ISRAEL'S INDEPENDENCE

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Events Surrounding the Independence of the State of Israel (1947-1949)

• Why did the British Mandate end?
• What did the British do for Jordan at the end of the Mandate?
• What was the role of the United Nations?
• Why did the Arabs reject the UN plan?
• When was the modern State of Israel Founded?
• What is the legal basis for the State of Israel?
• What countries recognized the State of Israel?
• Why did the United States immediately recognize the State of Israel?
• How did neighboring Arab countries react?
• How did Arabs within the British Mandate territory react?
• Who started the War of Independence?
• What was the course of the War of Independence?
• What happened at Lod and Ramle in July 1948?
• How did the War of Independence end?
• Who killed the UN official Count Folke Bernadotte?
• What was the status of Jerusalem at the end of the War of Independence?
• What about Israeli atrocities against Arabs?
• What about Arab atrocities against Jews?
• What happened at Dir Yassin?
• Why did Arabs leave the new State of Israel?
• What happened to the Arab refugees from Israel?
• Doesn't UN Resolution 194 give the Arab refugees a right of return to Israel?
• Why did Jews go to Israel from other Middle Eastern countries?
• What happened to the Jewish refugees from Middle Eastern countries?

Sources and additional reading on this topic:

• 50 Years Anniversary of Israel
• UN Information System on the Question of Palestine
• The God that did not fail
• Back to the Future: NPR Rewrites Israel’s War of Independence