Palestine: the things you don’t hear about

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By the time he announced the establishment of the state of Israel on Palestine’s land in the afternoon of May 14, 1948, the Zionist militia had already "succeeded" in depopulating 212 villages and three major towns of their Palestinian inhabitants

 

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The British Mandate also did not protect them from half of about 70 massacres in 1948, which occurred during the Mandate to expedite the expulsion of Palestinians from their homes. The infamous Deir Yassin is but one of these massacres, but there were many others, surpassing Deir Yassin in enormity and atrociousness.

 

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When Ben Gurion and company committed these crimes, and declared the state of Israel, there was not a single Arab regular soldier on Palestine soil.


Thus the myth of self-defense, or the desperate fight of David against Goliath, which was fed to western audiences for decades, should be laid to rest.


Arab soldiers came to defend the remaining Palestinians after May 15, 1948, but they were outnumbered by the Israelis, had no unified command and no knowledge of the country. They failed to save what was left of Palestine.

 

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When Ben Gurion and company committed these crimes, and declared the state of Israel, there was not a single Arab regular soldier on Palestine soil.


Thus the myth of self-defense, or the desperate fight of David against Goliath, which was fed to western audiences for decades, should be laid to rest.


Arab soldiers came to defend the remaining Palestinians after May 15, 1948, but they were outnumbered by the Israelis, had no unified command and no knowledge of the country. They failed to save what was left of Palestine.

Arab soldiers came to defend the remaining Palestinians after May 15, 1948,

I view the Nakba and the 1948 war as two separate events. It is said that the 1948 war caused the refugees. That is not true. The 1948 war started on May 15, 1948. However, the Nakba started in December of 1947. About 300,000 Palestinians were expelled before the start of the 1948 war. The 1948 war ended with the 1949 armistice agreements. (no winners or losers) The Nakba continues to today.

 

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