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1948 Palestine war
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The 1948 Palestine war refers to the events that happened in Palestine between the vote on the partition plan of Palestine on November 30, 1947, to the end of the first Arab-Israeli war on July 20, 1949.
Historians divide this into two phases :
At the issue of the war, the State of Israel kept most of the area it had been allocated by the partition plan and took control of Jaffa, Lydda and Ramle area, Galilee, Negev, a strip along the Tel-Aviv-Jerusalem road and some territories around Samaria (called today West Bank).
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The 1948 Palestine war refers to the events that happened in Palestine between the vote on the partition plan of Palestine on November 30, 1947, to the end of the first Arab-Israeli war on July 20, 1949.
Historians divide this into two phases :
- A Civil War (also named Intercommunal War) in which Palestinian Arabs, supported by the Arab Liberation Army, and Palestinian Jews, fought against each other while the region was still fully under British rule.
- The 1948 Arab–Israeli War after May 15, in which Transjordan, Egypt, Syria and Iraq sent expeditonnary forces to Palestine that fought Israel's forces.
At the issue of the war, the State of Israel kept most of the area it had been allocated by the partition plan and took control of Jaffa, Lydda and Ramle area, Galilee, Negev, a strip along the Tel-Aviv-Jerusalem road and some territories around Samaria (called today West Bank). No Arab Palestinian state was created: the remainder of the West Bank was annexed by Jordan and the Gaza Strip was placed under Egyptian military rule.
Due to the war, demographic changes occurred in the country. Between 700,000 and 750,000 Palestian Arabs fled or were expelled from the area that became Israel but could not settle in the neighborhood Arab states and became what is known today as the Palestinian refugees. On the other side, around 10,000 Jews were also forced to leave their homes in Palestine. In the three years following the war, 700,000 Jews settled in Israel, mainly along the borders and in former Arab lands. Around 136,000 came from the 250,000 displaced Jews of World War II. Most others were part of the 758,000 to 900,000 Jews who left Arab countries between 1948 and the Six-Day War.
The Israelis refer to this period as their War of Independence or War of Liberation, because it saw the birth of the State of Israel while Palestinians, and Arabs refer to this as al-Nakba (the catastrophe), because of the population massive exodus and the death of their nationalist aspirations, due to the takeover of their land.
Events
Controversies
After the war, Israeli and Palestinian historiographies differed on the interpretation of the events of 1948. In 1980, and the opening of the Israeli and British archives, Israeli historians started giving new insights on them. Particularly, the role played by Abdullah I of Jordan, the British government, the Arab aims during the war, the balance of force and the events related to the Palestinian exodus have been nuanced or given new interpretations. Some of them are still hotly debated among historians and commentators of the conflict today.
Further reading
- Eugene Rogan & Avi Shlaim, The War for Palestine - Rewriting the history of 1948, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
- Efraim Karsh, The Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Palestine War 1948, Osprey publishing, 2002.
- David Tal, War in Palestine, 1948. Strategy and Diplomacy, Routledge, 2004.
- Yoav Gelber, Palestine 1948, Sussex Academic Press, Brighton, 2006, ISBN 1845190750
- Benny Morris, 1948, Yale University Press, 2008, ISBN 9780300126969
- Walid Khalidi, , Journal of Palestine Studies, 27(3), 79, 1998.
- Saleh Abdel Jawad, The Arab and Palestinian Narratives of the 1948 War, in Robert I. Rotberg, Israeli and Palestinian Narratives of Conflict, Indiana University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-253-21857-5.
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