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Why did Israel win the 1948 war?<\/a><\/strong>
\nBy analysing a timeline of events and watching some multimedia clips, students are challenged to find three key reasons why the Israelis won, and to link them.<\/p>\n

Part of the new IGCSE Paper 1 Scheme of Work on the Arab-Israeli Conflict<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Why did Israel win the 1948 war? By analysing a timeline of events and watching some multimedia clips, students are challenged to find three key reasons why the Israelis won, and to link them. Part of the new IGCSE Paper 1 Scheme of Work on the Arab-Israeli Conflict<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,5],"tags":[1361,1362,396,1363],"class_list":["post-4816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20th-century","category-igcse-gcse-history","tag-1361","tag-israel","tag-war","tag-win"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4818,"url":"https:\/\/www.activehistory.co.uk\/updates\/key-stage\/igcse-gcse-history\/what-were-the-results-of-the-1948-war\/","url_meta":{"origin":4816,"position":0},"title":"What were the results of the 1948 war?","author":"Russel Tarr","date":"October 16, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"What were the results of the 1948 war? 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