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Creation of isreal
In 1947 Britain announced that it was giving up control of the british mandate and turning the matter over to the United Nation. The UN proposed to partition, or divide, palestine into jewish state with jerusalem under international control. jewish leaders accepted the proposal, but the arab leaders rejected it. despite arab objections, te UN general Assembly passed a resolution supporting the partition as valid. -
Independence and war
As The British left palestine, David Ben-Gurion and the other Jewish Leaders declared the birth of the democratic State of Isrealon may14,1948. Ben-Gurion later became isreal's became isreal's first prime minister.
The day after isreal's declared it's independence, armies from the arab countries of Egypt, Syria, Lebenon, Transjordan, and iraq invaded isreal, launching the first arab-isreali war. the war lasted from may to december 1948. in the end, the arab armies were soundly defeated. -
War in the 1967
in 1967 Egypt demanded that the UN remove it's troops from Gaza and the Sinai, and egypt began to close off the gulf of aqaba, isreal's route to the red sea. Expecting a large-scale arab attack, isreal decided to stike first.
Isreal Aunched air strike against Egypt, syria and jordan, destroying most of their airplanes on the ground. isreali ground troops then moved in and rapidly defeated arab forces. in this war, called the six day war, isreal took control of the Golan Heights, Sinai Peninsula, -
War in 1973
Determined to win their back territory back Egypt and Syria launched the Yom Kippur War, a suprise attack against isreal in 1973. the war takes it's name from the jewish holy day when the attck began at first, arab troops made gains in the war. isreal's goverment, led by Golda Mier, was not fully prepared for the United states. with U.S. support, isreali forces regrouped and pushed back the Egyptioan and syrian armies. after weeks of fighting, slope both sides agreed to a cease-fired -
A Peace Agreement
until the late 1970's no arab nations had recognized isreal's right to exsist. then, in 1977, egyption president anwar sadat made a momentous declaration: Egypt wanted peace with isreal. to help facilitates this historic peace, U.S. president Jimmy carter invited sadat and isreali prime minister Menachem begin to camp david, the the presidential retreat in maryland. there, in 1978, sadat and begin reached an agreement known as the camp david accords. the treaty ended 30 years of hosility in isre
