2 Jamal Husseini, the Arab Higher Committee's spokesman, had told the UN prior to the partition vote the Arabs would drench 'the soil of our beloved country with the last drop of our blood. The chairman of the Arab Higher Committee said the Arabs would 'fight for every inch of their country.' 1 Two days later, the holy men of Al-Azhar University in Cairo called on the Muslim world to proclaim a jihad (holy war) against the Jews. �The Arab economic boycott of Israel was imposed after the 1948 war.� �The West's support of Israel allowed the Jews to conquer Palestine.� �The United States was the only nation that criticized the Arab attack on Israel.�
�The Bernadotte Plan was a viable alternative to partition.� �The Jews started the first war with the Arabs.�
