Conflict in the Middle East after the Six-Day War of 1967
On May 14, 1948, the state of Israel declared its independence, thus achieving the long-held goal of the world Jewish community for a national homeland. Israel then fought a war for its existence, decisively defeating the combined forces of the Arab nations of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, and Syria. The end of this war in 1949 did not bring peace to the Middle East, however. It drove approximately 700,000 of the native Arab inhabitants of Israel—known as Palestinians, for their claim to the territory formerly known as Palestine—out of Israel and into neighboring countries, especially...
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