Wars in Israel 1948 War of Independence On 14 May 1948 the State of Israel was proclaimed according to the UN partition plan (1947). Less than 24 hours later, the regular armies of Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Lebanon and Iraq invaded the country, forcing Israel to defend the sovereignty it had...
Though not so well known—at least not yet in our communities—the IDFWO has been around for decades. They were there for Nava and many of the families of the 23,000 men and women who have died in Israel’s wars since 1948. Today, Nava, explains, the group is there with the family...
Wars in the middle east, outside the energy assets of the region, were motivated by territorial and border disputes, and the creation of Israel was a large part in it. But indeed, most of the tanks fielded by the Egyptians and Syrians were of Soviet origin, and the collapse of Soviet ...
It has been more than 17 years since an Israeli soldier was taken as a prisoner of war in an assault on Israeli territory. And Israel has not seen this kind of infiltration of military bases, towns and kibbutzim since town-by-town fighting in the 1948 war of independence. ...
and their Iranian patrons no longer feared Israel. Ever since independence in 1948, Israel has existed surrounded by enemies and literally has fought nearly continuous wars along its borders ever since. To many Israelis, appearing weak, or acting weak in front of its mortal foes only invites fur...
Israel has fought half a dozen wars with neighboring Arab countries, battled two Palestinian uprisings and endured scores of deadly militant attacks since its establishment in 1948. In addition to the soldiers killed in conflicts, Memorial Day honors more than 3,000 people killed in militant attack...
Israel's unending obsession with the refugee population in Gaza explains its aggressive policy toward Gaza over the past seven decades, which has included two occupations, endless military raids and offenses (the French historian Jean Pierre Filiu counted twelve Israeli wars on Gaza ...
Since 1948, the State of Israel has not only experienced many wars per se, but several successive species of war鈥攃onventional, economic, and terrorist. Historically, as one mode of war failed to overwhelm the Jewish state, a process of strategic adaptation on the part of its foes has ...
"The war is progressing well," said Weizman Nissan, 72, a resident of Sderot near Gaza and a veteran of three of Israel's wars. "The army is doing what it needs to do. It's not killing children or women and is not slaughtering babies. It's a moral army," unlike the ...
This comment could be read as asserting that the current state of the conflict is, in fact, a “1 sided war,” with Israel primarily responsible for its continuation. But by asserting that the wars in 1948, 1967 and 1973 were not unilateral, the web user recognises that there were multipl...