Originally posted by GePap
If you also read the piece you find out that the motives for each varied greatly, and the whole "drive the Jews to the Sea" was more rhetoric for consumption back home than actual policy-
If you also read the piece you find out that the motives for each varied greatly, and the whole "drive the Jews to the Sea" was more rhetoric for consumption back home than actual policy-
Also as I stated previously large Arab armies such as the Iraqi Army on the west bank could have invaded Israel and broken the state in two but that Army held back our of fear they would then be cut off by the Israelis and/or the Palestinian fighters with home the commanding General had an open dispute.
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