RE: Who Are The Palestinians? Part 2
※→ Ventura77,
et al,
I have to admit, you are the greatest at distortion.
Israel did not yet exist when the fraudulent claim of 'Five Arab armies attacking' went into circulation...
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At midnight, 14/15 May, the British completed their withdrawal from the territory formerly under the Mandate; and the Jewish Agency announced the formation of the Provisional Government and the Independence of Israel.
History - Question of Palestine said:
∆ The first Arab-Israeli war, 1948-1949 ∆
On 14 May 1948, Britain relinquished its Mandate over Palestine and disengaged its forces. On the same day, the Jewish Agency proclaimed the establishment of the
State of Israel on the territory allotted to it by the partition plan. Fierce hostilities immediately broke out between the Arab and Jewish communities. The next day,
regular troops of the neighbouring Arab States entered the territory to assist the Palestinian Arab
EXCERPTS Representative to the United Nations of the Arab Higher Committee said:
The Arab Higher Committee solicited assistance of the following Arab countries: Egypt, Saudi-Arabia, Yemen, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Trans-Jordan, in order to reinstate peace and order in Palestine. Their purpose and task is one of pacification and not of invasion. It has been made clear that once peace and order are restored, the people of Palestine of all creeds will exercise freely their right of self-determination in a general plebiscite.
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When the regular Arab armies entered Palestine, the responsibility for the control of public security, and other kindred governmental responsibilities on the different areas they occupy have been placed in their hands. In the execution of these duties, both the Arab Higher Committee and the National Committees place their assistance and cooperation at the disposal of the military authorities.
SOURCE: S/775 24 May 1948
EXCERPTS Representative - On behalf of the Arab States said:
The Arab armies themselves are not convinced that the Jewish forces will not at any sudden moment break without provocation a truce and attack them. What guarantee is there? For it must be forgotten that the Arab forces are not fighting a regular army but terrorist gangs trained in certain parts of Europe and other regions under the expert hands of forces which for a long time had visited on the world the worst evils. It is surprising that the regular Arab armies are being treated on an equal footing with terrorist bands of a minority intending to impose their will by force on the majority.
SOURCE: S/792 26 May 1948
EXCERPTS Continuation of the consideration of the consolidated tabulation prepared by the working group said:
When Jerusalem was surrounded on three sides by Arab armies and was still in a state of war, how could the Jewish military authorities be expected to allow any Arab to enter freely and remain in Jerusalem?
SOURCE: Continued Discussion 1 December 1948
I'm not exactly sure of the intent of your insinuation about the relative term "armies" in regards to it application to the Arab Intervention in 1948. It's effect though, is to derail any meaningful discussion of the progress towards "peace." I am suspicious.
Once the Arab States along with India voted down the farcical text of Resolution #181 the Zionists launched a well-planned ethnic-cleansing offensive to steal what they could not acquire through political channels, nearly all of the Arab towns and villages earmarked for the Palestinians in #181 were occupied by Zionist militias within the first day of the terror-offensive...
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Again, I am very suspicious of the path and derailment purpose --- maybe with the intent to inflame emotions.
History - Question of Palestine said:
∆ End of the British Mandate ∆
The adoption of resolution 181 (II) was followed by outbreaks of violence in Palestine. As the situation deteriorated, the Security Council called for a special
session of the General Assembly, which then met from 16 April to 14 May 1948.
Syrian and Egyptian troops didn't enter the fray until days after the Zionist offensive began...so much for the lie of an Attack on a fictive Israel...
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This is ambiguous. It looks like it says something, but does not. Clearly this cannot be relative to the 1948 War of Independence for Israel...
What Zionist offensive?
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I don't recall, from any of my previous studies, when Civil Wars --- wherein factions of the same region of some common political subdivision were locked in conflict, did not turn ugly. In this case, each side has claimed to hold the moral high ground. And - in this case, no measure of combat outcome ends the conflict or results in peace.
In this case, the Arab Palestinian wants to play the part of the victim; where they fictitiously feign oppression, disenfranchisement, or psychological trauma to draw attention, sympathy, or reassurance to themselves from the donor nations of the world. The Arab Palestinian has become a very adept at the victim role
("poor me") by portraying themselves as victims of someone else's behavior
(in this case Israel and any ally) in order to gain
pity and
sympathy or to invoke
hostile emotions and thereby rally political support ⇒ and direct anger towards Israel.
This, however, has not proven a very effective strategy in the past. While the Arab Palestinian is very good at making lists of international laws that have been broken by Israel; many of the claims and counterclaims are contradictory.
•• Example: The Arab Palestinians claim that all the territory formerly under Mandate is Arab Palestinian. But if that is true, then how can Israel (which would then be a political constituency with Palestine) be accused of being an invader; or transferring its own population, or illegal annexation etc etc etc...
Many allies of the Israelis tend to begin to ignore the ranting and ravings of the Arab Palestinians as so much childishness and tantrum noise. In the end, the world stage will begin to see just each Arab Palestinian tantrum as just that --- an additional piece to the never ending story; and then it will filter-out the noise --- with nothing of interest left.
Most Respectfully,
R