In 1948-1955, 720,000 Palestinians fled Israel and 850,000 Jews fled the Arab countries.
Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9.
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In the middle east in 1948, it became a region. The Arab-Israeli War also happened in this year, beginning in May.
The Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9, often called the Israeli Independence War by Israeli sympathizers and the Nakba or Catastrophe by Arab sympathizers.
Israel's stability was not contingent on the Holocaust. Israel's stability came about as a result of the Armistice of 1949 with the Arab States in the Arab-Israeli War of 1948-9.
There has never been a civil war in Israel, whether the ancient Israel or the modern one. If this is referring to the Jewish-Arab Engagement that eventually became the Arab-Israeli War of 1948, this conflict had dragged on for 8-9 months before becoming part of the Arab-Israeli War of 1948, for a total of 20 months.
The British Departure from Mandatory Palestine, the Establishment of the State of Israel, and the Palestinian Arab Exodus during the 1948-9 Arab-Israeli War are some of the most important events in grounding the Arab-Israeli Conflict.
Many Arabs fled Israel and were forced to live in refugee camps for decades.
They are the people who stayed in Palestine after Israel declared its Independence in 1948. These Arabs were given the option of having Israeli citizenship and took it. They live in the pre-1967 Israel only.
Israel won the Arab-Israeli War.
A result of that conflict is the very existence of the State of Israel.