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The United States became an independent country in 1776, separating itself from the British rule.
Modern Israel, which declared itself to be an independent nation in May of 1948, is known as the Jewish State.
Simply by declaring itself independent in 1811. The Spanish Governor stepped down and joined the first provisional government. Spain let the matter rest.
The 1948 War was the war in which the State of Israel fought the Arab armies to establish itself in the former British Palestine Mandate.
Israel and Egypt have never fought a one-on-one war. Egypt was one of the nations whose armies joined in a coordinated, synchronized attack on Israel in 1948, when Israel declared itself an independent sovereign nation, in an attempt to forcefully convey the statement "Oh no you don't!". Israel obviously didn't "lose" that one.
An independent clause can stand by itself.
Haiti is an independent republic. It controls itself.
Israel (State of Israel) declared its independence in 1948.
The Jewish communities on the coastal area of historic Palestine declared a state for them to protect themselves after the British Mandate on Palestine ended. .
Independent by the word itself we can understand that it is not dependent on any. consider INDIA got independence i.e., mean it is free from the iron clutches of British..
1948 by U.N decision. War broke as some Arab countries didn't like the idea of Jewish settlement in the middle east.
1. Allying itself with Austria-Hungary. 2. Declaring war on England and France.