HISTORY
HISTORY OF THE MIDDLE EAST
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Question
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The United Nations decided to withdraw the proposal to create a State of Israel becuase of all the problems it caused in the area.
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Almost no Jewish people were willing to go to Israel because of the country’s Arab neighbors.
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Israel won the war and the new State of Israel was even larger than originally planned.
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The conflict ended and all Palestinian Arabs became citizens in the new State of Israel.
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Detailed explanation-1: -On May 14, 1948, the State of Israel was created, sparking the first Arab-Israeli War. The war ended in 1949 with Israel’s victory, but 750, 000 Palestinians were displaced and the territory was divided into 3 parts: the State of Israel, the West Bank (of the Jordan River), and the Gaza Strip.
Detailed explanation-2: -Six memorable days, known to Israelis as the Six-Day War and to Arabs and others as the 1967 War, redrew the region’s landscape in fundamental ways. In those six days, Israel defeated three Arab armies, gained territory four times its original size, and became the preeminent military power in the region.
Detailed explanation-3: -By the end of March 1948 thirty villages were depopulated of their Palestinian Arab population. Approximately 100, 000 Palestinian Arabs had fled to Arab parts of Palestine, such as Gaza, Beersheba, Haifa, Nazareth, Nablus, Jaffa and Bethlehem. Some had left the country altogether, to Jordan, Lebanon and Egypt.
Detailed explanation-4: -What was the direct outcome of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War? Israel gained additional territory.
Detailed explanation-5: -At midnight on May 14, 1948, the Provisional Government of Israel proclaimed a new State of Israel. On that same date, the United States, in the person of President Truman, recognized the provisional Jewish government as the de facto authority of the Jewish state (de jure recognition was extended on January 31, 1949).