Wrong, Billo-boy. It was never anything else BUT wishing to kill them all. That's why they started the war in 1948 to begin with.
They lost, and whine till today because they refuse to accept the consequences.
Wrong! Arab armies went in to ensure the inalienable rights of the indigenous, non-Jewish population, which was being systematically stripped from them through the use of
Jewish terrorist groups.
The Palestine question in the United Nations
The British Government's decision in February 1947 to place the Palestine question before the United Nations was followed by several weeks of examining the various alternatives and the difficulties they entailed.
Meanwhile, violence continued to spread in Palestine as Zionist terrorist groups, now on the offensive, stepped up their attacks and sabotage. Illegal immigration into Palestine increased sharply. With a regular session several months away, the British Government, under the pressure of violence in Palestine, requested a special session of the General Assembly to consider the appointment of a special committee "to make recommendations ... concerning the future government of Palestine"
According to the official UN record, the arab army's went in to stop the Zionists Plan Dalet.
Zionist policies of territorial expansion
As the British Government progressively disengaged from Palestine, and the United Nations was unable to replace it as an effective governing authority, the Zionist movement moved to establish control over the territory of the nascent Jewish State. At the same time the bordering Arab States made clear that they would intervene.
From writings of Zionist leaders, it is evident that Zionist policy was to occupy, during the period of withdrawal, as much territory as possible (including the "West Bank") beyond the boundaries assigned to the Jewish State by the partition resolution.
So that say's, the war started because you fuckers started taking more land that you were given.
1) Nope they had decided to go in and wipe the Jews out as soon as the 1947 partition plan was put in place. The Jews were fighting for survival from 1929 when the grand mufti spread his BLOOD LIBELS that resulted in the Hebron massacre.
Here it is from Wiki
1948 Arab?Israeli War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The General Assembly decision on Partition was greeted with overwhelming joy in Jewish communities and widespread outrage in the Arab world. In Palestine, violence erupted almost immediately, feeding into a spiral of reprisals and counter-reprisals. The British refrained from intervening as tensions boiled over into a low-level conflict that quickly escalated into a full-scale civil-war.[19][20][21][22][23][24]
From January onwards, operations became increasingly militarized, with the intervention of a number of Arab Liberation Army regiments inside Palestine, each active in a variety of distinct sectors around the different coastal towns. They consolidated their presence in Galilee and Samaria.[25] Abd al-Qadir al-Husayni came from Egypt with several hundred men of the Army of the Holy War. Having recruited a few thousand volunteers, al-Husayni organized the blockade of the 100,000 Jewish residents of Jerusalem
2) so the Jewish groups were only taking control of the crumbs the UN had thrown them while the arab states were actively warmongering. And the arab states were heard to state they would wipe out the Jews.
The Arab League gave reasons for its invasion in Palestine in the cablegram:[59]
the Arab states find themselves compelled to intervene in order restore law and order and to check further bloodshed
the Mandate over Palestine has come to an end, leaving no legally constituted authority
the only solution of the Palestine problem is the establishment of a unitary Palestinian state.
Some unofficial statements before the war had been more aggressive. Secretary Azzam Pasha, according to an interview in an 11 October 1947 article of Akhbar al-Yom, said: "I personally wish that the Jews do not drive us to this war, as this will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades".
As for the west bank the Jews had already made agreements with Abdullah for him to annexe the west bank.
Same source
In 194647, Abdullah said that he had no intention to "resist or impede the partition of Palestine and creation of a Jewish state."[64] Ideally, Abdullah would have liked to annex all of Palestine, but he was prepared to compromise.[65][66] He supported the partition, intending that the West Bank area of the British Mandate allocated for the Arab state be annexed to Jordan.[67] Abdullah had secret meetings with the Jewish Agency (at which the future Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir was among the delegates) that reached an agreement of Jewish non-interference with Jordanian annexation of the West Bank (although Abdullah failed in his goal of acquiring an outlet to the Mediterranean Sea through the Negev desert) and of Jordanian agreement not to attack the area of the Jewish state contained in the United Nations partition resolution (in which Jerusalem was given neither to the Arab nor the Jewish state, but was to be an internationally administered area). In order to keep their support to his plan of annexion of the Arab State, Abdullah promised to the British he would not attack the Jewish State.