Reply #29: About the celebration of overcoming incredible odds... [View All]

What were these incredible odds? And what were the war aims of countries like Egypt and Jordan? It's just that 1948 doesn't seem to have been the david vs goliath type epic that Israeli history has in the past painted it as. And the resistance from Israelis generally to any hint that Israel wasn't the vastly outnumbered and disadvantaged party is that they think that if they admit they weren't the ragged, tiny, totally outnumbered party, the legitimacy of Israel is in some way affected...

The late 1940's definately was a time of decolonisation. The former imperial masters did take some persuading, and there's no doubt that Britain would have fought hard to keep its empire if it hadn't been virtually bankrupt after WWII. What they wanted didn't matter. There's no way after the experience of WWII that these former colonies would have meekly allowed their former masters to just walk back in...

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