "historic Syria".