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Israeli Causes
1.) The British found themselves with less desire to have ties in the Middle East due to several factors including: increasing pressure from the US as well as increasing resistance in the territory from both the Arabs and the Palestinians
2.) Arabs and Israelis believed that they could impose a settlement on their own terms.
3.) Also would not accept any compromise that didn’t legitimise the status quo created by the war. -
Israeli Causes (Cont.)
4.) UN resolution 181 ends the British Mandate and provided a “non-binding recommendation to partition palestine”
5.) After WWII there was need for immediate jewish statehood due an Israeli Refugee Problem
6.) Growing conflict between the Arabs and Zionists prior to the declaration of the state -
Arab Causes
1.) The Arabs rejected any offered compromise for a Jewish states in the region
2.) The Arab revolt left the Arabs weak militarily, politically destraught, and unable to defend themselves
3.) The Arabs did not prepare for war as thoroughly as the zionists
4.) The surrounding Arab countries pledged to go to war in order to prevent a Jewish State in the region -
Un resolution 181
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The first wave of Arab exodus began
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Israel declared its Independence
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The last British soldiers leave Israel
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The Israeli Defense Force was formed
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First UN Truce
Intended to end the conflict for a period of 28, but neither side honored the plan and used it to improve their positions -
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First UN Truce In Effect
Intended to end the conflict for a period of 28, but neither side honored the plan and used it to improve their positions -
The UN offered a new partition plan, which was rejected by both sides
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The Knesset passes legislation stating that all military gains become part of the territory of Israel surrounding countries
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Operations Yoav and Hiraw were conducted under the idea of Plan D
Plan D: An Israeli tactic emphasizing the need to acquire land from the Arabs by any means necessary (Conquest) -
Armistice Between Israel and Egypt
This armistice intended to stop the fighting between the Israelis while peace talks occured -
Armistice between Israel and Lebanon
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Armistice with Israel and Jordan
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Armistice Between Israel and Syria
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UN resolution 194 attempts to broker peace between the Arabs and the Israelis
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Israeli Effects
New Territorial Gains:
Israel gained control of more land than was partitioned by UN resolution 181
Jordan took over Jerusalem and the West Bank
Egypt took over Gaza Strip
Syria gained the strategic land of the Golan Heights -
Arab Effects (Cont.)
Any Arab’s left in the country acquired refugee status and were denied citizenship in the surrounding Arab countries -
Arab Effects
Naqbah- the disaster of which the dismemberment of the palestinian community and the mass exodus of its members- around 700,000 of them- was the major tragedy
Many Palestinians were driven out
Conditions in the Arab world after 1948
A chaotic inter-Arab system struck by conflicting interests.
Rivalries and Jealousies
Governmental regimes whose legitimacy was being questioned by the emergence of new social and political classes bent on reforming a decrepit, corrupt and failing order. -
Israeli Effects (Cont.)
One effect can be described with the quote, “it took thirty years of conflict, wars, destruction and desolation, but especially the conquest by Israel of additional territories in the 1967 war, for the first arab leader to come forward with an unequivocal offer of peace based on the border decided by the 1948 war and, no less important, this time Israel responded.” This demonstrates the post-war Israeli mindset in which they believed all land gained militarily was not negotiable.