Not a word of that is true. While the Arabs openly declared their intention to wipe out the Jews, in its Declaration of Independence, Israel asked the Arabs to stay and promised all the same rights and freedoms they Jews would enjoy if they did.
THE STATE OF ISRAEL will be open for Jewish immigration and for the Ingathering of the Exiles; it will foster the development of the country for the benefit of all its inhabitants; it will be based on freedom, justice and peace as envisaged by the prophets of Israel; it will ensure complete equality of social and political rights to all its inhabitants irrespective of religion, race or sex; it will guarantee freedom of religion, conscience, language, education and culture; it will safeguard the Holy Places of all religions; and it will be faithful to the principles of the
Charter of the United Nations.
THE STATE OF ISRAEL is prepared to cooperate with the agencies and representatives of the United Nations in implementing the
resolution of the General Assembly of the 29th November, 1947, and will take steps to bring about the economic union of the whole of Eretz-Israel.
WE APPEAL to the United Nations to assist the Jewish people in the building-up of its State and to receive the State of Israel into the comity of nations.
WE APPEAL - in the very midst of the onslaught launched against us now for months - to the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to preserve peace and participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its provisional and permanent institutions.
In response to this, the Arabs launched what they called a war of extermination against the Jews.
British civilians may have been attacked by the Irish, but they were not attacked by the Jews in Palestine.
Throughout history, Jews had been barely tolerated second class citizens in Muslim states, and during the negotiations at the UN that led to the Partition resolution the Arabs refused to guarantee and rights to the Jews of Palestine.
From the first days of the British occupation of Palestine, the Jews sought to live in peace with the Arabs and the Arabs openly declared their intention to wipe out the Jews. There is no moral equivalence between them.