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Indeed, two peas in a pod.Do you mean the Christians of the Islamist Middle East who have largely been exterminated by your Islamist heroes?Truth, hitler picked the wrong people to exterminate...Perpetrator As Victim: No End To A Self-Inflicted "Tragedy"
What "Nakba" commemorations really disclose.
May 16, 2016
Daniel Mandel
Yesterday, May 15, Palestinians and their supporters, as they have done increasingly over recent years, marked the nakba (Arabic for ācatastropheā) āā the day 68 years ago that Israel came into existence upon the expiry of British rule under a League of Nations mandate.
That juxtaposition of Israel and nakba isnāt accidental. Weāre meant to understand that Israelās creation caused the displacement of hundreds of thousand of Palestinian Arabs.
But the truth is different. A British document from the scene in early 1948, declassified in 2013, tells the story: āthe Arabs have suffered ... overwhelming defeats ... Jewish victories ā¦ have reduced Arab morale to zero and, following the cowardly example of their inept leaders, they are fleeing from the mixed areas in their thousands.ā
In other words, Jew and Arabs, including irregular foreign militias from neighboring states, were already at war and Arabs were fleeing even before Israel came into sovereign existence on May 15, 1948.
Neighboring Arab armies and internal Palestinian militias responded to Israelās declaration of independence with full-scale hostilities. In fact, the headline for the New York Timesā famous report on that day includes the words, āTel Aviv Is Bombed, Egypt Orders Invasion.ā And, indeed, the head of Israelās provisional government, David Ben Gurion, delivered his first radio address to the nation from an air-raid shelter.
Israel successfully resisted invasion and dismemberment āā the universally affirmed objective of the Arab belligerents āā and Palestinians came off worst of all from the whole venture. At warās end, over 600,000 Palestinians were living as refugees under neighboring Arab regimes.
As Saudi columnist Abdulateef Al-Mulhim observed on previous anniversary, āIt was a defeat but the Arabs chose to call it a catastrophe.ā In fact, the Syrian, Qustantin Zuraiq, in his 1948 pamphlet, Maāan al-Nakba (The Meaning of the Catastrophe), was first used the term nakba in this context, and the catastrophe of his description was not an Israeli ethnic cleansing of Palestinians, but their flight in anticipation of an Arab invasion and destruction of Israel.
Accordingly, the term nakba, as used today, smacks of falsehood, inasmuch as it implies a tragedy inflicted by Israel. The "tragedy," of course, was self-inflicted.
As Israelās UN ambassador Abba Eban was to put it some years later, āOnce you determine the responsibility for that war, you have determined the responsibility for the refugee problem. Nothing in the history of our generation is clearer or less controversial than the initiative of Arab governments for the conflict out of which the refugee tragedy emerged.ā
However, the Palestinians do not mourn today the ill-conceived choice of going to war to abort Israel. They mourn only that they failed.
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Perpetrator As Victim: No End To A Self-Inflicted "Tragedy"
As usual you are full of crap. What the declassified documents actually said before the intervention of the Arab states to try to stop Jewish aggression was:
"Declassified UK reports document build-up of conflict, Jewish public's endorsement of their leaders' pro-terrorist stance and declare armies of Arab states were Palestinians' 'only hope'....
After an increase in violent attacks by the militant Zionists of the Stern group and Irgun, British officials reported later in 1946: "Arab leaders appear to be still disposed to defer active opposition so long as a chance of a political decision acceptable to Arab interests exists." But they warned: "There is a real danger lest any further Jewish provocation may result in isolated acts of retaliation spreading inevitably to wider Arab-Jewish clashes".
British officials predicted war ā and Arab defeat ā in Palestine in 1948
What does Hitler have to do with Christians and Muslims of the Middle East?
What Islamist heroes? I despise Islamists as much as Zionists.