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Today's the 78th anniversary of the Nakba ("Disaster" or "Catastrophe"): the humiliating defeat of the Arabs in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.
On May 14, 1948, the establishment of the State of Israel was declared. The next day, on which the British Mandate expired, the armies of the seven nations of the Arab League----Egypt, Jordan (then Transjordan), Iraq, and Syria, along with support from Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, and Yemen--invaded Israel. In the end, the invasion was unsuccessful and in fact the Arab nations lost territory--to a nation only one day old when the war began.
Constantin Zureiq, the Syrian anti-Zionist and Arab nationalist intellectual who coined the term nakba in his book The Meaning of the Disaster, blames the Arabs for their own defeat: they were disunified, unprepared, and underestimated the strength of the enemy. He warned them to learn from their mistakes.
As we've seen since October 7, the Arabs still underestimate their enemy, to their own continued humiliation.
On May 14, 1948, the establishment of the State of Israel was declared. The next day, on which the British Mandate expired, the armies of the seven nations of the Arab League----Egypt, Jordan (then Transjordan), Iraq, and Syria, along with support from Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, and Yemen--invaded Israel. In the end, the invasion was unsuccessful and in fact the Arab nations lost territory--to a nation only one day old when the war began.
Constantin Zureiq, the Syrian anti-Zionist and Arab nationalist intellectual who coined the term nakba in his book The Meaning of the Disaster, blames the Arabs for their own defeat: they were disunified, unprepared, and underestimated the strength of the enemy. He warned them to learn from their mistakes.
As we've seen since October 7, the Arabs still underestimate their enemy, to their own continued humiliation.
And you say you’re not a Zionist.