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Joe Xiang Israel Declared and the War of 1948 (Chapter 4, Vocab 4) How did the smaller number of Jews defeat the Arabs – and what difficulties did Arabs experience? We must first take into account that 600,000 Jews did not fight over 40 million Arabs, In tallying up the army sizes of the Zionists and the Palestinians, it was found that roughly 67,800 (30,000 in the main army, 10,000 for local defense, 25,000 as a home guard, 2,000 Irgun terrorists, and 800 in the Stern Gang) men and women made up the Zionist army compared to the only 40,000 men and women in the Palestinian army. Thus it was not overwhelming odds for the Zionists to fight against, as the Zionist even had more people than the Palestinians had. Furthermore, we need to look more in-depth at Zionist military might: The Zionists, although lacking in heavy weapons, artillery, armored vehicles, and planes, had a better and more properly trained army, and were much more organized than their Palestinian counterparts. They had a unified command structure, and had been able to stockpile weapons from Czechoslovakia because of a previous truce period called by Ralph Bunche. Their terrorism forces, Irgun, Stern Gang, and Haganah, were also much more effective in terrorist acts, and were even able to displace thousands of Arabs by attacking villages. This allowed the Zionists to undermine the morale of Arabs. These factors ultimately led to the defeat of the Arabs. Regarding the difficulties the Arabs experienced: The Palestinians had about 40,000 soldiers but only 10,000 soldiers were properly trained by the British and in the Arab legion. The rest were mostly irregulars. Thus comparatively, the Palestinian army only had 10,000 soldiers fighting against 67,800 well trained Israeli forces. The Palestinians did have armor capability (such as tanks) but this was not effectively used against the Jews. Furthermore, Palestinian command structure was non-existent. There was constant fighting over who would be the commander in chief of the Palestinian army, so much so that the army was split up, and different commanders were in charge of different parts. Different kings of different countries would constantly fight over leadership instead of allowing one person to command all the Arab troops more effectively because of their own personal desires, such as land. Supplies were also another problem, the distance to Baghdad from Haifa is 700 miles, and the Egyptians also had a 250 mile supply line across the desert. Thus it was extremely hard to keep the Palestinian Army proper supplied for battle.