TALKING POINTS

TALK: "Jews started the first war with Arabs."

POINT: Already in 1947, the chairman of the Arab Higher Committee said the Arabs would "fight for every inch of their country" (The New York Times, Dec. 1, 1947).

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 (Facts on File Yearbook 1948, p. 48).

Jamal Husseini, the Arab Higher Committee's spokesman, had told the UN prior to the vote on partitioning Palestine, that the Arabs would drench "the soil of our beloved country with the last drop of our blood ___ " (J.C. Hurewitz, The Struggle For Palestine, 1976, p. 308).

Husseini's …