The Right To Destroy Jewish History

[rylah]

Arab Caught with Treasure Trove of Archeological Artifacts

Police were looking for illegal weapons, instead they found an archaeological treasure trove.

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[rylah]

Yes, David defeated Goliath​

“David against Goliath” “Few Against Many” was one of the ethos on which the story of Israel was built upon. The idea that the young and small state of Israel succeeded against all odds to repel the invasion of the armies of Transjordan, Iraq, Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Saudia… with the assistance of many other Arab countries.
This is also why he is one of the focal points of the attacks of the “New Historians”, the New Historians said that Israel had the advantage both in manpower and in arms, and denied what they regarded as the myth of a heroic liberation war of the few against the many and so, to try to conclude that the 1948 war was not a war for the survival of the Jewish people against aggressive Arab armies, And so it contributes in a sense to the Nakba narrative.

On the surface, it seems that the facts supporting this assertion, just looks at the manpower of both sides, it is clear that the Israeli side had a much greater manpower over its enemies.

From Wikipedia page on the 1948 war

So is this the truth?
Was the State of Israel really more powerful
than its enemies at the time of its establishment?

Manpower and actual Fighters​

Here’s a small detail that most of those “new historians” do not give so much attention to:

As Yoav Gelber explained, This statistic, however, is somewhat misleading.

The Israeli figures included
the IDF’s entire logistic infrastructure, which lacked a parallel among the
invaders whose supply depots and base installations remained at home [1]

Asaf Agin explains that in the absence of preliminary sources, the researchers relied in their calculations on the “conscripts” of the IDF and these distorted the picture since the “services” component was not taken into account. For example, at the end of July 1948, only 42% of the conscripts were field troops and more than 25% were service (logistics, support, clerical, etc.). At the same time, the Arab’s data were the full fighters and hence a sharp distortion in the assessment of the balance of power [2]

Another breakdown of the forces shows that only some of the recruits were actual fighters [3]

Recruited from April 1, 1948 to July 17, from right to left, The total number of recruits, how many of them were field fighters and their general numerical ratio

On April 1, 1948. The Jewish Defensive Force had a total of 21,775 conscripts, of which 15,815 were field fighters. On July 17' it was 63,586, of which 27,428 were field fighters.

When considering this data, the result looks like this:

Asaf Agin’s data [2]

On the day of the invasion of the Arab armies, on May 15, 1948, the Jews had a defensive force of 22,363 against an Arab attack force of at least 36,450

What the numbers do not include is “Faza”, The Faza’a militia was the system where an Arab sheikh could call up the males in his district for attack or defence, The potential numbers are estimated at 50,000, but most of their activities was limited to their village area[4]

Arm Balance​

At its first session on May 16, the provisional Israeli government heard prime minister and minister of defense David Ben-Gurion offer a stark survey of the military situation. “The number of [Jewish] recruits has exceeded 30,000, but only 40% of them are armed due to the lack of rifles,” he told his colleagues. “The [Arabs] are using artillery, aircraft and tanks, while we have a single tank and a number of [captured] British armored cars.” Ben-Gurion was confident that Israel would be able to turn the tables on the invading armies after the arrival of newly bought weapons. Until that happened, he anticipated a period of great uncertainty. “In my opinion we’ll be able to teach them a lesson they’ll remember for generations,” he said. “But for the time being the situation is extremely serious.” [5]

The arms on May 15, 1948 [6]

Israel suffered from a lack of heavy equipment from the start of the war. According to Morris, the Israelis had 12 armored cars of which four had canon, three tanks, three half-tracks and three patrol vessels. By the end of May Israel had acquired 10 additional tanks and about a dozen half tracks. Morris credits Israeli forces with about “one hundred armored trucks and personnel carriers,” but most of these, he admits were homemade vehicles created by “armor” plating trucks.

The Arab armies, according to Morris, had about 75 combat aircraft, 40 tanks, 500 armored vehicles, 140 field guns and 220 anti-aircraft and anti-tank guns. [7]

Morris also tells us that by July the Israelis had about 300 armored cars and half-tracks, 15 tanks, 150 artillery pieces and over a dozen fighter aircraft including Spitfires and Messerschmitt 109s (or Avia — a Czech imitation), as well as 16 bombers and 50 light and transport planes. while the Egyptians had at least 132 light tanks and 3 Sherman tanks, and the Syrians had 45 Renault R-35 and R-39 light tanks. [8]

Examples from the field​

A collection of anecdotes that shows what was the state of balance of power in the war:

The Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem​

For Jews:
Manpower: 200
Machine guns: 2
Mortars: 1
Shells: 95
Cannons:0
Armored:0

For Arabs:
Manpower: 700 +Hundreds of gang members
Machine guns: 25
Mortars: 6 (4 heavy)
Shells: 2,000
Cannons: 12
Armored: 4
[9]

Haifa​

The British estimated that in the battle for Haifa, some ‘2,000’ Arab militiamen were set against ‘400 trained Jews backed by an indeterminate number of reserves [10]

Battle of Mishmar HaEmek​

On 4 April 1948, about 1,000 Arab Liberation Army (ALA) militiamen launched an attack on the kibbutz.[11] They were initially opposed by 170 Jews and later, two companies of the Palmach, “less than 300 boys.”[12]

Battles of the Kinarot Valley​

On May 20,
Some 380 Jewish fighters stopped an attack of 1,500 Syrian soldiers armed with 12 tanks and 18 armored vehicles [13]

Conclusion​

Contrary to the claims of the “Mythbusters”, the young state of Israel really had to survive an attack by Arab armies with a quantitative and qualitative advantage, in manpower and arms.
Against all odds.

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[Sixties Fan]

 

[surada]

He said. Based on what? Being a Hashemite Arab Muslim who gladly took 78% of the Jewish Homeland out of the Mandate for Palestine for the Jewish Homeland and expelled all the Jews from TranJordan ? Without one ounce of remorse for it?

I know. The Zionists wanted all the land and a piece of Lebanon and Syria, but other people already lived there.

 

[Sixties Fan]

I know. The Zionists wanted all the land and a piece of Lebanon and Syria, but other people already lived there.

Your ignorance and disgust for Jews, or rather Israelis, is well known.

Keep not caring about any facts. It is so enjoyable to witness. UGHHHHHH !!!!

 

[surada]

Your ignorance and disgust for Jews, or rather Israelis, is well known.

Keep not caring about any facts. It is so enjoyable to witness. UGHHHHHH !!!!

You can't dispute that Muslims and Christians already lived there for thousands of years.

 

[rylah]

You can't dispute that Muslims and Christians already lived there for thousands of years.

There haven't been neither Muslims nor Christians for "thousands of years",
your knowledge of the basic history is lacking, to say the least.

Are you a member of the largest illiterate group on earth?

A Note on Arabic Literacy and Translation

Discover the impact of illiteracy and translation limitations in the Arab world. Learn how increasing access to education and literature can help.

www.altalang.com

 

[surada]

There haven't been neither Muslims nor Christians for "thousands of years",
your knowledge of the basic history is lacking, to say the least.

Are you a member of the largest illiterate group on earth?

A Note on Arabic Literacy and Translation

Discover the impact of illiteracy and translation limitations in the Arab world. Learn how increasing access to education and literature can help.

www.altalang.com

Arabs were in Palestine and the Levant before Islam. The Akkadians from Arabia we're there long before Judaism.

 

[rylah]

I know. The Zionists wanted all the land and a piece of Lebanon and Syria, but other people already lived there.

I don't see how claiming your legal entitlement,
to what is rightfully yours can be considered a crime.

But is it out of consideration for the involved people 'living there',
that Arab imperialists seek exclusive domination over the
entire Middle East, North Africa...and then some?

Arafat: "We want one Arab state from Morocco to Arabia"

 

[surada]

I don't see how claiming your legal entitlement,
to what is rightfully yours can be considered a crime.

But is it out of consideration for the involved people 'living there',
that Arab imperialists seek exclusive domination over the
entire Middle East, North Africa...and then some?

Arafat: "We want one Arab state from Morocco to Arabia"

Jews are a tiny minority do you want the whole Middle East? Nobody wants a Caliphate.

 

[rylah]

Jews are a tiny minority do you want the whole Middle East? Nobody wants a Caliphate.

Unlike Arab supremacists
Jews never claimed exclusive
domination over the entire Middle East.

'Caliphate', i.e exclusive Arab domination is
exactly how Islamists incite their useful idiots.

Is there anything that Islamists seek beyond the
'janna' of sexual perversion and imperialist greed?

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

The Zionists wanted all the land and a piece of Lebanon and Syria, but other people already lived there.

That's outrageous!!

Thank goodness Muslims never wanted any land that other people already lived on.

 

[surada]

That's outrageous!!

Thank goodness Muslims never wanted any land that other people already lived on.

Arabs have been there since the Akkadians and Amorites.. long before Judaism.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

Arabs have been there since the Akkadians and Amorites.. long before Judaism.

That's awesome!

Thank goodness Muslims never wanted any land that other people already lived on.

 

[surada]

That's awesome!

Thank goodness Muslims never wanted any land that other people already lived on.

There were very few Jews in Palestine. See the Ottoman census of 1870.

 

[Sixties Fan]

There were very few Jews in Palestine. See the Ottoman census of 1870.

Stop this fake reason to deny Jews the right to their ancient homeland.

No one, including you, does it to any other people on the planet.

 

[surada]

Stop this fake reason to deny Jews the right to their ancient homeland.

No one, including you, does it to any other people on the planet.

The Palestinians are descended from Jewish farmers who didn't leave in the first century.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

There were very few Jews in Palestine. See the Ottoman census of 1870.

That's awesome!

Thank goodness Muslims never wanted any land that other people already lived on.

 

[Toddsterpatriot]

The Palestinians are descended from Jewish farmers who didn't leave in the first century.

The conflict is between Jews and Jews? Then why are you whining so much about it?

 

[Sixties Fan]

The Palestinians are descended from Jewish farmers who didn't leave in the first century.

They are not, and you need to stop telling that lie.

Palestinian JEWS, are descendants from any Jew back then. Just as are all other Jews who are indigenous from that area and migrated with their religion to other parts of the world. Because they could, because they were forced to. No matter what the reason THOSE are the indigenous people of the land, and not Arabs who came from the Arabian Peninsula.

Palestinian Arabs are descendants of the invading Arabs, second invasion after the Kurds, and all other invading colonizing migrating Arab who moved to the area since the 7th century, and Especially since 1896, then hundreds of thousands of Arabs moved to the region due to jobs offered by Jews or after 1920, after Al Husseini and other Arab leaders begged Arabs to move to the region.