The condition of the Arab armies during the first Arab-Israeli war:

" the Arab League only decided to commit the regular armies of the Arab states two days before the British withdrawal from Palestine, on May 12, 1948. Had their intervention enjoyed a modicum of coordination and advance planning, a glimmer of trust and common purpose, the Arab

forces might have prevailed. Instead, the Arabs entered Palestine more at war with each other than with the Jewish state.

The Arab states were in complete disarray on the eve of the first Arab-Israeli War. The conflict in Palestine had gone worse than anyone had predicted. For all his bluster, Fawzi al-Qawuqji had proved a disaster on the battlefield, his ill-trained and undisciplined troops forced

to retreat from every action against the Haganah. The Arab Liberation Army (the volunteer army) was by all accounts more of a burden than a relief to the beleaguered Palestinians, and the strategy of relying on Arab volunteers had proven an utter failure."
- The Arabs: A History