docmauser1
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Cool, isn't it?It is said that in 1948 five Arab countries attacked Israel. These five countries lost and Israel won land.
I knew arab cheeleading crowd would say that.This is false.[/size][/i]
Exept that, arabs had happily lost land.A cease fire was called by UN resolution to end the fighting. No one surrendered. No one won or lost that war.
But we claimed earlier there had been no agreements signed, didn't we? Why the change of heart?The Israeli government signed armistice agreements with Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, (Iraq was under Jordanian command) and Egypt in 1949. These agreements came after the end of the League of Nations, after the UN General Assembly passed resolution 181, after the end of the British run Palestine Mandate, After a group of foreigners declared themselves to be the state of Israel inside Palestine, and after the 1948 war.
One can't win anything from the nonexistent, of course.These armistice agreements confirmed that Palestine's borders remained unchanged. Palestine remained whole. Israel had won no land from Palestine.