 The Palestinian account of the battle is much the same as the Israeli one . It is , after , all , based on the Israeli one but gives no weight or symbolic character to it . In his work " All That Remains : The Palestinian Villages Occupied and Depopulated by Israel in 1948 " Walid Khalidi refers to Operation Maccabi as the first assault . He reports that the resistance offered by the Arab Legion and the volunteer army were " inspired by Abd al @-@ Qadir al @-@ Husayni " ( who had been killed a month before ) . 
