I'm afraid that you show your ignorance of Israeli history with this ill-informed attempt at being even-handed. In 1948, the stated object of the five-army alliance which invaded Palestine, armed to its teeth by Britain, was to "carry out a massacre like the Mongols" and not to leave a single Jew alive. They had sufficient precedent: before Hitler had ever been heard of, genocidal feelings had been running riot in Palestine. In 1929, the whole Hebrew community of Hebron, the most ancient in Palestine, had been wiped out. The Arab intent to destroy the Jews of Palestine informed the foreign policy of the whole region during World War Two, when the Mufti of Jerusalem went into exile in Berlin and encouraged the Nazis in their most genocidal enterprise, repeatedly visiting death camps and approving, and helped raise Muslim SS troops including a whole division. At the same time, Iraq rose in arms against Britain; when defeated, it indulged in wholesale massacre of its own native Jews - and Britain, showing its nastily anti-hebraic face, stood by and let it happen. Egypt, repeatedly invaded by Italy and Germany, never once acted as an invaded country is expected to, and clearly showed that it only waited for an excuse to go to war against Britain. The British were glad enough to raise large amounts of soldiers among the Jews of Palestine, but they did nothing for them in return, and in effect encouraged their enemies to attempt massacre in 1948; and it was only pure Jewish courage, plus the skills acquired during the world war, that allowed the outnumbered, outgunned and surrounded Jews to survive. You speak like a man with no idea of the history of the region beyond the distorted trash spouted by contemporary mass media.
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