montelatici
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Yeah, those nations that told the Arabs living in that area to get out of the way because it would be a simple operation to get the Jews out of it were wrong.I don't recall that any colony that would be developed into a state was established in Europe for people from another continent after WW1. Nor do I recall any action that evicted hundreds of thousands of European native people to make way for people from another continent.
The operation was an attempt to prevent the Europeans from evicting the native people and transforming the European colony into a state for Europeans at the expense of the native people. The Europeans could have been of any religion, for example, the European colonists in Algeria, and Rhodesia were Christians.
The British knew this was the case as recently declassified documents have confirmed. The British declared that the only possible way that the Palestinians might be saved from murder and/or eviction as a result of European (Jewish) aggression was the intervention of the Arab states.
"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'"
In the weeks leading up to the partition of Palestine in 1948, when Britain gave up its UN mandate, Jewish terrorist groups were mounting increasing attacks on UK forces and Arab fighters, the Colonial Office papers show......The British government knew from the moment it planned to withdraw its forces from Palestine more than 60 years ago that partition of the territory and the founding of the state of Israel would lead to war and defeat for the Arabs, secret documents released make clear.....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 – and Arab defeat – in Palestine in 1948