Coalition Warfare : Arab-Israel Wars

COALITION WARFARE: ARAB ISRAEL WARS

Introduction
1. After the WW II, major colonial powers like Great Britain, France, Netherlands etc which were devastated by the war, lost their control over their colonies and other occupied territories. British, while departing occupied Palestine in 1948 (which they took from Ottoman Empire in 1918) left behind a new Jewish state i.e. Israel. The creation of Israel was not accepted by the local politicians as well as the neighboring Arab states. When all the political efforts were fruitless to stop the creation of Israel, the Arab states decided to form a coalition to attack Israel and replace it with the state of Palestine (majority of Palestinians were Muslims with a sizeable populations of Christians) as they could not tolerate a Jewish state in that region because of conflicting ideology.

The Coalition
2. The following countries/forces formed a coalition against Israel:
(a) Palestinian militia forces
(b) Egypt
(c) ...