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	1948 arab-israeli war - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		The 1948 Arab-Israeli War, called the "War of Independence" (Hebrew: מלחמת העצמאות) by Israelis and "al Nakba" (Arabic: النكبة, "the catastrophe") by Arabs, 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 controlled by Egypt and Transjordan.
		On May 26, 1948, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) was officially established and the Haganah, Palmach and Etzel were dissolved into the army of the young Jewish state.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/1948-Arab-Israeli-War (3658 words)

	War of Independence - Mil'hemet Hashi'hrur - definition - Zionism and Israel -Encyclopedia / Dictionary/Lexicon of ...
		War of Independence - (in Hebrew - Milhemet Hashichrur or Milchemet Hashi'hrur (pronounced Mil 'hemet Hah shi'h rur).
		The War of Independence or 1948 War is divided into the pre-independence period, and the post-independence period.
		It is generally agreed that April 1948 marked a turning point in the fighting before the invasion by Arab armies, in favor of the initially outnumbered and outgunned Jewish forces.
	www.zionism-israel.com /dic/War_of_Independence.htm (2094 words)

	1948
		At the beginning of the War of Independence in 1948, the Arab armies assumed they would be facing the same group of soldiers they had almost defeated the last time.
		In 1948, Arab armies seemed to continue to advance, and the Israelis had to concentrate their forces in one spot just to hold ground.
		The War of Independence served to widen the already wide gape between the Arab states.
	members.tripod.com /arabisrael/page2.html (1102 words)

	Crimes Of War Project > The Book (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Moreover, the wars have been at least partly fought in areas crowded with civilians (the whole of Palestine in 1948, the Gaza Strip in 1956 and 1967, the West Bank and Golan Heights in 1967, and southern Lebanon and Beirut in 1982).
		There-after, in each subsequent war, and in the interregnum between wars, there were progressively fewer atrocities, a point Gen. Rafael Eitan, the IDF chief of general staff, went out of his way to make when assailed for his troops’ behavior during the 1982 invasion of Lebanon.
		Indeed, both the 1967 war (when the IDF overran crowded cities in the West Bank and Gaza Strip) and the 1973 war (when the IDF conquered the populated west bank of the Suez Canal) were marked by almost no civilian casualties.
	www.crimesofwar.org /thebook/arab-israeli-war.html (3121 words)

	1948 Arab-Israeli War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In 1948, Egypt was able to put a maximum of around 40,000 men into the field, 80% of its military-age male population being unfit for military service and its embryonic logistics system being limited in its ability to support ground forces deployed beyond its borders.
		By July 1948, the IDF was fielding 63,000 troops; by early spring 1949, 115,000.
		The Galilee Squadron was formed at Yavniel in March 1948 and the Negev Squadron was formed at Nir-Am in April.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/1948_Arab-Israeli_War (7804 words)

	The War of Independence, 1948 - The Peace Encyclopedia
		On May 14, 1948, against all the odds, the modern state of Israel was reborn.
		In 1948, after the UN voted to give Israel statehood, Jordan and 6 other Arab countries invaded the reborn Jewish homeland, despite the fact that those Arab states were not directly affected by Israel's rebirth.
		The Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Palestine War 1948, by Efraim Karsh
	peace.heebz.com /warindep.html (1493 words)

	::Israel and the 1948 War::
		In May 1948, Israel became an independent state after Israel was recognised by the United Nations as a country in its own right within the Middle East.
		The scene was set for almost perpetual conflict between the Arab nations and Israel that culminated in the 1956, 1967 and 1973 wars.
		The 1948 war, which the Israelis referred to as the "War of Independence", claimed 6,000 Israeli lives — but this was only 1% of the nation’s population.
	www.historylearningsite.co.uk /israel_and_the_1948_war.htm (721 words)

	Seraphic Secret: 1948 - 2006: The War of Independence Continues (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This article by David Horovitz, caught my eye because of his notion that this war is simply a continuation of the 1948 War of Liberation.
		For it occurs to me that every war Israel fights, and there have been eight wars since 1948, is a continuation of the War of Liberation in one way odf=r the other--except for the 1956 Suez War.
		There are those who have branded this latest conflict a continuation of Israel's War of Independence, and there is no little truth in the assertion.
	www.seraphicpress.com /archives/2006/07/948_2006_the_wa.php (634 words)

	The War of Independence (1948)
		* In 1948, after the UN voted to give Israel statehood, Jordan and 6 other Arab countries invaded the reborn Jewish homeland, despite the fact that those Arab states were not directly affected by Israel's rebirth.
		Jamal Husseini informed the Security Council on April 16, 1948: "The representatives of the Jewish Agency told us yesterday they were not the attackers, that the Arabs had begun the fighting.
		We told the whole world that we were going to fight." As for the British commander of Jordan's Arab Legion, John Bagot Glubb, he remarked candidly: "Early in January, the first detachments of the Arab Liberation Army began to infiltrate into Palestine from Syria.
	arabterrorism.tripod.com /FAQ/war1948.html (1232 words)

	Indonesian War of Independence
		Unlike Burma and the Philippines, Indonesia was not granted formal independence by the Japanese in 1943.
		In western Java in 1948, an Islamic mystic named Kartosuwirjo, with the support of kyai and others, established a breakaway regime called the Indonesian Islamic State (Negara Islam Indonesia), better known as Darul Islam (from the Arabic, dar-al-Islam, house or country of Islam), a political movement committed to the establishment of a Muslim theocracy.
		The result of the conference was an agreement that the Netherlands would recognize the RUSI as an independent state, that all Dutch military forces would be withdrawn, and that elections would be held for a Constituent Assembly.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/war/indo-inde.htm (2075 words)

	1948 - Israel's War of Independence
		Egypt and Syria sponsored teams of Palestinian guerrillas known as Fedayeen ("sacrificers"), to continue the war on a small scale until the frontline states were ready for the next round.
		In 1947 and 1948 there were anti-Jewish riots in Aden (where 82 Jews were killed), in Egypt (where 150 Jews were killed), in Libya (where 14 Jews were killed as a follow-up to a savage 1945 pogrom), in Syria (where Jewish emigration was forbidden), and in Iraq (where "Zionism" became a capital crime).
		The transfer of populations on a massive scale, either by war or by state policy, is a distinctive feature of twentieth century history.
	www.mideastnewswire.com /archive/me_israel_1948.html (1832 words)

	History of Israel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The independence of the modern State of Israel was achieved in 1948 after more than sixty years of efforts by Zionist leaders to establish sovereignty and self-determination in the Jewish National Homeland.
		In a desperate and costly war characterized by use of makeshift armaments and resourceful tactics, Israel eventually repelled the attacking armies, and then advanced its forces to occupy some of the territory set aside under the Partition Plan for the Arabs and for the City of Jerusalem.
		As a result of the 1948 war, Israel controlled all the territory allotted to them under the Partition Plan, much of the territory allotted to the Arabs under the Plan, and half of what was to be the UN-administered City of Jerusalem.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_Israel (8040 words)

	1948-Israel War of Independence
		With the declarationof Independence, came the invasion of Israel by the armies of all the surrounding Arab states.
		On the day that IsraelÕs independence was declared, the Arab Legion captured the Jewish settlements in the Etzion Bloc, located between Hebron and Bethlehem.
		While earlier in the war IsraelÕs policy towards the local Arabs was a mixed one, in these two cities the Arab residents were encouraged to board trucks and were transported to Legion lines.
	www.multied.com /Israel/1948WarofIndependance.html (956 words)

	Israeli War of Independence
		The war was marked by long periods of fighting and temporary cease-fires.
		The Arab states, however, refused to recognize Israel's existence and negotiate peace and remained in a state of war with the Jewish state.
		They continued their economic, political, social and cultural boycott of the Jewish state which was instituted by the Arab League in 1945.
	www.adl.org /ISRAEL/Record/48war.asp (377 words)

	The Jewish Post - News - "Altalena Affair:" A Blood Libel - June 22, 1948 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It took place during the 1948 War of Independence, when Israel was attacked by Palestinians and many Arab countries such as Jordan, Egypt, Syria and Iraq.
		In 1948 the left argued that the Irgun, under the leadership of Begin, planned an army revolution in order to take over the new regime.
		The arms and weapons could change the Independence war, but as we know, all of it was destroyed, exploded by the shelling of the so-called "Holy Cannon."
	www.jewishpost.com /jp0911/jpn0911b.htm (795 words)

	Lessons of the Battles of Latrun
		The monastery of Latrun and the adjacent fort built by the British became famous in 1948 as the site of three bloody battles, which were outstanding and controversial failures of the Hagana and Israel Defense Force in the 1948 War (War of Independence).
		The Arab states, in particular Egypt, Syria and Transjordan, promptly declared war, and those three countries, with reinforcements from Saudi Arabia and Iraq, invaded both the territory allotted to the Palestinian state to be and territory allotted to Israel.
		Supplies had improved by May 1948, but even as late as the battle of Latrun, the Alexandroni brigade stripped the soldiers of the 32nd battalion of their rifles before detaching them to the 7th brigade, because there simply weren't enough rifles for each soldier.
	www.mideastweb.org /latrun.htm (5324 words)

	The 1948 War
		In the first phase of the war, lasting from November 29, 1947 until April 1, 1948, the Palestinian Arabs took the offensive, with help from volunteers from neighboring countries.
		This was prior to the invasion by the regular Arab armies that followed Israel's declaration of independence.
		During the summer of 1948, Count Folke Bernadotte was sent by the UN to Palestine to mediate a truce and try to negotiate a settlement.
	www.us-israel.org /jsource/History/1948_War.html (1639 words)

	Fuel for Truth
		Jews have lived in the West Bank and Gaza Strip throughout recorded history, until the 1948 War of Independence, when they were forced to flee the invading Arab armies.
		Sons and daughters of Jews who lived there until 1948 were the first to return after the 1967 war.
		Egypt and Jordan gained control of these areas during the 1948 War with the newly established Israel, which according to the 1947 UN Partition Plan, were to be part of the independent Arab state to be established alongside an independent Jewish state.
	www.fuelfortruth.org /thetruth/truth_7.asp (670 words)

	Middle East: Arab-Israeli Conflict
		Since the 1948 War of Independence, Israel has had to fight four wars with its Arab neighbors.
		During the war, Israel captured the Sinai desert, but eventually withdrew in response to U.S. pressure and returned the territory it had gained to Egypt.
		This was known as the war of attrition.
	www.fresno.k12.ca.us /divdept/sscience/history/middle_east.htm (716 words)

	War of Independence
		In the first phase of the war, lasting from November 29, 1947 until April 1, 1948, the arabs in Israel took the offensive, with help of volunteers from neighboring countries.
		During the summer of 1948, count folke bernadotte was sent by the un to Israel to mediate a truce and try to negotiate a settlement.
		In the second phase, the army of the newly independent Israel--officially established on May 28 as the Israel Defense Forces (IDF)--fought primarily against regular troops from egypt, iraq, transjordan, syria, and lebanon, who were supported by volunteer detachments from saudi arabia, libya, and yemen.
	amichai.com /war/process/independence.html (2621 words)

	Canadian Jewish News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the 1948 War of Independence Ariel Sharon, then aged 20, headed an infantry company in the Alexandroni Brigade.
		He was severely wounded in the Second Battle of Latrun while fighting to keep open the Jerusalem road, owing his life to another soldier, Ya’acov Bugin.Today Sharon greeted his old comrade in arms at the Alexandroni Brigade Memorial site at Nahshon Junction near to where the brigade fought its toughest battles.
		It is said that the 1948 battle for the village of Latrun, near to this memorial, laid the foundations of his military and political approach.
	www.cjnews.com /viewarticle.asp?id=3507 (118 words)

	Start of the War of Independence
		Early in the war, from November 29, 1947 until April 1, 1948, the Palestinian Arabs took the offensive, with help from volunteers from neighboring countries.
		Starting in April 1948, the Haganah took the initiative, and in six weeks was able to turn the tables by capturing the Arab sections of Tiberias, Haifa and later also Safed and Acre.
		From mid-May to mid-July, the critical phase of the war, came the simultaneous, coordinated assault on the new State of Israel by five regular Arab armies from neighboring countries (Egypt, Syria, Transjordan, Lebanon and Iraq), with an overwhelming superiority of heavy equipment - armor, artillery and airforce.
	www.palestinefacts.org /pf_independence_war_start.php (702 words)

	Israel's Wars 1948-2000 - Israel War Yom Kippur Six day 6 day war war of independence
		Experience the struggles and the joy of the War of Independence (1948), when five heavily equipped modern armies struck at this tiny nation on the day of her birth, sending her citizens scrambling to form make-shift weapons of irrigation pipes and other agricultural tools.
		Witness the miracles shown Israel during the Gulf War (1991), the first war that Israelis had the leisure to "sit back and watch" from behind their gas masks as U.S. defense systems exploded incoming Iraqi missiles like fireworks in the sky.
		The Sinai Campaign of 1956, the War of Attrition from 1967-1970, and the invasion of Lebanon in 1982 are also included, providing an extensive overview of this war-torn nation's heroic past...
	www.jewishsoftware.com /products/Israel39s_Wars_1948-2000_690.asp (411 words)

	Israeli War of Independence
		In January 1948, President Truman, warned by the United States Department of State that a Jewish state was not viable, reversed himself on the issue of Palestine, agreeing to postpone partition and to transfer the Mandate to a trusteeship council.
		By January 1949, Jewish forces held the area that was to define Israel's territory until June 1967, an area that was significantly larger than the area designated by the UN partition plan.
		Early in the conflict, on May 29, 1948, the UN Security Council established the Truce Commission headed by a UN mediator, Swedish diplomat Folke Bernadotte, who was assassinated in Jerusalem on September 17, 1948.
	www.globalsecurity.org /military/world/war/israel-inde.htm (1290 words)

	The Palestine Refugee Problem
		The war, and the flight of the refugees, known in Arabic as the Nakba (disaster), were central formative events that determined the national character of Israel and of the Palestinians, and helped to define the conflict in its present terms.
		The refugees of the 1948 Israeli war of independence and the lesser number of refugees of the 1967 war constitute a real monumental humanitarian and political problem, and no resolution of the conflict can ignore them.
		Israel views the 1948 refugees as hostile persons sympathetic with a belligerent aggressor, and passed a law forbidding their return, and assigning all their land holdings to a custodian of absentee property.
	www.mideastweb.org /refugees1.htm (6184 words)

	Hanefesh: Israel Independence Day (Yom HaAtzmaut)
		The end of the war defined the borders of the new State of Israel in a radically new way.
		By January 1948 the Palestine Arab Higher Committee asked other Arab countries to bar entry of refugees because the Arab exodus from Palestine was so alarming.
		Once the war was over, the population began to rise by leaps and bounds with Jewish immigrants coming not only from Arab countries, but also from other states and more recently from Ethiopia and Russia.
	www.hanefesh.com /edu/Holidays/Israel_Independence_Day.htm (2887 words)

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