that s the term they used. they used it to make it arab-free and they succeeded. oftentimes you ll hear stories, well, who told the folsz flee? well, when you have armed militias coming in through your towns stealing your land, they are killing your children, you re going to get populations fleeing. at the same time, ben-gurion is making war plans. you know there s going to be a war and it s not just against local palestinians. but it s against foreign arab countries as well. at once british officially leave, a new jewish state will be declared, and with it, a war for jerusalem. and how important it is to know who you are and to know where you came from. we re discovering together. it s been an amazing gift. ho ho ho!
like abdulla of transjordan. abdulla, the son of al shareef in mecca. he considered to be a descendant of the prophet. abdullah arises as this magical wizard and a brilliant and political shrewd mind and smarter than those who came before him. the british liked him. he liked them. he saw himself as a moderate man who could make an arrangement with the british. transjordan was part of the british mandate. abdulla wanted to be the king of this arab land, and possibly by being an ally of the british in the war, he might get handsomely rewarded. in may of 1945, after six years of fighting, and a brutal
disaster. it was the day where basically the dream of having a palestinian state ended. what s celebrated in israel as a wonderful day of independence, for palestinian it s a day that basically meant they have lost any of their national rights. ben-gurion was the first prime minister. ben-gurion was very happy, obviously. he thought he had a tremendous amount more to do. so it was a very emotional moment for many. there was no time or no reflection. and so on may 15th, five arab states declared war against israel. egypt, lebanon, iraq, and syria, but also transjordan that was loyal to king abdullah. the arab countries that are coming in were not just trying
woman. she s all in black, and she s sneaking across the border. it s quite an image. the hope was that they could at least get king abdullah to not attack. but abdullah has long to claim palestine as part of his own kingdom and this war is his last chance to do it. abdullah s interest was very clear. his interest was not to have a palestinian state as the partition plan said, but to get jerusalem and whatever parts of palestine he could grab for himself. so when golda visited him on the eve of british evacuation, he told her, you must also i must also participate in the war.
abdullah said, but we can give you autonomy in a big j jordanen state. why do you rush to state hood? she said, your excellency, we waited 2,000 years for state hood. i think that s enough. we have had enough patience. so golda came back to palestine and said that transjordan are going to fight. and the jordanen army would have used all its power. it might be the end of israel. so ben-gurion prepared all the tools for this moment and this moment came. and it came in the war of 1948.