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To: Elroy who wrote (193245)	7/26/2006 3:04:38 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Respond to of 281500

Sure, it was the leaders who objected, just as it was the leaders of the Jews who partitioned. No, the Jews in the yishuv were organized and the great majority were Zionists. That made a huge difference in the event. The Jews thought of themselves as a nation and had self-organized. The Arabs did not think of themselves as a nation and were not self-organized. So when it came to war, all the Arabs who could afford to, left, and looked to other Arab armies for their salvation.