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To: combjelly who wrote (799911)	8/6/2014 11:32:30 AM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578012

The Palestinians didn't attack Israel........it was other Arab nations. To be fair, the Israelis and the Palestinians were engaged in a rather nasty civil war. There were ongoing tensions between the Palestinian Arabs and the Zionists ever since the Balfour Declaration in 1917 and fighting would break out from time to time.......most intensely during the 1930s and again when the UN Partition was announced. However, the 1948 war was mainly a war between the Arab states like Egypt and Syria and the new state of Israel. Did the Palestinians side with the Arab states? Of course. But to hold Palestinians ultimately and fully responsible for the war is in my book very unfair. But that's what the Israelis have done........they have used that war and the subsequent wars like a bludgeon against the Palestinians. Some would say as an excuse to take Palestinian land and water. The Jews did seem to have the upper hand as far as violence. They did wipe out entire villages. The Zionists were mostly urban Jews who were much better equipped and armed to carry on a civil war. The Palestinians were mostly farmers and ranchers. The two sides were unbalanced from the get go. I don't think its ever been a fair fight.