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the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling for Palestine to be partitioned between Arabs and Jews
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Israel declared independence
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Five Arab nations invaded territory in the former Palestinian mandate immediately following the announcement of the independence of the state of Israel on May 14, 1948 causing Israel to go to war with the Palestinians again.
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A war over the closing of the Suez canal by Egypt which was ended by the USSR and the US
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The Palestine Liberation Organization was built to take back the land the Jewish took from them
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Egypt blocked Israeli trading vessels from the straits causing Israel to attack them
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The war began when the Arab coalition launched a joint surprise attack on Israeli positions in the Israeli-occupied territories on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism, which also occurred that year during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
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Jerusalem invaded Lebanon because of frequent assassination attempts
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Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Negotiator Mahmoud Abbas signed a Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements
