Political Science In The Arab-Israeli Conflict

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alition of Egypt, Syria, Transjordan, Iraq, Lebanon and Palestine went to war with the Jews. (Fraser, 1995) As the Arabs are poorly trained the Jewish side won the war and took a most of Palestine. In leaving their homes these became occupied by Jewish settlers. The Arab point of view is that they were forced from their homes while the Jewish view is that they left willingly. Regardless, this left approximately 450,000 to 600,000 Arabs without homes. (Gerner,1994) They formed temporary refugee camps both within former Palestine and inside the borders of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt. Those remaining in Israel became second class citizens. Consequently there grew a rise in Arab nationalism and in Egypt there was a military coup in which Colonel Nasser Hussein took control. From Egypt there were constant attacks made on Israel by the Arab Fedayeen military group who were preparing for war. When Nasser bought arms from Czechoslovakia, Britain and France stopped funding his rebuilding of the Suez Canal, an important sea link to Europe. Nasse...