Reply #95: So it is reasonable to expect them to start a war? [View All]

[Shaktimaan]

Let me get this straight... Even though half of the Jewish half was desert... even though 70-something percent of Palestine had already been sectioned off to become an Arab state from the get go... even though the Partition Plan was only invented in the first place because of a Palestinian refusal to share the land with Jewish immigrants... even though Israel required the additional room to allow for a large influx of Holocaust refugees (among others)... and even though there already existed massively vast expanses of Arab land compared to only around 5000 square miles proposed for Israel, you think that the UN agreement was so unreasonable that the only RATIONAL course of action was for the Palestinians to start a WAR with the expressed intent of driving out 35% of the population?

And to expect otherwise is "insane?"

BTW, so the Jews only owned 7% as opposed to the Arab 13%, yet you refer to the whole thing as "half of their (Arab) land." I think the cause of the war is evident in that very sentence. It didn't matter if Israel was only proposed to be on 5% of the land, it would still have led to war because the Palestinians saw it as entirely THEIR land. Just as many still do.