A 2-player game covering the 1948 Arab-Israeli war. One player plays the Israeli forces and the other plays the Arab League forces. There is a hex map of Israel and surrounding countries. The units are mostly brigades - about 20 on the Israeli side and 30 on the Arab side. ...
bilateral negotiations were conducted between Israel and Palestinian representatives and Syria to achieve a permanent settlement. On 24 June 2002, US President BUSH laid out a "road map" for resolving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, which envisions a two-state solution. However, progress toward a...
" of 1948, when following the creation of the Israeli state, some 750,000 Palestinians were expelled from or fled their villages and became refugees, denied the right of return. Today,some 70% of Gaza's population are registered as refugees,and descendants of refugees, from the 1948 Arab-Is...
The British had imposed strict quotas on the number of immigrants after World War II and the numbers were quite low, so Eli would take a small fishing trawler from British Palestine to Cyprus and other European locations to pick up Jewish refugees from the Holocaust and smuggle them at night ...
Historical maps of Palestine evidence that Israel did not exist until 1948. Map of World ca. 43 Map of Palestine ca. 1851 Map of Palestine ca. 1864 Map of Palestine ca. 1866 Map of Palestine ca. 1887 Lawrence of Arabia ca. 1918 Map of Palestine ca. WW1 1918 Map of Pales...
California authorities have arrested a man in connection with the death of a Jewish protester during demonstrations over the Israel-Hamas war. The Ventura County Sheriff's Office said the 50-year-old suspect was arrested Thursday and will be booked into jail in the investigation of involuntary ma...
By the end of the first day of the ground offensive, Israel announced that its forces had bisected the Gaza Strip and surrounded the city of Gaza. Heavy combat war also reported near the northern Gaza towns of Beit Lahiya, Beit Hanun and Jabaliya. ...
3) First Israeli coin minted (August 17, 1948) Israel's first coin minted was 25 mil, made of aluminum, and featured a a cluster of grapes modeled after a coin from the Bar-Kokhba war against the Romans. This set a precedent followed to this day of using designs of ancient Jewish coi...
After World War II, the British withdrew from their mandate of Palestine, and the United Nations proposed dividing the area into Arab and Jewish states, an idea opposed by the Arabs. Nonetheless, Israelis declared independence in 1948 and the new country then defeated the Arabs in a series of...
In Israel’s call for the evacuation of half of Gaza’s population, many Palestinians fear a repeat of the most traumatic event in their tortured history, their mass exodus from what is now Israel during the 1948 war surrounding its creation. Palestinians refer to it as the Nakba, or “cat...