The Peace Process

The Arab League waited until the end of the British Mandate to take action to stop the Zionist aggression. U.N. Charter Article 52 gave them the right and duty to do so, to protect the lands which were designated for the Arab state from being invaded and seized by the Zionists.

Camel herder, it was the UN that issued their resolution 181 calling for Israeli statehood in 1947.

In attacking the Jews one day after issuance of res. 181, adopted by a majority of the UN General Assembly, it was the Arab savages who violated the UN Charter and committed an act of war.

I know Arabs are incredibly ignorant, Habib, but, you really need to open a history book.

Old Arab adage: "Thinking is infidelity"
 
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Benny Morris gets his history a bit muddled, as do most Zionists.

Q: When did the Arab states declare war?
A: On May 15, 1948.

Wrong, camel herder. Arabs attacked the Jews on Nov. 30, 1947, one day after issuance of UN Res. 181.

Plan Dalet was formally adopted by Zionist leaders on March 10, 1948. Its stated objective was to "gain control of the areas of the Hebrew state and defend its borders" and that "it also aims at gaining control of the areas of Jewish settlement and concentration which are located outside the borders.


Camel herder, you have not even read Plan Dalet. Plan Dalet was a DEFENSIVE plan to prevent Arab aggression against Jews, NOT an offensive plan. And, Palestine was Ottoman Turkish land, not Arab land. The Turks transferred sovereignty to the Jews via the Treaty of Sevres, the San Remo Resolution and Palestine Mandate.

Arabs were never landowners, just backward, indigent tenant farmers. Like today.

I know one-third of all Arabs are illiterate, according to the Arab League, but, surely, Habib, you can at least try to read.

Benny Morris is the acknowledged authority on the 1948 War and his book, "1948," is the definitive study of the war. You're done, Habib.
The Palestinian Arabs were not responsible in some bizarre way for what befell them in 1948. Their responsibility was very direct and simple.

In defiance of the will of the international community, as embodied in the UN General Assembly Resolution of November 29th, 1947 (No. 181), they launched hostilities against the Jewish community in Palestine in the hope of aborting the emergence of the Jewish state and perhaps destroying that community. But they lost; and one of the results was the displacement of 700,000 of them from their homes.

on the local level, in dozens of localities around Palestine, Arab leaders advised or ordered the evacuation of women and children or whole communities, as occurred in Haifa in late April, 1948. And Haifa's Jewish mayor, Shabtai Levy, did, on April 22nd, plead with them to stay, to no avail.

Most of Palestine's 700,000 "refugees" fled their homes because of the flail of war (and in the expectation that they would shortly return to their homes on the backs of victorious Arab invaders).

The displacement of the 700,000 Arabs who became "refugees" - and I put the term in inverted commas, as two-thirds of them were displaced from one part of Palestine to another and not from their country (which is the usual definition of a refugee) - was not a racist crime but the result of a national conflict and a war, with religious overtones, from the Muslim perspective, launched by the Arabs themselves.

There was no Zionist "plan" or blanket policy of evicting the Arab population, or of "ethnic cleansing".

Plan Dalet (Plan D), of March 10th, 1948 (it is open and available for all to read in the IDF Archive and in various publications), was the master plan of the Haganah - the Jewish military force that became the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) - to counter the expected pan-Arab assault on the emergent Jewish state. That's what it explicitly states and that's what it was. And the invasion of the armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq duly occurred, on May 15th.

1948 - Morris, Benny - Yale University Press


The foreigners came to Palestine with the stated goal of taking over the country. Then they defended themselves from the indigenous population who did not want to go along with that plan.

Israel has been defending itself ever since.:cuckoo:
 
Benny Morris gets his history a bit muddled, as do most Zionists.

Q: When did the Arab states declare war?
A: On May 15, 1948.

Wrong, camel herder. Arabs attacked the Jews on Nov. 30, 1947, one day after issuance of UN Res. 181.



Camel herder, you have not even read Plan Dalet. Plan Dalet was a DEFENSIVE plan to prevent Arab aggression against Jews, NOT an offensive plan. And, Palestine was Ottoman Turkish land, not Arab land. The Turks transferred sovereignty to the Jews via the Treaty of Sevres, the San Remo Resolution and Palestine Mandate.

Arabs were never landowners, just backward, indigent tenant farmers. Like today.

I know one-third of all Arabs are illiterate, according to the Arab League, but, surely, Habib, you can at least try to read.

Benny Morris is the acknowledged authority on the 1948 War and his book, "1948," is the definitive study of the war. You're done, Habib.
The Palestinian Arabs were not responsible in some bizarre way for what befell them in 1948. Their responsibility was very direct and simple.

In defiance of the will of the international community, as embodied in the UN General Assembly Resolution of November 29th, 1947 (No. 181), they launched hostilities against the Jewish community in Palestine in the hope of aborting the emergence of the Jewish state and perhaps destroying that community. But they lost; and one of the results was the displacement of 700,000 of them from their homes.

on the local level, in dozens of localities around Palestine, Arab leaders advised or ordered the evacuation of women and children or whole communities, as occurred in Haifa in late April, 1948. And Haifa's Jewish mayor, Shabtai Levy, did, on April 22nd, plead with them to stay, to no avail.

Most of Palestine's 700,000 "refugees" fled their homes because of the flail of war (and in the expectation that they would shortly return to their homes on the backs of victorious Arab invaders).

The displacement of the 700,000 Arabs who became "refugees" - and I put the term in inverted commas, as two-thirds of them were displaced from one part of Palestine to another and not from their country (which is the usual definition of a refugee) - was not a racist crime but the result of a national conflict and a war, with religious overtones, from the Muslim perspective, launched by the Arabs themselves.

There was no Zionist "plan" or blanket policy of evicting the Arab population, or of "ethnic cleansing".

Plan Dalet (Plan D), of March 10th, 1948 (it is open and available for all to read in the IDF Archive and in various publications), was the master plan of the Haganah - the Jewish military force that became the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) - to counter the expected pan-Arab assault on the emergent Jewish state. That's what it explicitly states and that's what it was. And the invasion of the armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria and Iraq duly occurred, on May 15th.

1948 - Morris, Benny - Yale University Press

The foreigners came to Palestine with the stated goal of taking over the country. Then they defended themselves from the indigenous population who did not want to go along with that plan.

Israel has been defending itself ever since.:cuckoo:

Palestine was never a country, dummy.

Eminent Middle East historian Bernard Lewis...
For Arabs, the term Palestine was unacceptable... For Muslims it was alien and irrelevant...The main objection for them was that it seemed to assert a separate entity which politically conscious Arabs in Palestine and elsewhere denied. For them there was no such thing as a country called Palestine. The region which the British called Palestine was merely a separated part of a larger whole. Palestine was not a country and had no frontiers, only administrative boundaries; it was a group of provincial subdivisions, by no means always the same, within a larger entity. For a long time organized and articulate Arab political opinion was virtually unanimous on this point.
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Take your schizophrenia medication and go to sleep, dummy.
 
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The foreigners came to Palestine with the stated goal of taking over the country. Then they defended themselves from the indigenous population who did not want to go along with that plan.

Israel has been defending itself ever since.:cuckoo:

Jews are the indigenous population, dummy.

The United States Congressional Record
1922 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
National Home for
THE JEWISH PEOPLE JUNE 30, 1922
HOUSE RESOLUTION 360 - UNANIMOUSLY ADOPTED
Palestine of today, the land we now know as Palestine, was peopled by the Jews from the dawn of history until the Roman era. It is the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people. They were driven from it by force by the relentless Roman military machine and for centuries prevented from returning. At different periods various alien people succeeded them but the Jewish race had left an indelible impress upon the land.

Today it is a Jewish country. Every name, every landmark, every monument and every trace of whatever civilization remaining there is still Jewish. And it has ever since remained a hope, a longing, as expressed in their prayers for these nearly 2,000 years. No other people has ever claimed Palestine as their national home. No other people has ever shown an aptitude or indicated a genuine desire to make it their homeland. The land has been ruled by foreigners. Only since the beginning of the modern Zionist effort may it be said that a creative, cultural, and economic force has entered Palestine. The Jewish Nation was forced from its natural home. It did not go because it wanted to.

A perusal of Jewish history, a reading of Josephus, will convince the most skeptical that the grandest fight that was ever put up against an enemy was put up by the Jew. He never thought of leaving Palestine. But he was driven out. But did he, when driven out, give up his hope of getting back? Jewish history and Jewish literature give the answer to the question. The Jew even has a fast day devoted to the day of destruction of the Jewish homeland.

Never throughout history did they give up hope of returning there. I am told that 90 per cent of the Jews today are praying for the return of the Jewish people to its own home. The best minds among them believe in the necessity of reestablishing their Jewish land. To my mind there is something prophetic in the fact that during the ages no other nation has taken over Palestine and held it in the sense of a homeland; and there is something providential in the fact that for 1,800 years it has remained in desolation as if waiting for the return of the people.
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Take your schizophrenia medication, dummy.
 
Wrong, camel herder. Arabs attacked the Jews on Nov. 30, 1947, one day after issuance of UN Res. 181.



Camel herder, you have not even read Plan Dalet. Plan Dalet was a DEFENSIVE plan to prevent Arab aggression against Jews, NOT an offensive plan. And, Palestine was Ottoman Turkish land, not Arab land. The Turks transferred sovereignty to the Jews via the Treaty of Sevres, the San Remo Resolution and Palestine Mandate.

Arabs were never landowners, just backward, indigent tenant farmers. Like today.

I know one-third of all Arabs are illiterate, according to the Arab League, but, surely, Habib, you can at least try to read.

Benny Morris is the acknowledged authority on the 1948 War and his book, "1948," is the definitive study of the war. You're done, Habib.


1948 - Morris, Benny - Yale University Press

The foreigners came to Palestine with the stated goal of taking over the country. Then they defended themselves from the indigenous population who did not want to go along with that plan.

Israel has been defending itself ever since.:cuckoo:

Palestine was never a country, dummy.

Eminent Middle East historian Bernard Lewis...
For Arabs, the term Palestine was unacceptable... For Muslims it was alien and irrelevant...The main objection for them was that it seemed to assert a separate entity which politically conscious Arabs in Palestine and elsewhere denied. For them there was no such thing as a country called Palestine. The region which the British called Palestine was merely a separated part of a larger whole. Palestine was not a country and had no frontiers, only administrative boundaries; it was a group of provincial subdivisions, by no means always the same, within a larger entity. For a long time organized and articulate Arab political opinion was virtually unanimous on this point.
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Take your schizophrenia medication and go to sleep, dummy.

Obfuscation.
 
The foreigners came to Palestine with the stated goal of taking over the country. Then they defended themselves from the indigenous population who did not want to go along with that plan.

Israel has been defending itself ever since.:cuckoo:

Palestine was never a country, dummy.

Eminent Middle East historian Bernard Lewis...
For Arabs, the term Palestine was unacceptable... For Muslims it was alien and irrelevant...The main objection for them was that it seemed to assert a separate entity which politically conscious Arabs in Palestine and elsewhere denied. For them there was no such thing as a country called Palestine. The region which the British called Palestine was merely a separated part of a larger whole. Palestine was not a country and had no frontiers, only administrative boundaries; it was a group of provincial subdivisions, by no means always the same, within a larger entity. For a long time organized and articulate Arab political opinion was virtually unanimous on this point.
[ame=http://www.amazon.com/Middle-East-Bernard-Lewis/dp/0684832801/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278419566&sr=8-6]Amazon.com: The Middle East (9780684832807): Bernard Lewis: Books[/ame]



Take your schizophrenia medication and go to sleep, dummy.

Obfuscation.

You're PWNED, mentally ill one.
Take your schizophrenia medication.
 

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