georgephillip
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By your account.You can thank your Arab heroes who crossed the frontier in 1948 in their effort to eliminate the nascent State of Israel. That war, started by Arab armies uprooted Arabs.
By others, Arab armies invades after Jews began their campaign of ethnic cleansing, fought a largely defensive action, and prevented the Jews from taking all of historic Palestine (at least until 1967).
Weakness into Strength: Overcoming Strategic Deficits in the 1948 Israeli War for Independence
"The historian Avi Shlaim diagnoses the argument to be between traditional narratives of the miraculous Jewish victory against impossible odds and the re-written history based on archival evidence driven by the so-called new historians.
"He writes, 'There can be no agreement on what actually happened in 1948; each side subscribes to a different version of events.'[1]
"These competing sides search for truth on subjects such as the flight or expulsion of Palestinians, the sheer mass or disunity of Arab armies, and the British support or indifference towards the Jordanian invasion.[2]
"Entire libraries dedicate their existence to these questions and the enormous amount of ongoing research precludes a full review here. "