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Well, I bolded everything that is definitely incorrect or significantly inaccurate to get you started. Also, starting your story perhaps 20 years earlier might give you a better picture of the situation. I know this is kind of a dick post on my part, but I guarentee that you are far, far away from a balanced account of the history of this conflict.

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The history is pretty straight foward. The UN partitioned the country in 1948. The side that was mostly Jewish residents was made into Isreal, and the side that most mostly Arabs was made into Palestine. The arabs didn't except this, and about 7 countries invaded Isreal. Isreal defeated them, and slightly expanded its borders. The land that was suppose to be Palestine was conquered by Jordan and Eqypt.

There were smaller conflicts until 1967 when there was a major war between Isreal and its neighbors. The terms of the earlier UN treaty were broken by Eqypt who allied itself with Syria and Jordan who all built up large military forces to invade Isreal. The goal was [to] the same as it was in 1948 and other times, kill every Jew in Isreal. Once Eqypt moved troops into what was suppose to be the nuetral Sinai Isreal launched a devestating pre-emptive attack. Despite being vastly outnumbered [note: Israel had significant military superiority over 3 adversaries] they completely devestated the Arab invaders and in the process of driving them back took over the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Golan Hieghts. This has roughly been the borders since then, even after an addition major war in 1973 that ended in a draw.

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