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Syria is under control by Vichy France
Syria is controlled by France at this point in WWII. Once the French Mandate was lifted, Syria became an independent country -
Israel is declared a state
Formally the Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel, it declared the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel, which would come into effect on termination of the British Mandate at midnight that day -
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Arab–Israeli War
There had been tension and conflict between the Arabs and the Jews, and the British forces as well. In 1947 these ongoing tensions erupted into civil war,On 15 May 1948 the ongoing civil war transformed into an inter-state conflict between Israel and the Arab -
Gamal Abdel Nasser
2nd President of Egypt, he nationalized the Suez Canal and planned the 1952 overthrow of the monarchy of King Farouk. He merged Egypt with Syria and formed the United Arab Republic -
Golda Meir
Prime Minister of Israel on March 17, 1969. Israel's first woman and the world's fourth woman to hold such an office, she was described as the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics years before the epithet became associated with British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher
