instead of being ruled by the british. man that division meant the jews would rule one part we another and in the end we could live together and live there in asia. but the partition plan made 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 .
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 by the jews in this war. like lift or near jerusalem the abandoned houses are reminder of the face have the palestinian people. little is left of the arab village to. the site is now an industrial area on the outskirts of jerusalem the n.t.l. bakery is located here. and national debt is seeing. more ron i didn t like what happened in the area seen so little it was
leader the arab militias will defeat the jews soon but that promise of seven days turned into decades. saddle share this fate with seven hundred and fifty thousand palestinians. who are they refugees or displaced persons to this day there was still a difference of opinion. i would say that. most of the people for who fled their homes fled their homes as a result of the war not in the sense of battle approaching their homes fear of being harmed in battle a general fear of living under jewish a rule which they did not want and so on i would say a minority in a small minority in fact that the end of the day who are physically expelled by the jews in the sense that they stayed in their homes a jewish force conquered their village or town and ordered them to leave in twenty
to travel to palestine there were protests in the d.p. camps. and in television jews took to the streets calling for unrestricted integration for the survivors of the nazi genocide. but the british had restricted entry since nine hundred thirty nine and now that the common enemy hitler was defeated the jews were yesterday s allies. it became a matter of safeguarding future political interests for which the british needed the arab states they reversed their promise to build a home for the jews in palestine a shock for the jewish people a violent response came from the underground zionist militant movement. in july nine hundred forty six it bombed the king david hotel in jerusalem the british administrative headquarters. ninety one people were killed.
damn i miss again i miss and as we smuggle guns and some of our sacks of bread. i had a british friend who turned a blind eye. it was important for us to provide the population with bread but we also took the opportunity to help them out a little with guns in. the north loads of. the jewish defenses were proving ineffective money arab attacks intensifies. 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