HIST 150 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Arab Higher Committee, Israel Defense Forces, David Ben-Gurion
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1948: minor disagreements that escalate to attacks, arab-israeli conflict, summary: arabs and jews fight over land, the longest, and one of the only unresolved nationalist struggles. Intensive jewish immigration to palestine from 1880s: conflicts between jews and arab escalates from 1910s and after wwi, david ben gurion: leader of the jews in palestine, later israel"s first. Prime minister: 1920-1948: jews create a state within state in palestine arabs only organize in. Arab armies of egypt, jordan, syria, lebanon, and iraq: more arab soldiers than jewish soldiers. Jewish had better weapons and combat experience, whereas british created new arab forces with little experience and old weapons: war results: Israel expanded borders, creation of palestinian refugee problem: the six day war (1967) Israel captures sinai from egypt, west bank and jerusalem from jordan, Golan heights from syria: arab-israeli conflict enters the cold war, us on the israeli side, soviets support egypt and syria, 1973: yom kippur/october war.
