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Originally Posted by subcool
uhm...Isreal never fought an independence war o_O
what is now israel was a colony of Britain i believe, it was granted to them with the UN's aproval after the 2nd WW... They simply expanded their territory during the wars they fought with Egypt and their surrounding countries.
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Not entirely correct.
What happened at the time is
1. Between 1900 and 1945 alot of jewish immigrants moved to Israel, at that time a colony assigned to Britain raising the jewish population from about 10 % to some 40 %. This immigration rush speeded up alot due to the Nazi Holocaust.
2. This lead to serious tensions between the Arab and the Jewish population which lead to serious fighting in which the British often intervened to break up the fighting militia's
3. In 1947 the UN devides the territory into an equal Palestine and Jewish half (the so-called UN Partition Plan). This plan was instantly rejected by the Palestines and this lead to the start of a guerilla war between the two.
4. In 1948 , on the same day the British abandon the colony, the Jewish claim independence, the US instatly recognises this.
5. In the days after the independence declaration (which was not recognised by the Palestines ) Syria, Egypt, Jordan, Iraq and a few other Arab countries invade the former colony in an attempt to eradicate the Jews.
6. Even though they are far stronger, the Arab nations lose the war, a war that'll last almost a year.
7. After this war (and clearly it is an Independence war ! ) Israel occupied alot more terrain that it was assigned by the UN, and alot of the Arab population was driven out of Israel, and never allowed to return (these are the people currently still living in the Gaza strip/West Bank refugee camps).
Alot more wars would follow after this one however, but only years and years later, wars in which Israel would conquer the gaza strip, the sinai desert (later given back to Egypt) the west bank, south lebanon (occupied to prevent missile attacks by terrorist groups, later unilaterally abandoned), etc ...
So as you can see, there was an independence war, since upon declaring independence they got invaded by almost every Arab nation around them... It was not an independence war against their former coloniser (like the US - Britain Independence war)