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*Palestine and Partition
February 1, 1947
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*U.N Approves Palestine Partition
November 20, 1947
Arab Threat of Uprising Follows Act
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*Jewish Fight For National Home In Holy Land
November 30, 1947
United Nations Debates Partition
History since after WWI
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*Middle East Threatened by Holy War
December 1, 1947
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*U.N. Alarmed
December 1, 1947
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*35 Known Dead As Arab-Jew Battles Sweep Holy Land
December 3, 1947
UN to Stick to Its Hands-Off
Position in Palestine Crisis
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*Angry Arabs Attack Jews on Partition
December 5, 1947
Number Slain in Four Riotous Days Increases To 44
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*Arabs Attack Jewish Lines in Jaffa Area
December 8, 1947
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*British Lock Arabs, Jews in Walled City
December 9, 1947
Fighting Rages
Toll in Strike is Set at 146
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*Arabs Storm Kastel Anew: Seek Startegic Point
April 10, 1948
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*Arabs take Kastel in New Assault
April 12, 1948
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*Arab Group Ready to Kill Palestine Partition Plan
April 12, 1948
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*State of Israel Born Amid Strife
May 13, 1948
State of Israel Born Amid Strife
Jew, Arabs Prepare for War
Britain's 31-Year Rule of Holy Land Is Ended
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*Arabs Evacuating Palestine Port
April 24 1948
Thousands of Arabs are evacuating Haifa,
port city in northern Palestine,
rather than surrender to Haganah, the Jewish militia.
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*Jewish Troops Surround Arab Points as Arabs Plan Wearing-Down War
May 1, 1948
Attrition War Decided Upon By Arab States
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*Trusteeship Proposed: Arabs Say they will Oppose with Force
May 1, 1948
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*Truce in Effect Temporarily In Jerusalem
May 1, 1948
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*Arab Armies Converge On Palestine
May 2, 1948
British Stand Pat On Pledge to Resist Push
Battle for Jerusalem Continues As Churches Observe Easter
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*Arab Armies Converge On Palestine (page 15)
May 2, 1948
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*British Halt Jerusalem Battle
May 3, 1948
Fresh Troops Pour into City to Keep Peace
Withdrawal Tactics Thrown into Reverse
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*Arabs Abandon Jaffa to Jews, Residents Flee
May 6, 1948
Calm of Truce at Jerusalem is Shattered by Machine Gun and Mortar Fire.
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*Jewish Twenty Mile Defense Line Ready to Stop Arab Legion
May 14, 1948
Abdullah will invade,
Jews seize villages on frontier,
Arabs seize Allenby Bridge
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*Israel Charges British Helped Fan Arab Exodus Panic
August 20, 1948
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*No place left in Israel for Arabs who fled
June 5, 1949
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