WHAT REALLY HAPPENED IN 1948 (From a Palestinian - now Israeli - Arab)

Front Page Magazine ^ | December 28, 2004 | Sarah El Shazly

[abu afak]

GREAT ARTICLE!

the best in quite some time

[Ippolita]

Two small additions:

1. The Mufti of Jerusalem who in 1948 broadcast the message of the Arabs for the Palestinians to leave Palestine immediately was a certain Husseini - granddad to the recently departed Yasser Arafat!!!

2. Jordan did allow Palestinians into Jordan, and did extend citizenship.
by the mid-sixties the Palestininas, newley Jordanian, counted themselves: 1,600,000 Palestininas to 900,000 Jordanians. They then decided they were going to take over the country.
The granddad of the now King of Jordan, King Husseini I, had to kick them out and suppress the rebellion in a bloodbath which became known as Black September.

Events of September, 1970

On September 1, 1970, an attempt to kill the king failed. On September 6, in the series of Dawson's Field hijackings, three planes were hijacked by PFLP: a SwissAir and a TWA in Zarqa and a BOAC in Cairo, on September 9, a British Airways plane at Amman, the passengers were held hostage. The PFLP announced that the hijackings were designed "to teach the Americans a lesson because of their longstanding support of Israel". The planes were demonstratively blown up in front of TV cameras. Directly confronting and angering the King, the rebels declared Irbid area a "liberated region".


On September 16, King Hussein declared martial law. The next day, Jordanian tanks (the 60th armored brigade) attacked the headquarters of Palestinian organizations in Amman; the army also attacked camps in Irbid, Salt, Sweileh and Zarqa. Then the head of Pakistani training mission to Jordan, General Zia ul Hak, took command of the 2nd division.


The armored troops were inefficient in narrow city streets, and after first casualties they resorted to unobserved shelling. Soon, many city blocks were left with no electricity, food or water. Some Palestinians deserted from the Jordanian army. Brigadier Bajahat Muhaisein (a Jordanian who had a Palestinian wife) quit.


On September 18, Syrian armored forces began invasion into Jordan. In three days, with support of Palestine Liberation Army (PLA), they were the size of a division and were met by the 40th armored brigade of Jordanian army.


In light of the recent war, after unsuccessful attempts to avert the increasing danger diplomatically, Israel Air Force planes made low overflights over the Syrian tanks as a sign of warning. Soon Syrian troops began to withdraw. Hafez al-Assad, the Syrian defense minister at the time, later said that Syria invaded Jordan in order to protect the Palestinians.


Meanwhile, both Hussein and Arafat attended the meeting of leaders of Arab countries in Cairo and on September 27 Hussein signed an agreement that treated both sides as equals and acknowledged the right of the Palestinian organizations to operate in Jordan. The next day, Egypt's Nasser died of a sudden heart attack.


Estimates of the number Palestinians killed in the ten days of Black September range from five to over ten thousand, although exact numbers are unknown. The reporters were concentrated at the Intercontinental hotel, away from the action. Major radio stations, BBC Arabic service and Voice of the Arabs from Cairo were both pro-Palestinian and reported alleged genocide.

[American in Israel]

Please do not speak of money. Palestinian refugees receive aid from all over the world, and yet their living conditions don’t seem to improve. The "hosting" governments siphon off some money to line their pockets, and the Palestinian Authority -- or lack of it -- siphons off the rest … and the poor people get nothing.

The US sends two times more money to Palestine in a year than the Arabs made with all their industry and jobs in Israel combined before the Oslo war started. Now the man in the street is starving and cannot afford bread, and the terrorists drive BMW's and have unlimited weapons.

It does not take a bright bulb to figure out where that Tax Money is going. How is Bush going to fix it? Why double the money, for "peace".

More blood, more terror, more death is what we will reap.

If everyone would stop sending money to terrorists, they would go broke and this war would be over, THEN we WOULD have peace.

[SunkenCiv]

The fact is that the Arab world warned the Palestinians against staying with the Jews. They also warned them that Arabs were going in to fight the Zionists and that the Palestinians should leave to avoid getting hurt.

Gosh, I've read that somewhere before... oh yeah... in the accounts of the War of Independence written by Israeli Jews.

[SunkenCiv]

Oops, I forgot to mention, this is an old topic. :')