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Israel as an independent state was created in 1948, three years after Hitler was dead and the Nazi regime crushed.

In terms of territory, the German Afrika Corps, under Gen. Erwin Rommel, was decisively defeated at the Battle of El Alamein in Egypt. This prevented the Nazis from invading Palestine from the Egyptian side. Also Syria and Lebanon came under Free-French control in July 1941 as a result of the Syria-Lebanon Campaign, effectively preventing the Germans from invading from the north. (These territories had been under Vichy French control from June 1940, but Germany was concentrated outside of the Middle East in late 1940 and early 1941. In Mid-1941, the Nazis tried to establish a Fascist State in Iraq, but failed as a result of the Anglo-Iraqi War of 1941.

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