lol a peace deal dictated by Israel BEFORE Israel existed. Those Jews truly ARE wiley lol
If they were they would have avoided being put into exile by God in the first place.
Israel birthed itself in May of '48. UN181 states that Palestine was to be considered a Nation no later than Oct. 30/48. When is Israel going to recognize that fact? Of right, they can't because taht would make them give up land and require a boat load of cash to the ones displaced (via war crimes) during just that first year, the refugee war crime is a daily occurrence still.
The return paper that needed to be signed was an Israeli document in that it only appeared after may of '48. That is when UN troops should have been put there at the expense of the 33 countries that voted for the creation of Israel.
Well aside from being entirely untrue (Israel was massively outgunned in the war of '48) if it were true it would be a pretty good reason to not start a war, doncha think?
Stop with the lies that have been refuted many times over.
Military assessments
Benny Morris has argued that although, by the end of 1947, the Palestinians "had a healthy and demoralising respect for the Yishuv's military power", they believed in decades or centuries "that the Jews, like the
medieval crusader kingdoms, would ultimately be overcome by the Arab world".
[62]
On the eve of the war the number of Arab troops likely to be committed to the war was about 23,000 (10,000 Egyptians, 4,500 Jordanians, 3,000 Iraqis, 3,000 Syrians, 2,000 ALA volunteers, 1,000 Lebanese and some Saudi Arabians), in addition to the irregular Palestinians already present. The Yishuv had 35,000 troops of the Haganah, 3,000 of Stern and Irgun and a few thousand armed settlers.
[63]
On 12 May David Ben-Gurion was told by his chief military advisers, "who over-estimated the size of the Arab armies and the numbers and efficiency of the troops who would be committed", that Israel's chances of winning a war against the Arab states were only about even.
[64]
[edit] Yishuv forces
In November 1947, the Haganah was an underground paramilitary force that had existed as a highly organized, national force, since the riots of 1920–21, and throughout the
riots of 1929, and Great Uprising of 1936–39
[65] It had a mobile force, the
HISH, which had 2,000 full time fighters (men and women) and 10,000 reservists (all aged between 18 and 25) and an elite unit, the
Palmach composed of 2,100 fighters and 1,000 reservists. The reservists trained 3–4 days a month and went back to civilian life the rest of the time. These mobile forces could rely on a garrison force, the HIM (
Heil Mishmar, lit. Guard Corps), composed of people aged over 25. The Yishuv's total strength was around 35,000 with 15,000 to 18,000 fighters and a garrison force of roughly 20,000.
[66] The two clandestine groups
Irgun and
Lehi had 2,000–4,000 and 500–800 members, respectively. There were also several thousand men and women who had served in the British Army in World War II who did not serve in any of the underground militias but would provide valuable military experience during the war.
[67] Walid Khalidi says the Yishuv had the additional forces of the Jewish Settlement Police, numbering some 12,000, the Gadna Youth Battalions, and the armed settlers.
[68] Few of the units had been trained by December 1947.
[69]
In 1946 Ben-Gurion decided that the Yishuv would probably have to defend itself against both the Palestinian Arabs and neighbouring Arab states and accordingly began a "massive, covert arms acquisition campaign in the West". By September 1947 the Haganah had "10,489 rifles, 702 light machine-guns, 2,666 submachine guns, 186 medium machine-guns, 672 two-inch mortars and 92 three-inch (76 mm) mortars" and acquired many more during the first few months of hostilities. The Yishuv also had "a relatively advanced arms producing capacity", that between October 1947 and July 1948 "produced 3 million 9 mm bullets, 150,000
Mills grenades, 16,000 submachine guns (
Sten Guns) and 210 three-inch (76 mm) mortars",
[70] along with a few "
Davidka" homemade mortars that were highly inaccurate but had a spectacularly loud explosion that demoralized the enemy. Initially, the Haganah had no heavy machine guns, artillery, armored vehicles, anti-tank or anti-aircraft weapons,
[71] nor military aircraft or tanks.
[72]
Sources disagree about the amount of arms at the Yishuv's disposal at the end of the Mandate. According to Karsh before the arrival of arms shipments from
Czechoslovakia as part of
Operation Balak, there was roughly one weapon for every three fighters, and even the Palmach armed only two out of every three of its active members.
[73] According to Collins and LaPierre, by April 1948 the Haganah had managed to accumulate only about 20,000 rifles and Sten guns for the 35,000 soldiers who existed on paper.
[74] According to Walid Khalidi "the arms at the disposal of these forces were plentiful".
[68]
[edit] Arab forces
There was no national military organisation in the Arab Palestinian community. There were two paramilitary youth organizations, the pro-
Husayni Futuwa and the anti-Husayni
Najjada ("auxiliary corps"). According to Karsh, these groups had 11,000–12,000 members,
[75] but according to Morris, the Najjada, which was based in Jaffa and had 2,000–3,000 members, was destroyed in the run-up to the 1948 war, during Husayni's attempt to seize control of it, and the Futuwa never numbered more than a few hundred.
[76] At the outbreak of the war, new local militia groups, the National Guard, mushroomed in towns and cities. Each was answerable to its local Arab National Committee.
[77]
In December, Abd al-Qadir Husseini arrived in Jerusalem with one hundred combatants who had trained in Syria and that would form the cadre of the Holy War Army. His forces were joined by a few hundred young villagers and veterans of the British army.
[78]
The equipment of the Palestinian forces was very poor. The British confiscated most of their arsenal during the 1936–39 rebellion and World War II
[79] A report of 1942 by the Haganah intelligence service assessed the number of firearms at the disposal of the Palestinian at 50,000 [but] this was probably an overestimate
[80] or even "highly exaggerated".
[81]
The
Arab Liberation Army (
Jaysh al-Inqadh al-Arabi) had been set up by the Arab League. It was an army of around 6,000 volunteers, largely from Arab countries, and was led by
Fawzi al-Qawuqji. Its officially allotted area was northern Palestine, including
Samaria.
Jordan's
Arab Legion was considered the most effective Arab force. Armed, trained and commanded by British officers, this 8,000–12,000 strong force was organised in four infantry/mechanised regiments supported by some 40 artillery pieces and 75 armoured cars. Until January 1948, it was reinforced by the 3,000-strong
Transjordan Frontier Force.
[80]
As many as 48
British officers served in the Jordanian
Arab Legion;
[82] probably the Jordanian forces were the best trained of all combatants. Other combatant forces lacked the ability to make strategic decisions and tactical maneuvers,
[83] as evidenced by positioning the fourth regiment at
Latrun, which was abandoned by other combatants before the arrival of the Jordanian forces. In the later stages of the war, Latrun proved to be of extreme importance, and a decisive factor for Jerusalem's fate.
Glubb Pasha, the commander of the Jordanian Arab Legion, organized his forces into four brigades as follows:
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