Except it isn’t. Extermination, theft and ethnic cleansing was the Arab plan, exactly what was articulated by Arab leaders such as Jamal Husseini, Azzam Pasha, and today by Fatah and Hamas. 2/3rdsof the Jews of Europe were murdered by the Nazis. In your so called “nakba” the actual # of casualties were about 10,000, compared to 6,000 Israelis.
Jamal Husseini, a Jerusalem based “effendi” admitted that the Arabs started the war at the behest of the Arab Higher Committee, which he headed, and did so in front of UN Security Council on April 26, 1948.
“The representative of the Jewish Agency told us yesterday that they were not the attackers, that the Arabs had begun the fighting. We do not deny this.