The Arab League on the eve of Israel's independence: declaring war and looking forward to it

US newspapers published in the morning of May 14, 1948 said that the Arab League had declared war on "Palestine Jewry" the evening before Israel declared independence at 4:00 PM:

In a separate announcement from London, the Arab League expressed how they were looking forward to invading and defeating the Jews who would obviously lose when they don't have Britain protecting them (AP via the Baltimore Evening Sun, front page)

This is the reason why Arab consider 1948 to be a "nakba." Not because the Palestinian Arabs were displaced, but because they were 100% convinced that the Jews cannot possibly win, and they were proven decisively wrong. 

It was a catastrophe for their pride more than anything else. 

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