who likes to wish a happy birthday for Israel?

[Zebra]

i do!


who else?

 

[Zebra]

glad to see that i am not alone ….. altready there are two yes votes!

 

[Zebra]

and many happy returns!

 

[Stryder50]

Birthday was about a month ago ...
The State of Israel declared its establishment on 14 May 1948, at the end of the British mandate.
Part of result from: The 1947 UN Partition Plan; The original "two state solution".

Israel - Wikipedia

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However;
The next day, armies of neighboring Arab states invaded, starting the First Arab–Israeli War.
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The civil war began the day after the adoption of the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine on 29 November 1947 – which planned to divide the territory into an Arab state, a Jewish state, and the Special International Regime encompassing the cities of Jerusalem and Bethlehem. At the end of a series of offensives that began April 1948, in which Zionist forces had conquered cities and territories in Mandatory Palestine in preparation for the establishment of a Jewish state, Zionist leaders announced the Israeli Declaration of Independence on 14 May 1948.[16] The following morning, after the termination of the British Mandate, Egypt, Transjordan, Syria, and expeditionary forces from Iraq entered Palestine.[17][18][19][20] The invading forces took control of the Arab areas and attacked Israeli forces and several Jewish settlements.[21][22][23] ...
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1948 Arab–Israeli War - Wikipedia

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