I wasn't aware of this quote.
“If the Zionists dare establish a state, the massacres we would unleash would dwarf anything which Genghis Khan and Hitler perpetrated.”
-Rahman Azzam Pasha, Secretary-General of the Arab League, April 30th 1946
Knew for a while that the 22 countries who collectively make up the Arab League (and suppress the 15-20 million strong Kurdish nation with assistance from Iran and the Turks) had made very clear they intended war in 1947-8, but this is a stronger statement from the secretary or an Arab head of state than I was aware of.
Here's another gem, from 1948, just as seven Arab armies began their assault on nascent Israel:“This will be a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades.”
-Rahman Azzam Pasha
My source is this Izrapundit post, which lionizes one of the Irgun's better moments. It's a terribly interesting read, but keep in mind as Konig speaks in glowing terms of the Irgun fighters that they would later commit the Jewish state's most prominent war crime, massacring nearly an entire Arab village with no tactical or strategic justification (the casualties were over 100), and then claiming to have killed even more than they had in order to terrify local Arabs into further flight (which was already ongoing) or compliance. Just saying. The Arabs may have failed in their attempt to wipe the Jewish state from the face of the earth, but Menachem Begin was as much murderer as hero.
