what lands did israel gain in their 1938 war of independence?

Question

whoops i meant 1948

Answer 1

1948. And it wasn't a war of independence.
They gained all the lands they have now not including the occupied territories and settlements in lands they took over in subsequent wars like 1967 and 1973 like East Jerusalem. Other lands that are known now as the 'west bank' were part of the zionist desires but they were part of Jordan. Jordan has since given up on the west bank (they lost it in war)to help solve their problem of having more palestinians in Jordan than Jordanians.

All this land was a province of the Ottoman Empire which was broken up in 1918. The Ottomans sided with the Germans and Austro-Hungarians.The British held it for the league of nations. The war was against the British and their league of nations mandate. British foreign minister Balfour (around 1910) promised "Zionist" Jews a homeland in the bible lands. This was known as the "Balfour Declaration". After WW2 the Arabs were set on getting their own country from the newly formed United Nations once it was up and running. They fought against the Jewish immigrants arriving from Europe. The British tried to stop them. The Zionist jews used guerrilla (terrorist) tactics against the Brits and Arab nationalists and won. Western public opinion supported allowing them to go to these lands. We all know the result.

Answer 2

Israel won a war of self-defense in 1948, and another in 1967. In so doing, they regained parts of their ancient homeland: Judea, Samaria and Gaza.

All the territories the Israelis now possess are theirs by legal right -- the right conferred by the League of Nations Mandates Commission, when it carefully defined the territory that would be set aside, from the vast territories in the Middle East that had formerly been in the control of the Ottoman Turks as part of their empire, and which had been won by the Allies. An Arab State, a Kurdish State, and a Jewish state--were all promised. The Arabs got their state -- no, in the end, they got far more than their state but rather, in 2005, 22 members of the Arab League, the most richly endowed with natural resources of any states on earth, enjoying the fruits of the greatest transfer of wealth in human history.

The Kurds did not get their state, because by the time things had settled, Kamal Ataturk was driving a hard bargain and would not permit it. The Jews got the Mandate for Palestine set up for the express purpose of establishing the Jewish National Home, which would inexorably become, all parties realized, in time a Jewish state.

It did not seem wrong then, and does not seem wrong now, that the Jews should have a state of their own. They asked only for the right to have no barriers put up to their immigration, and no barriers put in the way of their buying land. That was it. That was the sum total of what they demanded. Until the 1948 war, when five Arab armies attacked, not a single dunam of Arab-owned land was appropriated. (And remember that nearly 90% of the land, in any case, remained the possession of the state or the ruling authority, as in the Mandatory period.)

No one should dare to write about this subject without having done the research on demography, land ownership, and law.

Answer 3

They did not gain much. The surrounding Arabs nations attacked with the intent to get rid of all Jews.
The Partition Plan the UN had established that was excepted by Israel and rejected by the Arabs is what the Israelis fought to hold on to in 1948.

When all was over--they did gain a bit more land west of the Jordan River and Jerusalem was divided with Jordan controlling the Old City and its holy sites.

For perspective--keep in mind that there are 22 Arab countries --23 with Iran (persians).
Arab lands are 640 times the size of Israel--they are 99 and ahalf % of the entire middle east while Israel is one half of 1%.

This continued conflict is not about land--it is about destroying an entire race of people (Jews).

The war of Independence was more to hold on to what was given in the Parition plan by the UN.

Answer 4

There was no 1938 war. Israel was formed in 1947 by the United Nations (no war). It fought a six days war in 1968, in which it gained the Gaza strip.

Answer 5

The War of Independence, this is what the 1948 war is called.
When 7 arab nations tried to invade Israel and destroy the Jewish settlements.

Here are several sites:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1948_Arab-Israeli_War

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/History/1948_War.html
http://www.adl.org/israel/advocacy/glossary/war_independence.asp