@MargieInTelAviv @threadreaderapp It went beyond that. As the "late Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, Palestinian academic and native of Jaffa who fled his native Jaffa in 1948, and left an important account of the mood among the city’s Arab inhabitants on the eve of the war: /1
@MargieInTelAviv @threadreaderapp ... the inhabitants of Jaffa in general believed—like most of their fellow Palestinians throughout the land—that the Palestinian was braver than the Jew and more capable of standing hardship. They thought.. they were the ones who would defend their homeland /2
@MargieInTelAviv @threadreaderapp with zeal and patriotism, which the Jews—being of many scattered countries and tongues, and moreover being divided into Ashkenazi and Sephardic—would inevitably lack.
In short, there was a belief that the Jews were generally cowards. " /3
In short, there was a belief that the Jews were generally cowards. " /3
@MargieInTelAviv @threadreaderapp "This set of familiar prejudices, when directed against Jews, is generally known as anti-Semitism. It is why the Palestinians failed to assess the real strength of their Jewish adversaries in 1948. It also explains why they refused to accept the partition plan .. /4
@MargieInTelAviv @threadreaderapp —the internationally sanctioned solution for Palestine adopted by the United Nations in 1947. Why concede any of the country to a motley mob of cowardly Jews? And so the Palestinians did become victims—of their own anti-Semitism, which imbued them with a baseless conceit. " /5
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