The idea that the 1948 “war” was started by the Arabs, whereas Israel only reacted in self defense is so false yet so ingrained everywhere.
People don’t realize that by the time the first Arab soldier entered Palestine already over 200,000 Palestinians had been ethnically cleansed from Palestine.
The Zionists literally had to PROVOKE the Palestinians to fight them even after that, as the majority just saw that the land was being transferred from one colonial power to the other, they weren’t interested in fighting.
You have a direct quote from David Ben Gurion himself while addressing the Jewish Agency Executive in March 1948:
‘I believe the majority of the Palestinian masses accept the partition as a fait accompli and do not believe it is possible to overcome or reject it… The decisive majority of them do not want to fight us’
The idea of removing the Palestinians was not something that happened as a consequence of “war” between two sides. It was the goal of the war from the very beginning, you have damning quotes years and years before the war planning this. The Diary of Yossef Weitz, one of Ben Gurions advisers and the head of the Settlement Department of the Jewish Agency tells the hard truth of Zionist goals that people tend to ignore:
‘Transfer, does not serve only one aim -to reduce the Arab population- it also serves a second purpose by no means less important, which is: to evict land now cultivated by Arabs and to free it for Jewish settlement. Therefore, the only solution is to transfer the Arabs from here to neighboring countries. Not a single village or a single tribe must be let off.’
This was written in 1940. This was a casual entry in the diary of Yossef Weitz.
The idea that the Zionists were some peaceful settlers who just wanted to share the land but the big mean Arabs refused is a complete and utter fabrication.
















