It’s the humiliation of the loss. The Haganah was barely an army. They had two airplanes they got from Czechoslovakia and had to smuggle in weapons. The Brit’s (yes the colonizers) were more sympathetic to the Arabs and many fought alongside the Arabs during the war. The regular armies of several Arab states all fought against Israel In the minds of the Palestinians how could they lose?
The maintenance of resentment and grievance so aided by western so called progressives is the major obstacle to peace. No other group has been propped up organizationally (UNWRA) to maintain a conflict this long.
It’s the humiliation of the loss. The Haganah was barely an army. They had two airplanes they got from Czechoslovakia and had to smuggle in weapons. The Brit’s (yes the colonizers) were more sympathetic to the Arabs and many fought alongside the Arabs during the war. The regular armies of several Arab states all fought against Israel In the minds of the Palestinians how could they lose?
The maintenance of resentment and grievance so aided by western so called progressives is the major obstacle to peace. No other group has been propped up organizationally (UNWRA) to maintain a conflict this long.