Anonymous ID: d7bee4 May 14, 2021, 8:15 p.m. No.13665346   ๐Ÿ—„๏ธ.is ๐Ÿ”—kun

>>13665147

May 15th

War of Independence in Hebrew and The Catastrophe in Arabic.

 

On May 15, 1948, the UK withdrew from Palestine. (It had been given a mandate over the territories after it defeated the Ottomans in World War I.) The evening before, David Ben-Gurion, President of the Jewish Agency for Palestine, declared Israelโ€™s statehood and independence. This prompted the Syrian, Egyptian, Jordanian, Iraqi, and Saudi Arabian armies to invade Israel. Thus began the 1948 Arab-Israeli War. Despite being heavily outnumbered, the Israelis beat back all of their attackers and established Israel as a state. To this day the war is known as the War of Independence in Hebrew and The Catastrophe in Arabic.