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1948 War

The 1948 war between Israel and Palestine, including the UN partition plan and the declaration of Israel's independence.

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After the ottoman empire lost the war in palestine, U.N. divided palestine in 2 states, is it true that palestine began to attack Israel first?

The question misunderstands a complex, multi-stage conflict: violence in Palestine did not begin only after the United Nations partition plan or only after the declaration of Israel; a civil war betwe...

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Is it true that in 1947 after the U.N. divided arab and jewish in 2 states, the first attack was from the arabs?

The immediate aftermath of the UN General Assembly’s adoption of Resolution 181 (the Partition Plan) on 29 November 1947 saw a rapid descent into communal violence in Mandatory Palestine—violence that...