Military+operations


 * MILITARY OPERATIONS:**

· November 1947 o Abdullah meets with members of the Jewish Agency and an “understanding” was reached à Jewish Agency agreed to Abdullah’s annexation of Palestine, and Abdullah agreed //not to attack// Jews or stop a Jewish state

· December 1947 o Volunteer army, Arab Liberation Army (ALA) forms § Organized, armed, and trained by Syria for the Arab League states -- See “ALA” for more

· January 1948 o ALA begins entering Palestine § Yishuv is demoralized by Arab forces

· March (end of) 1948 o 5,000 men (Arab irregulars from Iraq, Syria, and Lebanon) had infiltrated Palestine o Arabs take control of Jerusalem o President Truman says he will send troops to Palestine

· April 1948 o Haganah takes control of conflict § Arms sent to them by Communist-controlled Czechoslovakia o Haganah takes control of Jaffa and eastern Galilee o Eastern Jerusalem remains Arab controlled

· ALA o Very few Palestinians joined the ALA because of Palestinian suspicion towards other Arab states o ALA was often billeted in Arab towns and villages because locals resented the group o Strategy à dominate the roads to control the lines of communication § Isolate outside villages from Jews in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa o Successful in the beginning by forcing Haganah on the defensive

· Terrorism by both sides o In major cities, with little regard for women/children o Igrun à threw bombs at a group of Arab oil refinery workers in Haifa, killing 6, wounding 42 § Arabs then rioted and killed 41 Jews and wounded 48 o Haganah members, disguised as Arabs, killed 60 people in a village near Haifa, (to avenge Jewish deaths in Haifa)