This programme is about how the Muslims, remarkably, and unwittingly, created the Israeli Defence Forces that would, at least so far, allow Israel to survive the fury of its overwhelming numerous and powerful enemies attempts to crush it. Of course Israel has to win every war. If it loses one it will all be over for it, in a massive blood bath.

Maybe this programme could be called how the Muslims shot themselves in both feet.

Tag words: Muslims; Israeli Defence Force; Arab Higher Committee; Rebel fighters; mujahid; Michael Hughes; Britain’s Pacification of Palestine; Wing Commander Ritchie; Palestine; havlagah; Jews; British Mandate; Yishuv; General Officer Commanding, Archibald Wavell; Special Night Squads; SNS; Sir Harold MacMichael; High Commissioner of Palestine; Colonial Office; Arab Revolt; Grand Mufti; Haj Amin Al-Husseini; Chief of the Imperial General Staff, Field Marshall Sir Cyril John Deverell; Moshe Shertok; Ben Zvi; Haganah; Palmach; Frank Kitson; Captain Ord Wingate; Laurence of Judea; Iraq Petroleum Company; IPC; Palestine Electricity Corporation; police; supernumeraries; ghaffirs; notrim; temporary additional constables; special constables; private police officers; auxiliary port police force; temporary additional police; a special frontier protection unit; Jewish settlement police; Jewish supernumerary police; special auxiliary police; railway protection police; night watchmen; special policemen; Iraq Petroleum Company TAPline protection force; Army special night and Q units; T E. Lawrence; Lawrence of Arabia; Plymouth Brethren; Charterhouse school; General Reginald Wingate; Hejaz; London's School of Oriental Studies; John Bunyan; He Who Would Valiant Be; To be a Pilgrim; Jerusalem; Trevor-Royle;