Oh, I'm PERFECTLY willing to concede that the Jews of Palestine had more folks mobilized for war than did the Palestinians; consequently, I need no 'link' to try to disingenuously prove otherwise.
So long as YOU are willing to concede that the Palestinians failed to mobilize their twice-as-large population in sufficient numbers to counter that threat...
And that the Palestinians 'skeddadled' when danger reared its ugly head...
And that even despite the fact that the local Palestinian Arab irregular militias were far better armed than the Israelis, because the British had given all their excess armaments and operational bases and forts to the Arabs at the time of the termination of the British Mandate in Palestine, while forcing the Jews to continue smuggling inferior surplus armaments from Europe in small quantities as best they could, when they could evade the British authorities on the beaches and on the roadways...
And that even despite the infusion of 70,000 better-armed, highly-trained mercenaries, including large-scale airpower assets and large-scale armored formations, of which the Israelis had none - the fumbling, bumbling, incompetent and cowardly runaway Palestinians and their Arab mercenary neighbors could not defeat the poorly-trained, ill-equipped, amateurs of the disparate Jewish militias.
The Muslim-Arab Palestinians and their Arab neighbor armies had every possible advantage in the run-up to the 1948-1949 Arab-Israeli War... population to draw on, armaments, freedom of movement, money, war-assets, political backing, etc, and they STILL screwed the pooch...
When there is a Land Dispute, and when you're too Chickenshit to stand up like a Man and FIGHT for your land, you DESERVE to lose it, as the price of your Big Skeddadle.
No guts, no glory.
It's why the Palestinians and their Arab neighbor-states continue to be perceived in military terms as a world-class joke and laughing stock, to this very day.
When killer Jews backed by a UN mandate raised their ugly heads in 1948, the Arab leadership had been fully decapitated twelve years earlier by the British. The same British who ensured well-fed slaves in Palestine by directing 90% of all investment money to Jewish capital..."
Is it just me, or is our colleague Georgie here bogged down in a Worldwide Joooish Kornspiracy Theory Defense of how poorly his beloved Arabs did in 1948-1949...
And grasping for straws in a desperate bid to make excuses for them?
Does Kondie have a link for his "poorly-trained, ill-equipped, amateurs of... disparate Jewish militias"?
1948 Arab?Israeli War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"In 1946, Ben-Gurion decided that the Yishuv would probably have to defend itself against both the Palestinian Arabs and neighbouring Arab states and accordingly began a 'massive, covert arms acquisition campaign in the West'.
"By September 1947 the Haganah had '10,489 rifles, 702 light machine-guns, 2,666 submachine guns, 186 medium machine-guns, 672 two-inch mortars and 92 three-inch (76 mm) mortars' and acquired many more during the first few months of hostilities.
"The Yishuv also had 'a relatively advanced arms producing capacity', that between October 1947 and July 1948 'produced 3 million 9 mm bullets, 150,000 Mills grenades, 16,000 submachine guns (Sten Guns) and 210 three-inch (76 mm) mortars',[87] along with a few 'Davidka' mortars, which had been indigenously designed and produced.
"They were inaccurate but had a spectacularly loud explosion that demoralized the enemy.
"A large amount of the munitions used by the Israelis came from the Ayalon Institute, a clandestine bullet factory underneath kibbutz Ayalon, which produced about 2.5 million bullets for Sten guns.
"The munitions produced by the Ayalon Institute were said to have been the only supply that was not in shortage during the war. Locally-produced explosives were also plentiful.
"Shortly after independence, Israel no longer had to conceal it's arms manufacturing operations, and moved them above ground. All of the Haganah's weapons-manufacturing was centralized and later became Israel Military Industries.[92]
"Initially, the Haganah had no heavy machine guns, artillery, armored vehicles, anti-tank or anti-aircraft weapons,[90] nor military aircraft or tanks.[87] The Yishuv also managed to purchase arms and military equipment on the black market.
"In the United States, Yishuv agents purchased three B-17 bombers, one of which bombed Cairo in July 1948, some C-46 transport planes, and dozens of half-tracks, which were repainted and defined as 'agricultural equipment'.
"In Western Europe, Haganah agents amassed fifty 65mm French mountain guns, twelve 120mm mortars, ten H-35 light tanks, and a large number of half-tracks.
"The Haganah readied twelve cargo ships throughout European ports to transfer this equipment, along with equipment supplied by Czechoslovakia, to Palestine once the British blockade was lifted.[93][94]
"They also managed to obtain stocks of British weapons due to the logistical complexity of the British withdrawal, and the corruption of a number of officials.[85]"