"Courage is a special kind of knowledge: the knowledge of how to fear what ought to be feared and how not to fear what ought not to be feared."
- David Ben-Gurion
- David Ben-Gurion
The Israeli war of INDEPENDENCE, 1948
- Background to the war:
- Holocaust and persecution of Jews in Europe leads to many of them leaving to Israel
- Arab League is formed in 1945 to protest the Balfour Declaration
- France gives Syria and Lebanon independence in 1946
- British fall out of favour with the Jews under the guidance of the Zionist movement (A homeland had not been created yet)
- The Brits hand the problem over to the UN in 1947
- 1947 the UN suggests a partition.
- Jews are happy with this the Arabs are angry
- Arab radicals had attacked Jews throughout 1947
- The Arab League had rumours of attacking the Jews once the Brits left.
- The day the mandate ends the Jews under David Ben-Gurion attack the Arab League countries
- The Jews win and increase their territory from the parition including the Negev
Desert
- Many Palestinians became refugees
- Palestinians begin terrorist attacks within Israel
- Holocaust and persecution of Jews in Europe leads to many of them leaving to Israel
- Arab League is formed in 1945 to protest the Balfour Declaration
- France gives Syria and Lebanon independence in 1946
- British fall out of favour with the Jews under the guidance of the Zionist movement (A homeland had not been created yet)
- The Brits hand the problem over to the UN in 1947
- 1947 the UN suggests a partition.
- Jews are happy with this the Arabs are angry
- Arab radicals had attacked Jews throughout 1947
- The Arab League had rumours of attacking the Jews once the Brits left.
- The day the mandate ends the Jews under David Ben-Gurion attack the Arab League countries
- The Jews win and increase their territory from the parition including the Negev
Desert
- Many Palestinians became refugees
- Palestinians begin terrorist attacks within Israel
Question: What if the Holocaust never happened, and the Jews never fled to Israel?
Summary
The 1948 Arab–Israeli War or the First Arab–Israeli War was fought between the State of Israel and a military coalition of Arab states and Palestinian Arab forces. This war was the second stage of the 1948 Palestine war.