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Holy war for the promised land: Israel's struggle to survive - Page 232 - David P. Dolan - Thomas Nelson Incorporated, 1991 In the midst of a war launched by calls from the entire Arab world for the Jews to be thrown into the sea, and on the heels of the holocaust, most Jews were not sad to see the Arabs flee when the main refugee flight occurred in 1948. Finding a peaceful solution to the Arab/Israeli conflict is next to impossible, as many world diplomats have discovered over the past four decades . https://books.google.com/books?id=eaBTQcMXOrUC&dq=Calls+from+the+entire+arab+world+for+the+jews+to+be+thrown+into+the+sea&focus=searchwithinvolume&q="Into+the+sea" The Arab-Israeli Conflict in Israeli History Textbooks, 1948-2000, p.103 Their objective was "to throw the Jews into the sea.” Israel , however, had one advantage : it was culturally and socially superior to the Arabs . 164 A particularly slanted description was given by Cohen and Gelber , who rec...

Regional Development for Regional Peace: A New Policy and Peace: A New Policy and Program to Counter the Soviet Menace in the Middle East - Public Affairs Institute, Public Affairs Institute, Washington, D.C. - 1957 · Economic assistance, American  pp.236-241 https://books.google.com/books?id=TTPRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA236 ORIGIN OF THE REFUGEE PROBLEM FOR ten years, charges and counter charges of responsibility for the origin of the refugee problem have been voiced by the Arab States and their sympathizers on one hand and Israel and its sympathizers on the other.  The exodus from Palestine took place under such chaotic conditions as to make it impossible to identify all of the factors which caused hundreds of thousands of people to flee from their homes. In the troubled period between December 1947 and December 1948 when the flight took place, there were undoubted acts of terrorism on both sides.  These incidents, while isolated, were undoubtedly a factor in provoking some pa...

A word re researchers on the battle of Deir Yassin. After reading from both sides.... 1. It happened BEFORE the modern State of Israel was established. 2.  Accounts tell of at least some of Deir Yassin Arabs in arms and in battle, battling this group of 100 of early Zionists fighters (at the time, radicals). If to take an example from a source that quotes both sides, it might explain even a panic and total fear by the Zionist side (which might have led to a spiriling fight). As they described Arabs hiding guns in their robes surprisingly firing at their captors after surrendering: Jordan, Second Edition, Hal Marcovitz, Arthur Goldschmidt, Jr., 2009, Culture, p.39 By the spring of 1948, there appeared to be no hope for a peaceful resolution. Both sides took up arms. One of the first major battles was at Deir Yassin, an Arab village that overlooked the highway leading to Jerusalem.  Deir Yassin was considered strategically important because a well-armed group of soldiers hidden ...