Also let's get something clear about the creation of Israel. People like afc like to blab on about the Balfour Declaration like it was some clear instance of Imperialist drawing lines in the Middle East. No, in 1947, the UN ratified an agreement to create distinct Jewish and Arab states in the former Palestinian Mandate (a British controlled territory).
This didn't last as all of Israel's surrounding neighbours declared a genocidal war on the Jews and attacked Israel, which at the time received almost no international arms aid from the West, except for equipment they stole from British bases or surplus German equipment they bought from the Czechs.
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