From: efbregg73@gmx-xx.comm   
      
   What started it all? Well, that's a no-brainer: the Arab reaction   
   to the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine, which passed   
   by a large majority:   
      
      
      
   One day after the State of Israel declared itself as an independent nation   
   (May 14, 1948), Lebanese, Syrian, Iraqi, Egyptian, and Transjordanian troops,   
   supported by Saudi and Yemenite troops, attacked the nascent Jewish state,   
   triggering the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. On that day, Azzam Pasha [secretary-   
   general of the Arab League between 1945 and 1952] announced:   
      
   "This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be   
   spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades".   
      
      
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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