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2021-03-14 Israel-Palestine-Jordan

The United States and the Middle East before Israel.

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Posted by Sheger Thromotch7944 2021-03-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Ruling the World is nice.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-03-14 05:19|| 2021-03-14 05:19|| Front Page Top

#2 Previously covered by Michael B. Oren's "Power, Faith and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present." (2007)

Posted by b 2021-03-14 11:03|| 2021-03-14 11:03|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ A great book

Posted by Frank G 2021-03-14 12:34|| 2021-03-14 12:34|| Front Page Top

#4 Several things are overlooked that had some importance.
First, the support of Soviet Russia for the creation of Israel, and the importance of Czech arms shipments to Israel in the resulting war of 1948 are not mentioned.
Second the Arabs of Palestine are said to have "revolted" in the 1920s and 30s against British rule. while the Haganah and Irgun are described as terrorists, in the subsequent fighting. Actually the Arab Revolt consisted almost entirely of acts of terror against defenseless Jewish populations, Haganah and Irgun were created to defend those populations and were forced to act against the British, who favored the Arabs militarily almost constantly.
Thirdly, the failure of the invasion of Israel by armies from Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, Egypt and Jordan and an irregular British supported army consisting of Bosnian fascists, was not caused by the superiority in numbers of the Jews, but of the military incompetence of all but the British trained and officered and supplied Jordanian army.
In fact the anti-Israel fervor in the Arab world was cultivated by the British government in a futile effort to curry favor with the Arab Nationalists, whose main enemy was actually Britain itself (until the Suez war). The Soviets then took to opposing Israel through supplying Egypt and Syria with arms, mainly as a way to cripple US influence in the Arab world, with results that usually embarrassed themselves.
Finally the large scale expulsions of Jews from the Arab world, which exceeded in number that of Arabs who fled from Palestine in 1947-8, is not mentioned at all.
Also the attribution of government actions to the influence of single influential non-government advisers occurs often in this video, and is, like all such attributions on any subject, a claim that is a conclusion about what influenced the minds of others.Such claims cannot be known with certainty, even by the actors themselves, let alone by a historian.

Posted by daniel 2021-03-14 15:59|| 2021-03-14 15:59|| Front Page Top

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