British trained forces from Transjordan eventually intervened in the conflict, but only in areas that had been designated as part of the Arab state under the United Nations Partition Plan and the corpus separatum of Jerusalem. After tense early fighting, Israeli forces, now under joint command, were able to gain the offensive. Though the United Nations brokered two cease-fires during the conflict, fighting continued into Israel and the Arab states did not reach any formal armistice agreements until February.
Under separate agreements between Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Lebanon, Transjordan, and Syria, these bordering nations agreed to formal armistice lines. Israel gained some territory formerly granted to Palestinian Arabs under the United Nations resolution in Their hatred of Israel stems from its success at surviving despite wars, terror, boycotts, and constant enmity.
In short, they despise Israel because it has succeeded in areas where they have failed. But why should they hate the Palestinian Arabs? Surely they are deserving of unreserved support? The answer to this question is complex. It is a function of Middle Eastern culture that neither Israelis nor most Westerners fully understand or recognize. One of the worst things to experience, in Arab eyes, is to be cheated, fooled, or taken advantage of.
When someone attempts to cheat an Arab—and even more so, if that person succeeds—the Arab is overcome by furious anger, even if the person who did the cheating was his own cousin. Regarding the Palestinian Arabs, the first point to make is that many of them are not originally Palestinians at all. They are immigrants who came to the Land of Israel from all over the Arab world during the British Mandate in order to find employment in the cities and on the farms the Jews had built.
These immigrants still have names like Hourani from Houran in southern Syria , Tzurani from Tyre in southern Lebanon , Zrakawi from Mazraka in Jordan , Masri the Egyptian , Hijazi from the Hijaz province of the Arabian peninsula , Mughrabi from the Maghreb , and many other names that point to their true geographical origins.
Why, ask the other Arabs, should they get preferential treatment over those who remained in their original countries? In a poll published this week, nearly half of ultra-Orthodox and national religious Israeli youth expressed hatred toward Arabs and noted support for stripping them of their citizenship, a sentiment shared by 23 percent of secular youth.
Secular Jews and Arab Israelis were the most willing to meet one other, while religious nationalists were the least willing to meet Arab citizens, the poll showed. In Streetwise Hebrew for the Times of Israel Community, each month we learn several colloquial Hebrew phrases around a common theme. Correction 21st June An earlier version of this article incorrectly described the US as recognising Israel's claim to the whole of Jerusalem and this has been amended to instead explain that the US recognises the city as Israel's capital.
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