a patchwork of palestine unfavorable for both sides the arabs rejected the plan the jews accepted it after the holocaust they wanted their own state unconditionally. the arab countries were incensed to them all of palestine was arab. they wanted to prevent a jewish state by all means over two hundred years but killed in two months of violence. and the nazi collaborator grand mufti had to mean a hussaini back to the escalating violence supported by iraqi and syrian militants . oddly in war. all those many of the palestinian arabs especially from the middle and upper class the not like the senior leadership it was extremist it was fanatical it was stupid. they didn t want to fight under hussein the leaders and hussein the
but we also took the opportunity to help them out a little with guns in. the north slope of. the jewish defenses were proving ineffective money arab attacks intensify and. the problem was that by april april and early me one thousand nine hundred forty eight the jewish side it wasn t winning the war at by the beginning of april and it knew that the arab states intended to send their armies into palestine to help the palestinians to defeat the jews there the jews knew this the arab states continuously said we re going to invade. so they had to basically clear the rear areas before the arab states invaded before the armies of the arab states invaded because they knew that if they have to fight along the front lines against arab states and in the rear their arab militias shooting them from the back they were not going to win the war. four hundred arab villages were destroyed or depopulated
was only the beginning the more genes sought refuge in palestine the more threatened saini salta arab interest in one thousand thirty six he founded and headed the influential arab higher committee from then on the riots became part of everyday life especially in jerusalem. of its head. after the arab revolt broke out arabs and jews separated. you can t be in love with each other when you re a war. jews should be arming themselves since before nine hundred twenty the illegal underground militia had and now was a trained combat troop tolerated by the british administration dannie the baker s son was seventeen years old and practically a veteran he joined the haka now at fourteen back when it was still banned and the british were the enemy. just seven years later and nine hundred thirty nine down
rights cannot protect him. if he dies there he ll die in a foreign country what about the three of you. the foreign country on the other side of the border enemy territory. lebanon expelled the jewish population from the country after nine hundred forty eight as did many other arab countries. most of the eight hundred fifty thousand jewish refugees became israelis. they live in a country crisscrossed by fences and increasing border fortifications not exactly conducive to peace. and the old days in the books where she moaned and i left the young man from berlin a simple wooden tower with sufficient protection from arab brains. in more recent times this concrete bunker provided shelter during missile strikes from lebanon. damage to ft.
a small bakery with twenty five workers jews and arabs danny built the business up to become one of israel s largest bakeries to hand it was not just a factory but a home with jews and arabs working side by side. the history of israel is also the story of danny and tell he lived out his parents training they believed in a peaceful middle east without hatred and without borders. but even as a child danny learned that this togetherness shouldn t be taken for granted arab extremists attacked the jewish quarter of hebron and nine hundred twenty nine killing sixty seven people including his uncle s entire family. danny was just ten years old. that was a disaster. an utterly inhuman act and people were