Israel, who GIVE A SHIT if near you there is just Arabia! Do you think that for 🇸🇷 Suriname is better, having only 🇪🇸 near them? What about Equatorial Guinea? They are surrounded by Africa ... On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion, the head of the Jewish Agency, proclaimed the establishment of the State of Israel. U.S. President Harry Truman recognized the new nation on the same day https://perma.cc/MED5-EHW6 1948 End of British Mandate (14 May) State of Israel proclaimed (14 May). Israel invaded by five Arab states (15 May). Israel Defense Forces (IDF) established. War of Independence (May 1948-July 1949) https://perma.cc/33VD-EYJA After looking at alternatives, the UN proposed terminating the Mandate and partitioning Palestine into two independent States, one Palestinian Arab and the other Jewish, with Jerusalem internationalized (Resolution 181 (II) of 1947). One of the two envisaged States proclaimed its independence as Israel and in the 1948 war involving neighbouring Arab States expanded to 77 percent of the territory of mandate Palestine, including the larger part of Jerusalem. Over half of the Palestinian Arab population fled or were expelled. Jordan and Egypt controlled the rest of the territory assigned by resolution 181 to the Arab State. In the 1967 war, Israel occupied these territories (Gaza Strip and the West Bank) including East Jerusalem, which was subsequently annexed by Israel https://perma.cc/3LYM-MY9Q On 29 November, 1947, a 2000-year-old dream became reality: A Jewish State was born anew in its ancient homeland. On that day the UN General Assembly voted on Resolution 181, adopting a plan to partition the British Mandate into two states, one Jewish, one Arab. Having ruled the area since 1917, Great Britain announced in 2.1947 its decision to terminate its Mandate https://archive.is/6DySj NO MATTER WHAT, ISRAEL WAS NOT A REALITY BEFORE 1948 TOO https://t.center/PalestineForDummies/3 https://t.center/PalestineForDummies/4 https://t.center/PalestineForDummies/8 https://t.center/PalestineForDummies/287