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King Hussein’s Impossible Choice: Jordan’s Precarious Path to the Six-Day War

The Powder Keg of the Middle East In May 1967, as Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol grappled with escalating tensions, […]

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The Brink of War: Israel’s Tense Countdown to the Six-Day War

The Gathering Storm: Egypt’s Provocations and Israel’s Dilemma On what should have been a day of celebration during Israel’s Independence […]

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The Night That Changed the Middle East: Nasser’s Fateful Decision in May 1967

The Gathering Storm: Egypt on the Eve of War On the night of May 14, 1967, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel […]

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The Divided City: Jerusalem’s Fractured Identity After the First Arab-Israeli War

The Birth of a Divided Holy City When the first Arab-Israeli war concluded in 1949, Jerusalem emerged not as a […]

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The 1948 Arab-Israeli War: How 28 Days Changed the Middle East Forever

The Fragile Truce That Reshaped a Region Between June 11 and July 8, 1948, a 28-day ceasefire transformed the military […]

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The Altalena Affair: When Israel’s Founding Fathers Nearly Went to War

A Ship of Contention in the Birth of a Nation On June 20, 1948, the SS Altalena—a repurposed WWII landing […]

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The Struggle for Survival: Israel’s First Four Weeks of Independence in 1948

The Birth of a Nation Under Siege On May 14, 1948, David Ben-Gurion declared the establishment of the State of […]

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The Birth of Israel: The Dramatic Final Months of British Palestine (1948)

The Tinderbox of Palestine in Early 1948 By March 1948, the British Mandate of Palestine had become a powder keg […]

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The Covert Arms Race: How Jewish Underground Networks Secured Weapons for Israel’s Birth

The Impossible Arms Quest for a Stateless People In the turbulent years following World War II, as the dream of […]

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The $10 Mission: Golda Meir’s 1948 Fundraising Triumph That Saved Israel

A Desperate Journey in the Cold January Wind On January 19, 1948, a middle-aged woman stepped off a plane in […]

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The 1947 UN Partition Plan: A Pivotal Moment in the Birth of Israel

The Collapse of British Mandate and UN Intervention By 1947, the British government found itself overwhelmed by the escalating tensions […]

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How a Pencil-Drawn Line Redefined the Middle East: The Sykes-Picot Agreement and Its Lasting Legacy

The Great War and the Scramble for Ottoman Lands On December 16, 1915, in the hallowed halls of 10 Downing […]

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