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	Arab Liberation Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Arab Liberation Army (Jaysh al-Inqadh al-Arabi) was an army of volunteers from Arab countries led by Fawzi al-Qawuqji.
		If the volunteer army were defeated, the loss and embarrassment would be borne by the Arab League in general and the Palestinians in particular, not by Syria alone.
		Hashimi was ultimately appointed Inspector General of the ALA and placed in charge of recruitment and training of the troops at the Qatana headquarters.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arab_Liberation_Army (1647 words)

	Israel and the Arab Coalition in 1948
		Israel is portrayed as the innocent victim of unremitting Arab hostility and Arab aggression.
		Contact with regular armies undoubtedly came as a shock to the Haganah, the paramilitary organization of the Yishuv which was in the process of being transformed into the IDF.
		Arab rulers were as concerned with curbing each other as they were in fighting the common enemy.
	www.fathom.com /course/72810001/session1.html (1709 words)

	Syria and the War in Palestine
		First, the Arab people considered the partition plan to be highway robbery; it gave over 50 percent of Palestine to the Jews, although they constituted but a third of the population and owned a mere seven percent of the land.
		We now know that early military assessments by the Arab League and individual states of their ability to defeat Zionist forces in the impending conflict were unanimous in warning of the superiority of the Zionist military, which outnumbered the Arab forces at every stage of the war.
		Arab historians have argued that Syria pushed so adamantly for war because of its special heritage as the birthplace and heart of Arab nationalism and because Arab nationalist sentiment among the Syria public and legislators could not be stifled.
	faculty-staff.ou.edu /L/Joshua.M.Landis-1/Syria_1948.htm (11172 words)

	The British Record on Partition
		Arab desertions from the police, for the purpose of joining the attackers, accompanied by the stealing of arms, have never been prevented, and Arab violators of the peace go unpunished.
		On January 19, C. Evans, the District Commissioner for the Galilee District, wrote to the Chief Secretary of Palestine, Sir Henry Guerney, that the training of the Arab Liberation army is by European volunteers and that, in fact, one of the incursions was led by a German officer.
		The Arabs, no doubt in order to facilitate action by their troops, withdrew all their own vehicles from the stretch of the road in question and were then secure in the knowledge that any civilian traffic which they cared to attack must be Jewish.
	emperor.vwh.net /history/br.htm (13305 words)

	The Arab Invasion 1948
		The armies of lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq invaded the tiny new country with the declared intent of destroying it.
		A volunteer "Arab Liberation Army" led by the Syrian Fawzi el Kawukji failed in its attack on Mishmar ha-Emek in the Jezreel Valley, while a battalion of volunteers from Jebel Druze was routed when attempting to attack Ramat Yohanan near Haifa.
		The Arab Legion overran the Etzion bloc of settlements south of Jerusalem, two Jewish settlements north of the city, as well as the Sheikh Jarrah district of the city and the Jewish quarter of the Old City; the new city of Jerusalem was now under siege.
	www.eretzyisroel.org /~jkatz/independence.html (908 words)

	The War of Independence (1948)
		By comparison, displaced Arabs were forced into refugee camps by their Arab bretheren and most remained there throughout the 19 years of Arab occupation.
		to the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to preserve peace and participate in the building-up of the state on the basis of full and equal citizenship and representation in all its...
		We told the whole world that we were going to fight." As for the British commander of Jordan's Arab Legion, John Bagot Glubb, he remarked candidly: "Early in January, the first detachments of the Arab Liberation Army began to infiltrate into Palestine from Syria.
	members.tripod.com /arabterrorism/FAQ/war1948.html (1232 words)

	Israel and the Arab Coalition in 1948
		The friendship between the Hashemite ruler and the Zionist movement was cemented by a common enemy in the shape of the grand mufti, Hajj Amin al-Husayni, the leader of the Palestinian national movement.
		Second, his small army, the Arab Legion, was the best trained and most professional of the armies of the Arab states.
		But regarding the Arab part of Palestine, we did think it was serious and that he had every chance of taking it, all the more so since the Arabs of Palestine, with their official leadership, did not want to establish a state at all.
	www.fathom.com /course/72810001/session2.html (1534 words)

	British Record on Partition
		The Arab revolt was openly projected in the fall of 1947 at the very time when the United Nations were meeting in the regular Assembly session and discussing the Palestine issue.
		This meeting was attended not only by the heads of the Arab governments constituting the League, the Mufti and Fawzi Qauqji, later of the Arab liberation army in Palestine, but by Brigadier P. Clayton, the British representative in Egypt, and a number of his associates from Cairo and Jerusalem.
		If the activity of the Arab League, comprising the states of Egypt, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, Yemen and Transjordan, all members of the United Nations except Transjordan, were not sufficient evidence that the Arab states as such are in revolt against the November 29th decision of the General Assembly.
	emperors-clothes.com /docs/br.htm (13303 words)

	Arab Countries Reaction to the State of Israel
		Palestinian Arabs (including veterans of the 1936-9 Arab Revolt, members of Arab youth organizations, and police) quickly initiated hostilities against the Jewish population.
		The early Arab attacks resembled the Arab Revolt of 1936-9, with attacks on villages and terrorism in the cities.
		One result of the Arab attacks on the State of Israel and its Jewish population was the flight of Arabs from thier homes in Israel.
	www.palestinefacts.org /pf_independence_arab_countries.php (652 words)

	Myths & Facts - The War of 1948
		This was prior to the invasion by the regular Arab armies that followed Israel's declaration of independence.
		Powerful Arab interests, both inside and outside Palestine, are defying the resolution of the General Assembly and are engaged in a deliberate effort to alter by force the settlement envisaged therein.
		The Arab League was forced to cancel several boycott meetings called by the Syrian hosts because of opposition from countries like Kuwait, Morocco and Tunisia.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/myths/mf4.html (2292 words)

	The Arab/Muslim Nazi Connection [Free Republic]
		Arab leaders and media outlets have long been addicted to comparing Israel to the Nazi regime, while at the same time demeaning the extent of the Holocaust.
		News of the Nazi takeover was welcomed by the Arab masses with great enthusiasm, as the first congratulatory telegrams Hitler received upon being appointed Chancellor came from the German Consul in Jerusalem, followed by those from several Arab capitals.
		The Arabs can conveniently ignore the racial lines of Nazism and by doing so they would eventually be shooting themselves in their own feet.
	www.freerepublic.com /forum/a3a8ff1c12efe.htm (1860 words)

	I Saw Ramallah \| Barghouti, Mourid
		For Najib, a local fisherman who is finally allowed to join the ALA, the vest holds the promise of valor on the battlefield and fame off of it; for Ahmad Bey, it is a sign of his importance.
		In the ALA’s battle with the Jews at Zeraa, they are defeated, hampered by mud, lack of ammunition and poor training.
		Disasters came on the heels of disasters, calamities rained down from on high or sprang up from the depths of the earth.” With the arrival of the Arab expeditionary forces, the Liberation Army is disbanded, its men dismissed, dispersing invisibly, unsung and dejected, wherever they may.
	www.middleeastbooks.com /html/books/barghouti.html (1957 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Operation Chametz (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		It was no coincidence, therefore, that the Haganah dubbed its drive to expel the Arab inhabitants of Jaffa "Operation Chametz".
		The Arab fighters trying to hold back the Jewish attack were 450 of the city's inhabitants, beside another 300 fighters from the Arab Liberation Army formed by the Arab League.
		The Arabs fought desperately for 10 days, but on 3 May, the Arab commander in charge of the defence of the city, Michel Al-Issa, cabled to the Arab League Military Committee in Damascus: "There are no forces left to defend the city.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /1998/1948/375_cmtz.htm (393 words)

	A short look at the current state of the PLO
		On many occasions, Arafat claimed to have fought with Al-Husseini's forces around Jerusalem in 1947-48, but neither he, nor anyone else was able to confirm it.
		It had an army, called Force 17, a highly developed intellegence service and a 10 billion dollar budget, including $2 billion in the Chairman's Secret Fund, money that Arafat could spent any way he wanted without being questioned.
		He controls Fatah more than other parts of the Palestine Liberation Organization, but to call the rest of the PLO independent of Yasser Arafat would be laughable.
	www.angelfire.com /biz/Israelwire/PLO.html (820 words)

	Iraq stepping up support of Palestinian uprising - smh.com.au
		Iraq has increased its payments to Palestinians and is supporting their uprising against Israeli occupation in other ways, a Palestinian activist said yesterday, hinting that Iraq is supplying arms.
		Iraq has been giving money to the relatives of Palestinian suicide bombers and others killed in the two-year conflict with Israel, but now it is increasing the payments, said Ibrahim Zannen, a spokesman for the pro-Iraq Arab Liberation Army in Gaza.
		On Tuesday, about 2,000 Palestinians marched in Gaza in support of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, and Arab Liberation Army officials passed out cheques for $US10,000 ($A18,000) to families of Palestinians killed in the conflict.
	www.smh.com.au /articles/2002/09/13/1031608326481.html (533 words)

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