They were not poorly armed nor untrained in 1948. They were the embodied regular armies of 6 [count them ~ SIX] hostile Arab states who all simultaneously invaded the newly declared, UN-authorised, sovereign state of Israel from different directions ~ including the British-trained [by Brigadier Glubb "Pasha"] Arab Legion of Transjordan: & got their backsides well & truly kicked right back out again from Dan to Beersheba by what was indeed a not that highly trained or well armed, but dedicated, defending army all the way from Dan to Beersheba. And they and their pathetic antisemitic sympathisers like Carroll, who wished they had succeeded in rendering the area Jüdenrein, have been squealing like stuck pigs ever since.

~M~