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Originally Posted by ford man xf
From what I believe the territories that the Jews captured had been already allocated to them by the UN, the reason the Jews did this (what would seem strange to us because the land had already been allocated to them) was because they were already fighting small conflicts with the Arabs over land, the Arab League had also voted against a resolution for the creation of Israel, nations from the Arab League moved their armies into the land allocated by the UN to them.
Really the US and Britain were weak for not putting more effort in to resolve the issue.
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The US had no input and the lands (mostly) belonged to the UK and France.
The poms dumped and ran and the UN stood back and watched.
If one was cynical you could say that it was deliberately left open for a long and drawn out conflict between the different arab parties. 60yrs later....