Abandoning the previous defensive strategy, Ben Gurion gave orders that began the battle of Dier Yasin, destroying Arab villages on the road to Jerusalem. Milstein's account gives new insight into this conflict, and reinvestigates the entire War of Independence. This book will be useful to ...
The human tragedy of being uprooted notwithstanding, Arab refugees were neither hapless targets nor innocent bystanders. The first stage of the 1948 war was a fierce interethnic or anti-Zionist civil war in which Palestinian Arabs were the aggressors and the initiators; the second half was an a...
the country's national cemetery. The national flag was raised from half-mast to full-mast, marking the transition from the solemn Memorial Day for Fallen Soldiers and Victims of Terror to the Independence Day celebration.
In 2048, when Israel will celebrate its 100th year of independence, the population is expected to reach 15 million residents, and in 2065, according to the same source, 20 million people will be living in Israel. The report, published annually ahead of Rosh Hashanah, reveals that 7,181,000...
of America has also drawn on the Christian faith in ways which dismiss the most basic Christian call to caring for the vulnerable, loving of neighbours, and working for a good society for all. Such distortions of Christianity have produced innumerable violences, and the justifying of such ...
This chapter aims to describe the evolution of Arab-Israeli relations from 1948 until 2020, with a particular emphasis on the post-Arab Spring period. In the first decades of Israel’s existence, Arab countries were an enemy of the new-born Jewish state. The first Arab country to sign a ...
Israel Defense Forces (IDF), armed forces of Israel, comprising the Israeli army, navy, and air force. The order to create the IDF was issued on May 26, 1948, and went into effect on May 31, 1948, just two weeks after Israel’s declaration of independence. Since its creation, its gui...
It aided in the organization of Hezbollah, a predominantly Shiʿi militia founded that same year to repel the Israeli invasion, and remained a close ally and sponsor of the militant group even after the civil war ended in 1990. In the 1990s it turned its attention to Iran’s eastern ...
US President Donald Trump has once again stirred controversy with his proposal to “take over” Gaza, relocate its Palestinian population, and turn the war-torn enclave into the “Riviera of the Middle East.” For more stories from The Media Line go tothemedialine.org ...
“Modern Israel came into existence on 14 May 1948 as the homeland for the Jewish people. It was also defined in its declaration of independence as a “Jewish state,” a term that appeared in the United Nations partition decision of 1947 as well. The related term “Jewish and democratic st...