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Renowned author, I. F. Stone, at the time:<ref>Stone, Isidor Feinstein., Cooke, Jerry., Capa, Robert., Gidal, Tim. This is Israel. United States: Boni and Gaer, 1948. [https://books.google.com/books?&id=sSi7AAAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Azzam p. 21].</ref><blockquote>
Renowned author, I. F. Stone, at the time:<ref>Stone, Isidor Feinstein., Cooke, Jerry., Capa, Robert., Gidal, Tim. This is Israel. United States: Boni and Gaer, 1948. [https://books.google.com/books?&id=sSi7AAAAIAAJ&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=Azzam p. 21].</ref><blockquote>
"The partition line proposed," Jamal Husseini of the Palestine Arab Higher Committee boldly warned the UN, "shall be nothing but a line of blood and fire." Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League, dropped the mask of moderation and told the Egyptian press, "This war will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades."</blockquote>
"The partition line proposed," Jamal Husseini of the Palestine Arab Higher Committee boldly warned the UN, "shall be nothing but a line of blood and fire." Abdul Rahman Azzam Pasha, Secretary General of the Arab League, dropped the mask of moderation and told the Egyptian press, "This war will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades."</blockquote>
==Cowardice==
Eyewitness:<ref>Reisfeld, Alfred. To Run for Life from Swastika and Red Star. United States: Xlibris, 2002. [https://books.google.com/books?id=WpMjjwyKVsQC&pg=PA456 456]</ref>
...for those who run from the battlefield when the fate of their fatherland is at stake. It expects them to stand their ground, fight, bleed, die and not to yield, no matter how powerful the enemy or hopeless the odds. It is no disgrace to lose a battle to a superior foe after exhausting all one's strength in combat. But, the headlong flight from J affa and other Arab towns, without any attempt to make a stand, would condemn the Arabs to the miseries of their diaspora in dusty refugee camps. I know where of I speak.
I was there and saw it all as a member of the inchoate Israeli Army. I could not understand why the Palestinians, with all the advantage of superior arms and the support of five Arab states, made only a feeble attempt at combat.
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==Ethnic cleansing - Jerusalem==
==Ethnic cleansing - Jerusalem==