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Arab League and the Arab–Israeli conflict: what Wikipedia removed

This article covers the Arab League’s role in the Arab-Israeli conflict, including its coordinated 1948 invasion after the British Mandate ended. In 2005 the opening quoted Arab League Secretary General Abdul Razek Azzam Pasha announcing, on the eve of the 1948 war, the intention to wage ‘a war of extermination and a momentous massacre which will be spoken of like the Mongolian massacres and the Crusades.’ Today the opening traces the League’s formation, its Palestine boycott, its 1964 creation of the PLO, and the Six-Day War oil embargo, with the Azzam Pasha extermination and massacre quote gone, though massacre survives 3 times elsewhere in the article. A reader today learns the League imposed a boycott and created the PLO, not that its own Secretary General publicly announced an intention to wage a war of extermination and momentous massacre before the 1948 war began.

The word “occupation” appeared 3 times in this article’s opening at its peak, in 2005. Today the opening carries none; the body carries 6. Checked against the full current article on 2026-08-01.

The tracked words, snapshot by snapshot

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massacre200000

Counts are of the opening paragraph only, the part most readers, search engines and AI training sets ever quote.

What was taken out

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  • The article’s earlier working title phrase, Arab League in the Arab-Israeli conflict, is gone, replaced with the current title.
  • This passage on Israel and the Arab League states and the League’s founding date is gone from the opening in this form, reworded into the current founding sentence.
  • The sentence on the Mufti of Jerusalem’s exile is gone from the opening.
  • The sentence on the Arab League’s 1945 reestablishment of the Arab Higher Committee is gone from the opening.
  • The Azzam Pasha quote announcing an intended war of extermination and momentous massacre before the 1948 war is gone from the opening.

How it opened then, and now

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2005 (revision 17087297):

This article discusses the role of the Arab League in the Arab-Israeli conflict . Israel and the Arab League states The League was established on March 22 , 1945 . When the League founding pact was signed in Cairo , Egypt , “[t]he Arab League states collectively put their weight behind the basic demands of Palestine’s Arabs but arrogated to themselves the right to select who would represent the Palestinians in their councils, so long as their country was not independent.” Template:Fn By the end of World War II , the Palestinian Arabs were left leaderless. The mufti of Jerusalem Hajj Amin al-Husayni had been in exile since 1937 and spent the war years in Nazi -occupied Europe , actively colla…

2025 (revision 1291747181):

Overview of the Arab League’s role in the Arab–Israeli conflict The Arab League was formed in Cairo on 22 March 1945 with six members: Egypt , Iraq , Transjordan (renamed Jordan after independence in 1946), Lebanon , Saudi Arabia , and Syria . Yemen joined on 5 May 1945. Since its formation the Arab League has promoted the Palestinian Arab cause in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict , including by imposing the Arab League boycott of Israel . The Arab League opposed the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine in 1947. On 15 May 1948, the then seven Arab League members coordinated an invasion of what was by then the former British Mandate, marking the start of the 1948 Arab–Israeli War . In …

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