Israel is a country like no other. Israel existed for centuries and then disappeared from the map only to resurface in 1948, after A U.N. mandate gave the Jewish people a homeland once again. Up until that time the Jewish people were constantly under attack worldwide and the worst of these attacks was culminated in Germany under Hitler who literally tried to destroy the Jews as a people. The seventeenth of May in 1948 Israel was proclaimed as a nation, and less than one full day later she was under attack by Egypt, Transjordan, Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq. It took fifteen months, but the Isra...
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