It's April 18, 2024, 07:50:46 PM
At the Cairo summit, where the Israeli state was set out, Arab leaders were offered half of modern Israel as a Palestinian state; they rejected it, and invaded the joint Israeli/Palestinian lands. This is what is termed as the 1948 War of Independence. The Israelis and Palestinians repulsed the attack, but due to the concurrence of several high ranking Palestinians with the Arab leader, no state was formed. After Kadesh in 1956, where Israelis attempted to recapture the property of the British Empire at Suez, the first Jihad was called. In 1967, the Six Day War happened, Israel coming out easily on top. This is where the Golan Heights and Gaza Strip were seized for strategic reasons, and the West Bank for religious and political reasons. in 1973, the Yom Kippur War ended in an Israeli victory, and shortly afterwards, the First Jihad ended. Recently, various hard line Arab and Pathan/Pakar states have called for a Second Jihad, and Iraq and Palestine have declared official Jihad.Meanwhile, a further Israeli grievance is the Syrian presence in Lebanon. To this end, they have several times, most notably in the early '80s and '90s, sent forces in to throw Syria out. They have been aided in this by an extremist "Christian" group called the Phalanx. Due to this, the Syrians have further cracked down on the Christian enclaves (Eden and Yahweh Arda being the largest), leaving many Christians and Lebanese Muslims dissatisfied with the Arab world. This has led to the Lebanese Civil War, which has served as a front for Likud to insult Syria and its allies for being dictatorships.