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Sunday, April 05, 2009
Zionist propaganda
"The Palestine Arabs enjoyed the support of the vast hinterland of Arab states, who, though in niggardly fashion, sent arms, money and, between December 1947 and February 1948, a 4,000-strong force of relatively well-equipped volunteers, most of them Syrians and Iraqis, known as the Arab Liberation Army (ALA). The ALA had medium and heavy mortars, armored cars, and, by April, half a dozen field pieces. In addition, hundreds of lightly armed Muslim Brotherhood volunteers arrived in southern Palestine from North Africa." Zionist propaganda needs to be updated. They never stop talking about the "seven Arab armies" and the "volunteers" when in reality, at the height of the conflict the ratio of armed men was 3 to 1 to the advantage of the Zionists who were superior in weapons and training. And the rag tag Arab armies were so poorly prepared and (dis)organized that they often shot at one other for lack of coordination.