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Do you know why the 1948 Arab-Israeli war took place?
Because, after the UN vote which gave the Jews a small state,
the Arabs rejected it, and launched a war against that state,
with the declared intent of killing all the Jews living in it:
<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
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