• @stonedemoman
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    10 months ago

    BTW I just wanted to share some quotes and information with you since you seem to think Plan Dalet was expansionist and not precipitated. Not to mention those villages were either actively or imminently hostile.

    “This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades.” Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League. October 11, 1947 report on the pan-Arab summit

    “The Arabs have taken into their own hands the final solution of the Jewish problem. The problem will be solved only in blood and fire. The Jews will soon be driven out.” Arab Higher Committee circular. 1947

    “The surviving Jews would be helped to return to their native countries, but my estimation is that none will survive” Ahmed Shuqeiri (later PLO chief) quoted in Churchill and Churchill, p. 52

    "There are over one million Jews in the Arab Lands. Their lives will be forfeit as well when we conquer the Jews.” Azzam Pasha, the Arab League General Secretary, May 1948.