You may imagine that 1,200,000 Arabs shared your irrational hatred of Israel, but the evidence is that most of the Arabs had no strong objections to a Jewish state, but were frightened by the Arab leaders and the Arab Liberation Army into fleeing from their homes. One of the reasons the Israelis did so well in the war was that only a few thousands of the 1,200,000 Arabs in the territory chose to fight. So there is no basis for believing the Arabs in the territories shared the opinions of the Arab leaders regarding a Jewish state or that they shared your irrational hatred of Israel.
I understand you have trouble thinking for yourself, but any reasonable person understands that the UN did not create the Jewish state of Israel; it proposed a Jewish state and an Arab state and then left the outcome up to the people living west of the Jordan River. Once the British left and no other country was willing and able to take responsibility for the protectorate, the Jews would have created the state of Israel regardless of what the UN did. The Jews were highly motivated to create Israel, but the Arabs, despite the ability of their leaders to rouse them to anti Jewish frenzies from time to time, showed no sustained ambition to create another Arab state or to resist the creation of a Jewish state.
What's your (imaginary) evidence that "most Arabs had no strong objections to a Jewish state?" Zionists were never secretive about their plans for Greater Israel. The UN proposal to turn over half the land of Palestine to a minority which owned less that seven percent of the land and made up one-third of the population confirmed Arab suspicions of an impending Nakba.
Even ignorant racist imaginations should be able to fathom how the fear of territorial displacement and dispossession drove a majority of Arabs to oppose a Jewish state; particularly since Palestinian Arabs had seen the Jewish population of Palestine triple since the end of WWI.
I understand you're little more than a shill for Israel; however, any reasonable person understands the Jewish state would not exist today without the UN and western imperial interests driving its creation.
In fact, the UN proposed Jewish state contained more than half of the total population of the Mandate, 500,000 Jews and 400,000 Arabs.
There is no evidence to support the claim that the Arabs left because of a strong opposition to a Jewish state or because they were strongly motivated to see an Arab state in all of the land west of the Jordan River, but there is substantial evidence to suggest that most of the Arabs were herded out of Israel by Arab leaders and the Arab Liberation Army before what Abdul Rahman Azzam, the secretary general of the Arab League, promised would be "a war of extermination and momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Tartar massacre[10] or the Crusader wars."
Azzam's Genocidal Threat :: Middle East Quarterly
The Arabs left despite the fact that at the outset of the war Jewish leaders recognized that most Arabs in their new state were not hostile and assured them they were in no danger. Haifa is an important example of this.
In the largest and best-known example, tens of thousands of Arabs were ordered or bullied into leaving the city of Haifa (on April 21-22) on the instructions of the Arab Higher Committee, the effective "government" of the Palestinian Arabs, despite strenuous Jewish efforts to persuade them to stay. Only days earlier, Tiberias's 6,000- strong Arab community had been similarly forced out by its own leaders, against local Jewish wishes. In Jaffa, Palestine's largest Arab city, the municipality organized the transfer of thousands of residents by land and sea; in Jerusalem, the Arab Higher Committee ordered the transfer of women and children, and local gang leaders pushed out residents of several neighborhoods.
Abbas's Fable :: Middle East Forum
BRITISH POLICE MEMORANDUM ON 1948 EXODUS
10/PS District Police Headquarters
(C.I.D.) P.O.B. 700 Haifa
SECRET 26th April, 1948
A/A.I.C. C.I.D.
Subject:- General Situation - Haifa District
The situation in Haifa remains unchanged. Every effort is being made by the Jews to persuade the Arab populace to stay and carry on with their normal lives, to get their shops and businesses open and to be assured that their lives and interests will be safe. On the other side the evacuation goes on and a large road convoy escorted by Military and containing a large percentage of Christians left Haifa for Beirut yesterday. An estimated number of 700 has been given for this convoy and evacuation by sea goes on steadily. At the same time the convoy and evacuation of women, children and older inhabitants from Tireh and surrounding villages has become a problem and these are taking refuge in a disused army camp near Tireh. They are being carried out to Transjordan and Military lorries have been loaned to get this section clear. At the moment it looks as if the greater part of very healthy crops which will soon require attention are going to be abandoned and lost.
Tireh was attacked again yesterday morning but managed to repulse the attack. There have been no other incidents reported.
A.J. Bidmead
for SUPERINTENDENT OF POLICE
Copy to - District Commissioner, Haifa
Superintendent of Police, Haifa
File
This letter was among documents in British Police files taken over by the Haganah when the British evacuated Haifa in May 1948. See S. Katz, Battleground, Bantam Books 1973.
British Police Memo - Israel & Judaism Studies
All the evidence shows that while the Arab leaders contemplated a war of extermination against the Jews and persuaded or forced Arab families to abandon their political rights and property, the Jews tried to persuade peaceful Arabs to remain as equal citizens of the new state.
