Rex Kerr
2 min readNov 28, 2023

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I did last time. What is wrong with your reading comprehension?

And I did the time before; even the long Syria thing says, "Syria tasted the first bitter fruits of defeat during its initial thrust into Palestine six days after the beginning of official hostilities on May 15. Its forces were repulsed at the village of Samakh and the kibbutzim Degania A and B at the border region just south of Lake Tiberias." (Emphasis mine.)

Lake Tiberias, also known as the Sea of Galilee, is very clearly inside the Israeli part of the UN partition: https://www.un.org/unispal/document/auto-insert-185393/. This is the official United Nations document that established the partition! Key quote, in section B. THE JEWISH STATE, "The north-eastern sector of the Jewish State (Eastern) Galilee) is bounded on the north and west by the Lebanese frontier and on the east by the frontiers of Syria and Transjordan. It includes the whole of the Hula Basin, Lake Tiberias, the whole of the Beisan sub-district, the boundary line being extended to the crest of the Gilboa mountains and the Wadi Malih." (emphasis mine).

You can't enter "Palestine" by Lake Tiberias and not be inside the Jewish State. Even with the favorable language used in the Syrian history document (again, http://joshualandis.oucreate.com/Syria_1948.htm), it clearly refutes your point: yes, Arab troops entered land intended for Israel.

Look at the map: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bd/UN_Palestine_Partition_Versions_1947.jpg

If we can't get even one fact straight, there's really no point talking.

Otherwise, if you're motivated to respond at all, you can go on failing to notice when I mention facts and quoting selectively, and backtracking without actually admitting you made a mistake, and never actually confronting that the evidence does not support what you said.

There is plenty of room to engage in legitimate criticism of Zionist settlers, military actions by Jews prior to the UN mandate, and so on. If you want to engage in such criticism, feel free.

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Rex Kerr
Rex Kerr

Written by Rex Kerr

One who rejoices when everything is made as simple as possible, but no simpler. Sayer of things that may be wrong, but not so bad that they're not even wrong.

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