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Politics : Israel to U.S. : Now Deal with Syria and Iran -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jane4IceCream who wrote (8132)	5/4/2005 9:31:02 AM
From: Emile Vidrine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 22250

Israeli Historians Admit Ethnic Cleansing..................................... Israeli historian Benny Morris writes in the Jewish bimonthly, Tikkun (March/April 1998): "While the Yishuv's leadership formally accepted the 1947 Partition Resolution, large sections of Israel's society - including...Ben-Gurion - were opposed to or extremely unhappy with partition and from early on viewed the war as an ideal opportunity to expand the new state's borders beyond the UN earmarked partition boundaries and at the expense of the Palestinians." And British historian Henry Cattan notes that, ".before any possible intervention by Arab states, the Jews, taking advantage of their superior military preparation and organization, had occupied...most of the Arab cities in Palestine before May 15, 1948." [17] Thus, "from April on, Palestinian Arabs were the target of a series of concrete expulsions," writes Morris. [18] Another historian notes that perhaps half the eventual total of 750,000 or so Palestinians who became refugees was expelled in this civil war period [19] The ease of Zionist conquest in the first war is not at all surprising, for not only did the outside Arabs not enter this first war, the Palestinians were in no position to effectively resist. The Palestinians had waged a determined anti-colonial campaign against the British in 1938, but were ultimately brutally crushed, and more than 10% of the adult male population was immobilized. For this and other reasons, the Palestinians "entered the fighting.with a deeply divided leadership, exceedingly limited finances, no centrally organized military forces.and no reliable allies." [20] Jewish militia, on the other hand, was powerful, organized, and prepared. In 1943 British commander Harold Alexander remarked, "[The] Jews mean business and are armed and trained". [21] These revelations alone completely undermine the Zionist narrative. Even the entry of the surrounding Arab states by May 15, 1948, which occurred as the Zionists were expanding far beyond the partition lines, did not change the basic military equation. Prominent Israeli 'new historian' Avi Shlaim writes, ".at each stage of the war, the IDF outnumbered all the Arab forces arrayed against it, and, after the first round of fighting it outgunned them too." (emphasis added) Thus the character of the 'monolithic Arab hordes', as concocted in Zionist propaganda, was reduced only to this on the eve of their entry: "All these states.sent only an expeditionary force to Palestine, keeping the bulk of their army at home" and were "hampered by.poor leadership, poor coordination, and very poor planning.".