Tell that to the South Vietnamese, Shah of Iran, Saddam Hussein and Manuel Noriega.
Good one... really funny stuff!
All US ally's and all abandoned by the US when it was no longer in our interests to support.
None of those are Israel
None of those are Israel
Couldn't find your link, hapless hasbara.The British had prohibited the importation of arms into Mandate Palestine for years prior to the 1948 Israeli Declaration of Statehood and Independence.
When the British abandoned Palestine at the termination of the Mandate, the British turned over all their military bases and the arms that they were not taking with them, to Arab irregular militias and the Arab Legion; arming the Arabs while barring the Jews from obtaining weapons, except through smuggling, right up the minute that the Brits departed.
The Brits sided with the Arabs rather than the Jews, as they left Palestine.
Far better armed, with far more population, and help from well-equipped and well-trained neighbor-armies, and in possession of British forts and bases, the Arabs should have won.
The Jews of Palestine fielded an approximate 115,000 warm bodies to staff the Israeli 'Army' during the 1948-1949 War of Independence, which included all logistics and support personnel... desk-huggers, truck drivers, supply clerks, paper-pushers, female fighters, locally-bound militia units, kibbutz guards, etc.
They fielded these 115,000 from a population of 650,000 - according to your own numbers.
And, according to your own numbers, the Muslim-Arabs of Palestine numbered some 1,300,000 souls (650,000 x 2 [twice that number]).
A Palestinian Army-Militia should then have numbered twice that of the Jews - or, 115,000 X 2 = 330,000 Palestinian soldiers (including all support troops), if the Arabs were as brave and committed as the Jews were.
Now, when we add to that 330,000 - another 70,000 Muslim-Arab troops pouring in from Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq, Syria, and Egypt - and backed by Saudi Arabia, Libya, Morocco, Yemen, etc., you should have had something like 400,00 Arabs (330,000 + 70,000) against 115,000 Jews with NO Air Force and NO Armored Formations, yes?
Are you saying that you did not have 400,000 Arabs mustered to fight the Jews?
I mean, the neighboring Arab countries did THEIR part, sending 70,000 first-rate and highly trained and excellently equipped soldiers, complete with substantial Air Power and Armored Brigades and all the rest, right?
If there was a deficiency of numbers favoring the Israelis, then, where-oh-where did this deficiency stem from?
Must have been the PALESTINIANS who failed to summon the courage and resources to field enough men to win the day, alongside their Arab neighbor-benefactors.
Of course, in truth, they were too busy running, weren't they?
It wasn't 'The Nakba' - it was 'The Big Skeddadle'...
And against what (at that time) was the worlds' crappiest, least-equipped, most poorly-trained Militia Army...
Just like 'Incompetents', a people who will not muster the courage in sufficient numbers to defend their own lands against a similarly (actually, even worse-) challenged adversary, do not win battles in the field.
They lose their land.
If you won't fight for your homes - even when you receive a windfall and huge infusion of troops and war-assets from your neighbors - then you do not deserve to win.
Again, Nature has DE-selected them... for one reason or another.
And, of course, a highly-skilled and professionally-trained Egyptian or Syrian or Iraqi or Jordanian or Lebanese soldier should have been worth a half-dozen or more poorly equipped and poorly trained Jewish militiamen...
And they weren't.
Again... gross incompetency contributed to that round of Natural Selection.
Thereby explaining the contemptuous and raucous laughter of much of the non-Muslim world.
It's a pathetically poor showing and track record for those incompetent and ineffective fools.
No WONDER they've been a laughing-stock, ever since!
Why do you waste your time and mine whining about Muslim atrocities in Africa on a thread in the Israel/Palestine Forum? Are you Hasbara?
Because I find it odd you would make a blanket statement like that, without posting any specific examples to corroborate your claim. And if you can't list at least 3 specific examples, there's a good chance you don't know what your talking about. Maybe those jews weren't expelled? Maybe they were pressured into leaving by Zionists who wanted to populate Israel with more jewish emigration?
You know, I really don't care.
Ireland was where a British king hit on the strategy of using foreign colonialists as a wedge between the indigenous population and the Divine Right of Conquest:
In fact, the 20% ARE citizens of Israel.
Is it why arabs want to plunder it?
Is it because jew-haters can't get a life and a job?
