The responsibility of the Arab regimes for the plight of the people

75 years after the farce of the 1948 war, in which 7 Arab armies were defeated by Zionist gangs and led to the catastrophe of the Palestinian people by displacing the majority of them from their land, many questions still impose themselves about: the truth and nature of the relationship between the emergence of the Palestinian cause after the Balfour Declaration and the emerging Arab national movement at that time led by Sharif Hussein and his son Faisal, who are allied with Britain, and how can seven Arab armies be defeated by Zionist militias or gangs? Were the Arab regimes really serious about the war? If the Arab armies did not intervene and the Palestinians were left in a state of conflict with the Jews, would the Nakba have taken place and the majority of the Palestinian people had been displaced and the State of Israel established? How did this Nakba not end the Palestinian cause and did not put an end to the conflict while the Palestinians are still steadfast and defending their land?

Before addressing the course of the Nakba, we will discuss the historically ambiguous relationship between the Arab leaders, even before independence, with the Palestinian cause. In a letter sent by Sharif Hussein bin Ali (the Sheriff of Mecca) in 1918 after his talks with Henry McMahon, representative of Great Britain, he agreed to the British opinion that Palestine was not included in Britain’s promise to him to establish an Arab state, and this was later confirmed in the document or agreement between Prince Faisal bin Sharif Hussein With the Zionist leader Weizmann on the sidelines of the Paris Peace Conference 1919, where the first agreed that some Arab regions, including Palestine, do not fall within the Arab state promised to the Arabs. The British and the Zionist movement used these two documents to support their efforts to confirm the Balfour Declaration in the League of Nations.

The indolence and complicity of the Arab leaders did not stop at this point, as they continued their complicity even after Britain had failed the Arabs by signing the Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916, in which the British and the French agreed to share the Arab region between them, an agreement that was later revealed by Tsarist Russia, during the great strike that It lasted for six months and the comprehensive revolution that followed it 1936-1939, rejecting the immigration of the Jews and the continuation of their settlement projects with the support of the British Mandate Army, which led to paralysis in the British military and civil facilities and the fall of losses among the Jews and the British army, for fear of the repercussions of this revolution on the Arab masses and that they would rise up In defense of Palestine, especially since many Arab volunteers began flocking to Palestine under the leadership of the Iraqi Fawzi Al-Qawuqji. To avoid that, Britain asked the ruling Arab leaders in Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Transjordan and Yemen to intervene with the Palestinian leaders to stop the revolution and strike. Unfortunately, instead of standing by the revolution, they sent a message. A reassurance to the Palestinians, asking them: "To find peace in order to stop bloodshed, relying on the good intentions of our friend the British government, and its declared desire to achieve justice, and trust that we will continue to seek your assistance." The result of this intervention, which the traditional Palestinian right-wing leaders dealt with, was that the revolution was aborted, which enabled the Jews to expand their immigration and settlement projects, and then there was the Second World War, which the Zionists ably employed in their favor.

With the continuation of the confrontations between the Palestinians and the Zionist gangs supported militarily and politically by Britain, Resolution 181 was passed by the General Assembly on November 15, 1947, stipulating the division of Palestine between Jews and Arabs, 55% for Jews and 44% for Arabs, and Jerusalem would be placed under international trusteeship, and on May 15, 1948 Britain declared On the termination of its mandate over Palestine, and between the partition decision and the declaration of the end of the British mandate and the Jews’ declaration of the independence of their state and the beginning of the Arab-Israeli war, the plot threads were woven against Palestine in which the Arab leaders participated, as they did previously.

The partition resolution issued by the United Nations was non-binding because it was issued by the General Assembly, so how will the State of Israel be established? At that time, the population of Palestine was 2,065,000 people, of whom 1,415,000 were Arabs and 650,000 were Jews, or 31.5% of the total population. He possesses lands that do not exceed 19% of the lands of Mandatory Palestine, and the Palestinians continue their fight in defense of their land, just as the Arab volunteers in the Salvation Army and others constitute a threat and danger to the Jews, the British, and the Arab leaders themselves?

It was necessary to wage a major war that would lead to geographic and demographic changes through which the largest number of Palestinians could be displaced and the Jews would be able to leave vast areas on which to establish their promised state, and this was confirmed by former Knesset member Yeshayahu Ben Fort when he touched on the events of that stage by saying: “There is no Jewish state without evacuation.” Arabs from Palestine and the confiscation and fencing of their lands.

The plot threads began by instigating Britain's Arab leaders to reject the partition decision and supervised the formation of Arab battalions that would fight the war under the pretext of refusing partition and preventing the establishment of the Jewish state. English officers!!

The farce did not stop at this point, but rather went beyond that by controlling the number of soldiers, the quality of their weapons, and the course of the battle. According to the official documents that were announced at the time, the total number of soldiers of the five Arab armies that fought the war was around 26,000 soldiers and increased slightly after the start of the battles, without combat experience and modest weapons and without prior coordination between them or a real will to fight for most of them, which pushed the Zionist movement into the battlefield About 100,000 fighters equipped with the latest weapons and combat experience gained through their participation in World War II on the side of the Allies.

All of the above are facts confirmed by eyewitnesses and those who participated in the war, such as Commander Abdullah Al-Tal, Aref Al-Aref, Fawzi Al-Qawuqji, and Izzat Darwaza. Gamal Abdel Nasser also touched in his memoirs about the Palestine war and the betrayals that accompanied it, where he says: (It was not reasonable that this was a war.. No. Forces mobilizing, no preparations in arms and ammunition, no plans, no explorations, no information!However, they are here in a battlefield..so it is a political war..it is war and no war; progress without victory, and retreat without defeat..it is war. political only...)

Some should not be surprised by these facts, because with reason and logic, it is inconceivable that Britain, which made the Balfour Declaration and provided the Zionist movement with all forms of political and military support, even left the Zionists its airports and ports in Palestine, while at the same time it supervises the Arab armies and controls their arming and financing... It is unreasonable for it to allow its officers to lead a war against an entity that it created and pledged until the last moment, unless it is a war whose outcome is guaranteed in favor of its protégé and protégé, the Jewish state.

Immediately when the Arab armies entered Palestine, the cities of Lod and Ramla fell into the hands of the Zionists, and the Jordanian army was responsible for defending these two important cities. The British army command and completely dispensing with Lieutenant-General Glubb (known as Glubb Pasha), and the English officers who were with him, because they are undoubtedly working to enable the Zionist forces to cross the borders of the division.” But the king, according to the hill, could not agree to such a proposal, because he He knows that Britain will not accept the idea of dispensing with Globe.

And in the midst of the war, after the Jews achieved great victories and crossed the boundaries of partition, seizing 78% of the area of Palestine, displacing the majority of the Palestinians and destroying 500 villages, the allies of the Zionist movement moved and resorted to the Security Council to issue a resolution to stop the battles and impose a truce on both sides, and the Security Council’s decision to impose the second truce came to consecrate victory. The Jew over the Arab armies The Zionist forces succeeded in expelling all the Arab military forces from Palestine, with the exception of the Jordanian army, which retained the West Bank, and Egypt, which continued its military presence in the Gaza Strip, and thus the United Nations project for partition and the establishment of an independent Palestinian state was eliminated.

Abdullah Al-Tal talks about the repercussions of the war and the state of Arab popular anger over what happened, saying: "What prompted the League of Arab States to participate in the artificial war and to hide its complicity to ask King Abdullah, after the defeat, to dispense with the English officers, headed by Klopp Pasha, or remove them from command The Jordanian Arab Army at least, considering that they are the military responsible for the defeat, of course to create a condemnation upon which they comment before their people their exposed crime, and come up with some face water, and acquit themselves before their people of participating in the crime / defeat, King Abdullah refused that, although their request could be a deed of innocence His and theirs, if it were used, and engineered as the war of defeat was engineered, with the same malice, cunning and deceit, and King Abdullah's answer, in a public session at Raghadan Palace: "I cannot change my saddle in the battle, given that his battle is not over, for the chapter remains." The last, which is separating, annexing, and annexing (the West Bank) to his Hashemite throne, and this last chapter is alone incapable of implementing it. In this case, his saddle and horses must be preserved, even if they drink from the blood of the Jordanian and Palestinian people alike.

And Abdullah Al-Tal goes on to say: "The truth that does not accept any doubt is that the soldiers and officers of the Jordanian army entered Palestine honestly to liberate it and hand it over to its people and owners. They fought the defensive battles with honor, and according to the statements of the army command, they presented (363) martyrs, including (11) officers. The rest are of different military ranks."

You did not find the state of Arab popular anger over what happened, even the coups and revolutions that took place in more than one Arab country against the regimes that were the cause of the defeat did not change much in the tragedy of the Palestinian people, and the greatest catastrophe was when the state of the Zionist entity was established, after only 19 years of its establishment, in an aggressive war It occupied the rest of Palestine - the West Bank and the Gaza Strip - which were in the custody of Jordan and Egypt, in addition to other Arab lands, until the October 1973 war. Between Egypt and Israel and Egypt's exit from the conflict equation with Israel in return for its restoration of Sinai.

We conclude from all that happened that the claims of some non-Palestinian rebels that the Palestinians sold their land and that the Arabs fought several wars and thousands fell for them in defense of Palestine and the Palestinians, is not true. The truth is that the intervention of the Arab regimes was a disaster for the Palestinian people. The setback second, then normalization finally, and all the Palestinian people until now would have been fighting the Zionists on the land of Palestine, and there would have been no immigration and diaspora.

In the bud, since more than a century has passed since the Balfour Declaration, 75 years since the Nakba, and 56 years after the setback, the Palestinian people, led by the refugees whom the enemy believed had vanished and forgotten their national cause, continues its struggle alone with its capabilities and no longer bets on an Arab military intervention or Islamic, even if it is still betting on the Arab peoples and world public opinion, which is increasingly convinced of the justice of the Palestinian cause and its right to an independent state.