International Involvement
Evaluate the impact of the international involvement in the conflict from 1948-1956
During the conflicts of 1948-56 there was a heavy involvement of international powers such as USA, Soviet Union, France and Great Britain. Before the war of 1948 for the fight for independence, Palestine was owned by the British but on November 29th, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Partition Resolution that would divide Great Britain's former Palestinian mandate into Jewish and Arab states in May 1948. Under the resolution, the area of religious significance surrounding Jerusalem would remain under international control by the United Nations. The Palestinian Arabs refused to recognize this resolution, which to them had favoured the Jews and was unfair to the Arab population that would remain in Jewish territory under the partition.
On the 15th May 1948 the Palestinian Arabs attacked with countries such as Egypt, Lebanon, Transjordan, Iraq & Syria providing them with help to conquer back to what they thought was theirs. Israel had only just declared independence the day before on the 14th May 1948.Within a few weeks the Arab Legion had already taken back one third of Israel, by this time the UN was very hesitant on what to do as there was supposed to be peace within the Middle East so this is when the UN arranged a truce on 11th June. At this stage in time the Israelis were regaining their army by buying modern weapons from Czech’s and were preparing to fight back with much more force from the previous encounter. The United States sought a middle way by supporting the United Nations resolution, but also encouraging negotiations between Arabs and Jews in the Middle East showing that they were trying to get amongst the situation then actually trying to taking a side. A series of armistice agreements between the Arab states and Israel caused the end of the war and Israel was left standing with all the land of Palestine.
In the late months of 1948 the
During the conflicts of 1948-56 there was a heavy involvement of international powers such as USA, Soviet Union, France and Great Britain. Before the war of 1948 for the fight for independence, Palestine was owned by the British but on November 29th, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly adopted the Partition Resolution that would divide Great Britain's former Palestinian mandate into Jewish and Arab states in May 1948. Under the resolution, the area of religious significance surrounding Jerusalem would remain under international control by the United Nations. The Palestinian Arabs refused to recognize this resolution, which to them had favoured the Jews and was unfair to the Arab population that would remain in Jewish territory under the partition.
On the 15th May 1948 the Palestinian Arabs attacked with countries such as Egypt, Lebanon, Transjordan, Iraq & Syria providing them with help to conquer back to what they thought was theirs. Israel had only just declared independence the day before on the 14th May 1948.Within a few weeks the Arab Legion had already taken back one third of Israel, by this time the UN was very hesitant on what to do as there was supposed to be peace within the Middle East so this is when the UN arranged a truce on 11th June. At this stage in time the Israelis were regaining their army by buying modern weapons from Czech’s and were preparing to fight back with much more force from the previous encounter. The United States sought a middle way by supporting the United Nations resolution, but also encouraging negotiations between Arabs and Jews in the Middle East showing that they were trying to get amongst the situation then actually trying to taking a side. A series of armistice agreements between the Arab states and Israel caused the end of the war and Israel was left standing with all the land of Palestine.
In the late months of 1948 the