'Again you are changing facts to cover the Arab want of annihaliting the Jews after (and before of course) the November 29,1947 UN Number 181 Partion resolution.
The immediate gathering of 5 Arab armies, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, Lebanon and Syria armed with 300 planes, 300 tanks together with 1.2Million Palestinian Arabs declaring that if the partion plan will be approved the Arabs will finish what Hitler begun against the 600,000 Palestinian Jews armed with 10 tanks and 3 planes.I personally have heard on a British documentary about 30 or so years ago Deir Yassin survivors who simply told the truth, stating the Jordanian Legion officers told the Deir Yassin survivors to state that in Deir Yassin there was a pogrom when in fact it was a war situation.
You can keep changing facts, or simply forgetting (hmm?) important parts of history Sohail to fit your Pro Palestinian agenda, but you cannot change the truth simply stated and recorded by Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha - the Secretary General of the Arab League prior to the 1948 war
a war of extermination and momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacre and the Crusades.' The statement contains several historical inaccuracies and exaggerations regarding the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, specifically distorting demographic figures, military strengths, and the context of events like Deir Yassin, while selectively citing Azzam Pasha's rhetoric.
Demographic and Military Discrepancies
- Jewish population: The Yishuv (Jewish community in Mandatory Palestine) numbered around 650,000 in 1947–1948, not 600,000, but they were far from defenseless; the Haganah and other militias mobilized tens of thousands of trained fighters.
- Arab population: The total Arab population of Mandatory Palestine was approximately 1.2 to 1.3 million total, meaning the claim that 1.2 million Palestinian Arabs constituted an active military force is false, as this figure included women, children, and the elderly.
- Arab armies and equipment: The combined invading Arab forces (Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Syria, Lebanon) numbered in the tens of thousands, not a monolithic 1.2-million-strong fighting force, and their actual armor and aircraft counts were significantly lower and plagued by supply shortages and lack of coordination.
Context of Deir Yassin
- The event: The Deir Yassin massacre occurred on April 9, 1948, when Zionist paramilitary groups Irgun and Lehi attacked the village, resulting in the deaths of over 100 Palestinian villagers, including women and children.
- The claim: The assertion that Jordanian Legion officers fabricated a "pogrom" narrative contradicts extensive historical documentation, contemporary Red Cross reports, and testimonies from both perpetrators and survivors confirming the scale of the killings and their-terrifying psychological impact on the wider Palestinian population.
Azzam Pasha's Quote and Intent
- The statement: Arab League Secretary-General Azzam Pasha famously made fiery rhetorical statements warning of a "war of extermination and momentous massacre," often invoked to prove genocidal intent.
- The nuance: Historians note that such rhetoric was typical high-flown pan-Arab political posturing aimed at domestic audiences rather than a literal blueprint for a planned industrial genocide matching the Holocaust, and British and regional intelligence at the time noted the disorganized and competing political goals of the separate Arab states entering the conflict.
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