Charles Ashkenazi
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@CharlesAsh05
“connecting people 🇦🇪🙏🏼🇮🇱passionated about the Abraham Accords, . my IG: Charles_Ashkenazi
Hi Rabbi, I'm a historian of Palestine. This tweet is a lie. The idea that the "Arabs wanted to push the Jews into the sea" during the 1948 War was a myth invented and spread by Zionist propagandists. The most authoritative source here is Professor Shai Hazkani, who writes: "In 15 years of searching, during which I read hundreds of propaganda documents from 1947 to 1949, I encountered only one case in which an Arab leader mentioned “sea” and “Jews” in the same sentence. That was the Egyptian Hassan al-Banna, founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, in a call to expel the Jews from Egypt. The more familiar quotes (like the one attributed to the Arab League’s secretary general at the time, Azzam Pasha) aren’t backed up by reliable Arabic sources, and it’s not clear whether they were ever actually said. In any event, I found no calls for murdering Jews just because they were Jews in either the propaganda or the educational material aimed at Palestinians and Arab fighters in 1948. Judging by the documents I collected for my latest book, the claims about an Arab plan to “throw the Jews into the sea” are actually rooted in official Zionist propaganda. This propaganda began during the war, perhaps to encourage Jewish fighters to leave as few Palestinians as possible in the areas that would become part of Israel. (Incidentally, a comparison of Arab and Jewish propaganda in 1948 reveals that the propaganda of the Israel Defense Forces and its precursor, the Haganah, was much more violent.)" Source: haaretz.com/opinion/2022-1… If you'd like to learn more about the 1948 Palestine War, I offer courses on the history of the Palestine question and the history of Zionism here: palestinenexus.com/courses
