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NoSpamAtAll <spamnot@not.home> wrote:

> <quote>
> 
> One day after the State of Israel declared itself as an independent nation
> (May 14, 1948), Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqi, Egyptian, and Transjordanian troops,
> supported by Saudi and Yemenite troops, attacked the nascent Jewish state,
> triggering the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. On that day, Azzam Pasha [secretary-general
> of the Arab League between 1945 and 1952] announced:
> 
> "This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be
> spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades".
> 
> </quote>
> 
> Source:  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Rahman_Hassan_Azzam

Bullshit. That’s not correct quote. Not even what you put between <quote>
tags. From that same Wikipedia article:

> In 1961, an Egyptian writer called the quotation "completely out of
> context": "Azzam actually said that he feared that if the people of
> Palestine were to be forcibly and against all right dispossessed, a
> tragedy comparable to the Mongol invasions and the Crusades might not be
> avoidable ... The reference to the Crusaders and the Mongols aptly
> describes the view of the foreign Zionist invaders shared by most Arabs."

There’s a whole chapter there called “Controversy over "war of
extermination" quote”. In short, it’s another Jewish lie. They even lied
about when he said it. In reality, he said it in 1947:

> Azzam's quote was found to have originated in an 11 October 1947
> interview for the Egyptian newspaper Akhbar el-Yom: "Personally I hope
> the Jews do not force us into this war because it will be a war of
> elimination and it will be a dangerous massacre which history will record
> similarly to the Mongol massacre or the wars of the Crusades. I think the
> number of volunteers from outside Palestine will exceed the Palestinian population."

Also from the same article:

> Six days after the Arab intervention in the conflict began, Azzam told
> reporters: "We are fighting for an Arab Palestine. Whatever the outcome
> the Arabs will stick to their offer of equal citizenship for Jews in Arab
> Palestine and let them be as Jewish as they like. In areas where they
> predominate, they will have complete autonomy."