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In May 1948 the state of Israel was born. The colonial ruler, Britain, had grown exasperated at the insoluble and rising violence between Zionists and Palestinians. They had unceremoniously dumped the problem into the lap of the UN. The UN drew up a plan of partition, awarding slightly over half of the territory to the Zionists. The plan was reasonably fair, but impractical. Neither side wanted to share the land; they wanted it all. The boundaries of the new state were decided by war.
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Swift, J. (2003). The Middle East Wars and the Threat to World Peace. In: The Palgrave Concise Historical Atlas of the Cold War. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230001183_35
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