Talk:Palestinian Fedayeen insurgency

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Infiltrators[edit]

A recent edit [1] has suggested that this topic is separate from the Palestinian return to Israel (infiltration) going on at the same time. This doesn't make sense to me - they were intimately related. Can anyone explain? Onceinawhile (talk) 22:49, 7 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]

Sure. This article is about Fedayeen insurgency, not civilian infiltrations. There's a separate article for those unarmed and intending to return for economic or social reasons, namely Palestinian return to Israel.--יניב הורון (Yaniv) (talk) 00:49, 8 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Can you find me a single source which deals with one of these topics without the other? Every single source I have seen, on both sides of the spectrum, deals with them as a combined topic. See for example:
  • Avi Kober (11 September 2009). Israel's Wars of Attrition: Attrition Challenges to Democratic States. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-25552-7.
  • Brian Baughan (21 October 2014). Arab-Israeli Relations, 1950-1979. Mason Crest. ISBN 978-1-63355-971-4.
  • Eliezer Ben Rafael (January 1987). Israel-Palestine: A Guerrilla Conflict in International Politics. Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-0-313-25553-3.
  • Benny Morris (1997). Israel's Border Wars, 1949-1956: Arab Infiltration, Israeli Retaliation, and the Countdown to the Suez War. Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-829262-3.
  • Shaul Bartal (September 2011). The Fedayeen Emerge: The Palestine-Israel Conflict, 1949-1956. AuthorHouse. ISBN 978-1-4567-8679-3.
  • Avi Shlaim's review of Benny Morris
  • Chapter 5 of Leslie Stein
We have three separate articles essentially dealing with the same topic (Palestinian Fedayeen insurgency, Reprisal operations and Palestinian return to Israel) - if they are not to be combined, we should at least ensure the links are crystal clear in the leads. Onceinawhile (talk) 09:49, 8 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Don't worry. We have both links in Background and Retribution operations.--יניב הורון (Yaniv) (talk) 13:10, 8 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Good point. So they should also be covered in the lead as well per WP:LEAD. I see Reprisal operations is already linked in the lead, so all that is needed is to add back the link to Palestinian return to Israel that you removed. Onceinawhile (talk) 14:17, 8 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]
Done. Have a good day.--יניב הורון (Yaniv) (talk) 15:08, 8 July 2018 (UTC)[reply]