A friend accused me of being Anti-Semitic for my condemnation of Netanyahu and the rightwing parties in Israel

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39. Here is a better timeline.

The Arabs rejected Resolution 181 and Israel declared itself independent and a state on May 14, 1948. The 1948 Arab-Israeli War started the next day on May 15,1948. The war didn't start because the Arabs rejected Resolution 181, it started because Israel declared itself a state and had already acted before that to secure the area militarily and areas near it. Plan Dalet implemented by the Israelis in early April 1948 violently expelled more than 250,000 Palestinian Arabs. On April 9th part of the Plan Dalet involved the Deir Yassin massacre, killing at least 107 Arab villagers, including women and children. The Arabs by this time also had moved troops into this area and had started some military actions as well. Obviously all of this was one big powder keg and the US withdrew its support for the partition plan. One can argue, and I would agree that the Arabs should have accepted the Partition plan but one can also argue that Israel had decided in advance that they would take that area militarily if they had to regardless of what the UN, the US or anyone else thought. I say all of this because of this "The Arab's rejected it, which led to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and resulted in Israel becoming a Jewish state. " which you stated in your post. The correct timeline would be "The Arab's rejected it, Israel declared itself a state which led to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War."