What was the problem with the UN mandated area? Palestinians and Arabs caused trouble without reason.
Israel offered coexistence, initially.
Another Pajeet offering his service to Israel. So strange.
Lets talk about the UN 1947 Partition Plan:
- Virtually all the Jews in Palestine had been included within the area designated for the Jewish state, whereas hundreds of thousands of Arabs had been left outside "their" state
- Palestinians outnumbered Jews 2 to 1 at the time, despite the large war and post-war influx of Jewish refugees from Europe.
- Arabs made up at least 45% of the population of the proposed Jewish state (by contrast, Jews made up just 1% of the proposed Arab state) and indeed, a UN sub-committee considering the proposals argued that UNSCOP had used outdated population statistics, and that Arabs actually formed a slight majority in the proposed Jewish state.
- Furthermore, Zionist leaders made it clear that they saw their "acceptance" of the plan as merely temporary, until they could later expand - indeed, they had little faith the plan would actually come to pass, and already expected war.
- Arab leaders accepted the plan proposed by the 1939 White Paper, while the Zionists rejected it.
- Israel deliberately chose not to include a designation of its borders in the Declaration of Independence, believing it would block them from expanding to other areas, most notably Jerusalem.
In addition, the narrative that the Palestinians went to war with newly created Israel is false:
First, there was already a civil war raging in Palestine, and it had been for several months. Second, Israel's existence had been declared a matter of hours earlier, to the surprise of the Arab states, who had already made the decision to intervene.
In addition, Israel, at the time, lacked many of the criteria that define a state. For obvious reasons, it lacked international recognition, but more importantly, it had no defined territory (Israel's Declaration of Independence made no reference to the UNSCOP-proposed borders, or any others), which renders the idea of an "invasion" conceptually problematic at best, and meaningless or impossible at worst.
Lastly, IDF troops outnumbered Arab troops in the war.
To kill who?
