Destiny
"We extend our hand
to all neighboring states and their peoples in an offer of
peace and goodwill, and appeal to them to establish bonds
of cooperation and mutual help with the sovereign Jewish
people settled in its own land." - David Ben-Gurion, in
Israel's Proclamation of Independence, May 14, 1948
“This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades.” - Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League, at a Cairo press conference, (reported in the New York Times, May 16, 1948)
"The Arab states encouraged the Palestinian Arabs to leave their homes temporarily in order to be out of the way of the Arab invasion armies. And it was clearly intimated that those Arabs who remained in Haifa and accepted Jewish protection would be regarded as renegades." - The London Economist (1948), reporting on an eyewitness account of the flight of Haifa's Arabs,
“Kill the Jews wherever you find them, this is pleasing to Allah.” - Mufti el-Husseini, a Nazi collaborator, calling for Jihad against Jews, in a 1943 broadcast from Radio Berlin.
Wikipedia links to the establishment of the state of Israel, and to the Arabs.
Books to explore:
(with amazon.com links)
O Jerusalem by Larry Collins & Dominique
Genesis 1948 by Dan Kurzman
Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present
by Michael B. Oren
“This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades.” - Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League, at a Cairo press conference, (reported in the New York Times, May 16, 1948)
"The Arab states encouraged the Palestinian Arabs to leave their homes temporarily in order to be out of the way of the Arab invasion armies. And it was clearly intimated that those Arabs who remained in Haifa and accepted Jewish protection would be regarded as renegades." - The London Economist (1948), reporting on an eyewitness account of the flight of Haifa's Arabs,
“Kill the Jews wherever you find them, this is pleasing to Allah.” - Mufti el-Husseini, a Nazi collaborator, calling for Jihad against Jews, in a 1943 broadcast from Radio Berlin.
Wikipedia links to the establishment of the state of Israel, and to the Arabs.
Books to explore:
(with amazon.com links)
O Jerusalem by Larry Collins & Dominique
Genesis 1948 by Dan Kurzman
Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East: 1776 to the Present
by Michael B. Oren