From: Michael Ejercito <MEjercit@HotMail.com>
Newsgroups: soc.culture.israel,talk.politics.guns,can.politics,alt.politics.liberalism
Subject: Re: But let's face the facts: the ARABS have STARTED it! (Re: Zionism's Violent Legacy)
Date: Sun, 18 Jan 2026 21:10:45 -0800
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
NefeshBarYochai wrote:
> Ever since this statement was made
>
> <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>
>
> Various Muslim nations and organizations in the Middle East have been
> concentrating their efforts at destroying Israel, and have initiated
> many wars and operations against it.
>
> Yet, amazingly, since then, about 40 times more Muslims have been killed
> by other Muslims in the Middle East, than in all the confrontations with
> Israel combined.
>
I guess attacking Israel was not such a good idea.
Michael