It is proper to move the discussion to here since the whole is diverging.
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First, leave my morals be. Listening lecture on morals coming from Arab and especially from Muslim is a joke. Second, you started the war against Jews in 1948 and this fact alone excommunicates anything and everything you are getting or will ever get in response. Either continue ripping what you have sewn or ask for peace and pray your offer will be accepted.
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Very simple answer. I am not an Arab.
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Okay, it seems that you want to veer clear from knowing the reasons for the 1948 war, because you fear that if you know the details; your whole perception on the matter will change. I will try, gladly to provide the information and explanations for the war, as dogmatic as you sound, i will try. Sorry for the bad English in some parts, i had to translate some of the passages from French.
"The Professor Judas Magnes, President of the Hebraic University since 1926, considered the "Biltmore Program" of 1942, which dictated the creation of a Jewish State in Palestine, that it
Will lead to war against the Arabs
Source: Norman Bentwich. For Sion sake. Biographie of Judas Magnes. Jewish Publication society of America. 1954. p. 352.
Theodore Herzl writes Cecil Rhodes, 11 January 1902:
“I besiege you, send me a text detailing that you have examined my program and that you approve of it. You will be asking yourself why I am addressing myself to you, Sir Rhodes. Its because my program is a colonial program.”
Source: Herzl, Tagebuch. Vol. III, p. 105.
In 1938, Albert Enstein condemned the Jewish orientation of founding a Jewish national home on the premise:
“I would be, in my opinion, more reasonable to come into accord with the Arabs on the bases of a communal peaceful life instead of creating a Jewish State…The conscience that I have regarding the nature of Judaism conflicts with the idea of a Jewish State doted with frontiers, an army. I fear of internal damage Judaism will suffer because of the development of our ranks, of narrow nationalism…We are no longer Jews from the period of Macchabes. Re-becoming a nation, in the political sense of the word, will mean that we will have to deflect from the spirituality of our community which we owe to the genius of our prophets.”
Source: Rabbin Moshe Menuhin: The Decadence of Judaism in our time. 1969, p. 324.
“Across the mainstream Zionist spectrum, it was understood from the outset that Palestine’s indigenous Arab population would acquiesce in its dispossession. Contrary to the claim that is often made, Zionism was not blind to the presence of Arabs in Palestine, Zeev Sternhell observes. If Zionist intellectuals and leaders ignored the Arab dilemma, it was chiefly because they knew that this problem had no solution within the Zionist way of thinking…In general both sides understood each other well and knew that the implementation of Zionism could be only at the expense of the Palestinian Arabs. Moshe Shertko (later Sharett) contemptuously dismissed the “illusive hopes” of those who spoke about a “mutul misunderstanding” between us and the Arabs, about “common interests” and about the “the possibility of unity and peace between the two fraternal peoples”. “There is no example in history,” David Ben-Gurion declared, succinctly framing the core problem, “that a nation opens the gates of its country, not because of necessity….but because the nation which wants to come in has explained its desire to do it.”
The Zionists from early on were in fact bent on expelling the Palestinians. “The idea of transfer had accompanied the Zionist movement from its very beginnings,” Tom Segev reports. “”Disappearing” the Arabs lay at the heart of the Zionist dream, and was also a necessary condition to its existence. ...With a few exceptions, none of the Zionists disputed the desirability of forced transfer – or its morality.” They key was to get the timing right. Ben-Gurion, reflecting on the expulsion option in the late 1930s, wrote: “What is inconceivable in normal times is possible in revolutionary times; and if at this time the opportunity is missed and what is possible in such great hours is not carried out – a whole world is lost.”
The goal of “disappearing” the indigenous Arab population points to a virtual truism buried beneath a mountain of apologetic Zionist literature: what spurred Palestinians’ opposition to Zionism was not anti-Semitism, in the sense of an irrational or abstract hatred for Jews, but rather the prospect – very real – of their own expulsion. “The fear of territorial displacement and dispossession”, Morris reasonably concludes, “was to be the chief motor of Arab antagonism to Zionism.” Likewise, in his magisterial study of Palestinian nationalism, Yehoshua Porath suggests that the “major factor nourishing” Arab anti-Semitism “was not hatred for Jews as such but opposition to Jewish settlement in Palestine.” “
Source: Norman G. FINKELSTEIN: Image and Reality of The Israel-Palestine Conflict. 1995, p. xii.
So the reason why Arabs got into war with the prospective Jewish is nation is because they rightly feared their own demise which the Zionist were planning for. They were combating colonial enterprise which thought to castrate their will and power. Even prominent Jews, not within the Zionist ring of power, knew that the creation of Israel was going to lead to war, but what they didnt know was that Zionist plans dictated the removal of the Palestinians in order to ensure the survivability of the newly founded mercenary nation. If you want the mindset the Zionist had behind their forced relocation plans and which arguments they used to justify what they did, i can surely oblige.
Will reply to the rest of your response in sequence as it takes time to dig up and write this information. But you can in the mean answer the above.
2nd March 2009
