1947?48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
BTW, I can find plenty of links that refer to it as a civil war as well.
But once again, the great Tinmore thinks he's smarter than the world and would like to call it something else.
Toastman,
The term "civil war" while technically correct is misleading when applied to the conflicts that preceded the creation of the state of Israel.
The expression civil war conveys the idea of an armed conflict between two groups of
native inhabitants of a given territory, country, etc... like the american Civil War or the Russian Revolution.
What happened in Palestine during the first half of the last century was not, by any stretch, a conflict between two indigenous peoples of Palestine. It was an ethnocratic armed conflict between the natives of the land and european settlers trying to establish demographic, political and economic dominance over the natives.
You can call any ethnocratic armed conflict a "civil war" because it's not technically wrong:
The Indian Wars of the 17th century between the english colonists and the american native population.
The first wars between the Dutch and English settlers and the native bantu population of South Africa.
etc, etc, etc...
It's not technically wrong but it's quite misleading.