I accept the first link, but surely the second link is just Zionist propaganda, if you would like I can show thousands of Palestinian propaganda links? To be honest, we should refer to trusted links only! Unless if I want to prove anti Zionism views by using their sources or if you want to prove anti Palestinian views from Palestinian sources. By following this strategy , we can keep the high level of the discussions.
From your first source:
((At this time (1922) the population of Palestine consisted of approximately
589,200 Muslims, 83,800 Jews and 71,500 Christians. However, this area became
the center of Zionist aspirations for a Jewish homeland or state, and gradually saw a large influx of Jewish immigrants. (most of whom were fleeing the increasing persecution in Europe) This immigration drew immediate and violent opposition from local Arabs.))
It is clear who the source of the problems: the Zionism project to create Jews State one land of other nation ignoring the rights of Muslims and Christine. By the way, many repels in that time were Christian Palestinian, and one of their leader called Faud Hujazi (from Hebron) was hanged in the jail of Acca by the British occupation forces.
((Right after the UN partition plan was approved, heavy fighting broke out in Palestine. The British Army frequently intervened, but
as the end of British involvement in Palestine drew nearer and attacks on them by Irgun and Lehi increased, their intervention grew steadily more inconsistent and reluctant.
On December 18 the Palmach,
the kibbutz-based force of the Haganah commanded by Moshe Dayan, attacked the village of Khissas. Three weeks later the first Arab irregulars arrived and the Arab leadership began to organize Palestinians in order to wage guerrilla war against the Jewish forces.))
It is clear who started to attack after the UN partition plan? Irgun, Lihi and Hagnah,
after 3 weeks of Zionist attacks , the Palestinian started to organize themselves to fight back!
((
The April 9 massacre of at least 109 Arabs at the village of Deir Yassin
inflamed public opinion in Arab countries, providing those countries further reason for sending regular troops into the conflict. ))
Arab countries decided to join the fighting after the Zionists murdered all the citizens of the village Dair Yassin. The kidnapped many girls and raped them in public in western Jerusalem to terrorize the Palestinian, such barbarism
forced thousands of Arab to participate and to protect the Palestinian civilians.
((To lift the siege, the Jewish forces (guided by
the American Army Colonel David (Mickey) Marcus) constructed the Burma Road (named for the road built by the Allies from Burma to China during World War II..))
Many American and European participate the fighting against Palestinian people, so why you think it is legal for them to fight with Zionists, but another Arab are not allowed?
(( On May 10, Golda Meir represented the Yishuv in the last of a long series of clandestine meetings between the Zionists and Transjordan's King Abdullah. Whereas for months there
had been a tacit agreement between the Zionists and Transjordan to prevent the establishment of a Palestinian state, with Transjordan taking over the Arab areas, at the May 10 meeting Abdullah offered the Yishuv leadership only autonomy within an enlarged Hashemite kingdom. This was unacceptable to the Jewish leadership. ))
In fact Arab governments helped the Zionists more than their help to Palestine. Zionists made many secret agreements with kings of (Jordan, Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Egypt). They were puppet in the hands of UK, but also they could not stop the anger of their nations after Dair Yassin massacre.
((In fact,
the Arab forces were inferior to the IDF. By mid-May 1948 the IDF was fielding 65,000 troops; by early spring 1949,
115,000. The Arab armies had an estimated 40,000 troops in July 1948, rising to
55,000 in October 1948, and slightly more by the spring of 1949. Of the Arab aircraft, only less than a dozen fighters and three to four bombers saw action, the rest were unserviceable. With only a dozen or so airplanes the IDF achieved
air superiority by the fall of 1948. And the IDF had
superiority in firepower and knowledgeable personnel, many of whom had seen action in WWII. Source: "Righteous Victims: A History of the Zionist-Arab Conflict, 1881-2001",
Benny Morris (2001), pp. 217-18.))
I wish you can read how the gap between the two forces, even after Arab nations joined the war! Suppose the rest of Arab did not participate, then the Zionists will stop after the death of last Palestinian.
I wish to read your source carefully … it contain many interested information from Israeli sources
sid_galt said:
arab-israeli war
http://www.palestinefacts.org/pf_independence_arab_countries.php
The Arabs started the war against Israel and Israel staunchly defended itself. As I said before, trouble to the general populace is inevitable during war.