1948 Arab-Israeli War

1948 Arab-Israeli War: Encyclopedia - 1948 Arab-Israeli War

The 1948 Arab-Israeli War is referred to as the "War of Independence" (Hebrew: מלחמת העצמאות) or as the "War of Liberation" (Hebrew: מלחמת השחרור) by Israelis. For Palestinians, the war marked the beginning of the events referred to as "The Catastrophe" ("al Nakba," Arabic: النكبة ). It was the first in a series of wars in the Arab-Israeli conflict. It established the state of Israel as an independent state, dividing the remaining areas of the British Mandate of Palestine into areas co ...

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1948 Arab-Israeli War - Background

1948 Arab-Israeli War - Phases of the War

1948 Arab-Israeli War - Aftermath

1948 Arab-Israeli War - Footnotes

1948 Arab-Israeli War: Encyclopedia II - 1948 Arab-Israeli War - Phases of the War 1948 Arab-Israeli War - First phase: November 29 1947 - April 1 1948. In the twelve days following the UN decision 79 jews were killed by Palestinians, on Nov 30 seven were killed in an attack on a Jerusalem bound bus, and on Dec 2, a mob of Palestinians looted jewish-owned shops in Jerusalem and killed two. The British, who were responible for law and order did not always enforce it, sometimes they would disarm Jewish defense brigades who would then be attacked by Palestinians. The Jews defended themselves and s ...

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United Nations Conciliation Commission - Conciliation Comission

1948 Arab-Israeli War: Encyclopedia - 1949 Armistice Agreements

The 1949 Armistice Agreements are a set of agreements signed during 1949 between Israel and its neighbors Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. The agreements ended the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and established the armistice lines between Israel and the West Bank, also known as the Green Line, until the 1967 Six-Day War. 1949 Armistice Agreements - Agreements. 1949 Armistice Agreements - With Egypt. The agreement with Egypt was signed on February 24. The main poin ...

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1949 Armistice Agreements - Agreements

1948 Arab-Israeli War: Encyclopedia - 1947 UN Partition Plan

On 29 November 1947 the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine, a plan to resolve the Arab-Jewish conflict in the British Mandate of Palestine, was approved by the United Nations General Assembly, at the UN World Headquarters in New York. The plan partitioned the territory into Jewish and Arab states, with the Greater Jerusalem area (encompassing Bethlehem) coming under international control. The failure of this plan led to the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. 1947 UN Partition Plan - Creation of the plan. The U ...

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1948 Arab-Israeli War: Encyclopedia - Arab League and the Arab-Israeli conflict

The League was established on March 22, 1945. When the League founding pact was signed in Cairo, Egypt, "[t]he Arab League states collectively put their weight behind the basic demands of Palestine's Arabs but arrogated to themselves the right to select who would represent the Palestinians in their councils, so long as their country was not independent." 1 (p.173) By the end of World War II, the Palestinian Arabs were left leaderless. The mufti of Jerusalem Hajj Amin ...

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Arab League and the Arab-Israeli conflict - Arab-Israeli peace diplomacy and treaties

1948 Arab-Israeli War: Encyclopedia - Danna

Danna was a Palestinian village that was captured by Israel during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. Besides name of the village, danna also means a man who had adopted a formal relationship with a geisha in Japan (please see Memoirs of a Geisha for further details). See also. List of villages depopulated during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war ...

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1948 Arab-Israeli War: Encyclopedia - Six-Day War

The Six-Day War (Hebrew: מלחמת ששת הימים transliteration: Milhemet Sheshet Hayamim), also known as the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, Six Days' War, or June War, was fought between Israel and its Arab neighbors Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. It began when Israel launched what it considered a pre-emptive attack against Egypt, following the latter's closure of the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping and the deployment of troops in the Sinai near the Israeli border, and after months of increasingly tense bord ...

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Six-Day War - Background

Six-Day War - Warfare

Six-Day War - Footnotes

1948 Arab-Israeli War: Encyclopedia - British Mandate of Palestine

The British Mandate of Palestine was a territory in the Middle East including the modern territories of Israel, Jordan, and the West Bank and Gaza Strip, formerly belonging to the Ottoman Empire, which the League of Nations entrusted to the United Kingdom to administer in the aftermath of World War I as a Mandate Territory. British Mandate of Palestine - Establishment of British League of Nations mandate. British interest in Zionism dates to the rise in importance of the British Empire's South Asian enterpr ...

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1948 Arab-Israeli War: Encyclopedia - Jerusalem Day

Jerusalem Day - Yom Yerushalayim (Hebrew: *יום ירושלים - כ"ח באייר) is an annual Israeli national holiday celebrated on Iyar 28. According to the 1947 UN Partition Plan, Jerusalem was supposed to be an international city, not part of either the proposed Jewish or Arab state. The city was divided between Israeli and Jordanian control during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War and nineteen years later East Jerusalem wa ...

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1948 Arab-Israeli War: Encyclopedia - Uri Avnery

Uri Avnery (Hebrew: אורי אבנרי), born September 10, 1923 in Beckum (Westphalia, Germany) as Helmut Ostermann, is an Israeli journalist and controversial peace activist. He was a member of the Knesset from 1965 to 1973 and again from 1979 to 1981. As a youth, he was a member of the Revisionist Zionist paramilitary group, Irgun. In the 1948 Arab-Israeli War he was a fighter in the Samson's Foxes jeep unit (and also wrote its anthem). Afterwards, he wrote a book about the war, called "In the Fields of the Philistines" (Hebrew ...

1948 Arab-Israeli War: Encyclopedia II - Lydda and Ramle during the 1948 Arab-Israeli war - Israeli takeover

Lydda(Lod) and Ramle were two medium-sized towns located on the important Tel-Aviv—Jerusalem road. In the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, the Israel Defense Forces captured them on July 12, 1948 and expelled almost all of the towns' residents, an estimated 40,000 Palestinians, at gunpoint. The expulsion was carried out by the Yiftach and Kiryati brigades as part of Operation Danny, allegedly ordered by Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion. ...

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