The Arab world’s hostility to the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine exacerbated the existential fears of many Israelis, developed over centuries of discrimination and persecution in Europe. Arab governments and media repeatedly promoted a campaign of anti-Israeli rhetoric beginning in the late 1940s and peaking during the 1967 Six-Day War. The consequences of […]
How Arabs Aggravated Israeli Existential Fears
The Arabs knew they would be outmatched in a war against the Israelis.
