1948 Arab facts
While investigating facts about 1948 Arab, I found out little known, but curios details like:
Despite the ongoing Arab Boycott of Israel since 1948, Israel has achieved a higher GDP than all of the participants except for the oil rich Kuwait and Qatar, and the participants stand to lose $30 billion from not trading with Israel by 2020.
Since declaring its independence in 1948, Israel has been in conflict because of Jewish and Arab struggles. There have been civil wars and peace treaties, but the peace treaties do not hold for very long before violence erupts again.
In my opinion, it is useful to put together a list of the most interesting details from trusted sources that I've come across. Here are 12 of the best facts about 1948 Arab I managed to collect.
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Paul Reuben's (aka Pee Wee Herman) father, was one of the founding pilots of the Israeli Air Force during the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
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Israel purchased a bunch of field guns from Mexico in 1948 and used them in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War. Because of its Mexican origin, the gun was known in Israel as Cucaracha.
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"Palestinian" comes from Hebrew "Pelishtim" (Aegeans with no connection to Arabs), which appears in the bible hundreds of times but never in the Koran. Prior to 1948, the press commonly used the term "Palestinians" to refer to Jews living in the area of Israel, not to Arabs.
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In 1948 Arab-Israel war, American volunteers in the Israeli Air Force shot down and killed a number of British RAF pilots
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During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, the fate of the Christian Palestinians was similar to that of the Muslims, in term of expulsions, village destructions, and land confiscations.
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During the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, B-17 planes bought by the Jewish State from Czechoslovakia bombed Egypt on their way to Israel
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Palestinians and Arab Israelis observe "Nakba Day" ("day of catastrophe") yearly, commemorating the 700,000 Palestinians forced to leave their land after the 1948 Israeli declaration of independence, as well as the hundreds of Palestinian towns that were depopulated and destroyed
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U.K. intel encouraged Arab armies to invade Israel in 1948
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The father of the actor, Paul Reubens, best know for his character Pee-Wee Herman was a pilot for American and British forces during WW2. He was also one of the founders of the Israeli Air Force and it is argued that he helped turn around the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
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Pee-Wee Herman's dad was a volunteer pilot for the IAF in the Arab-Israeli War of 1948. He was shot down and didn't speak Hebrew, so shouted "Shabbos, Gefilte Fish" to identify himself as friendly to Israelis with drawn rifles
