RETRO-ISRAEL-PALESTINE-ARAB REVOLT

A picture released 27 October 1938 during the British Mandate in Palestine shows a street scene in Jericho during the Arab Revolt period in Palestine. The Arab Revolt which lasted from 1936 to 1939 was an uprising against the British authority of Palestinians opposed to the growing immigration of European Jews and to the establishment in Palestine of a National home for the Jewish people as stated in the Balfour Declaration of 1917. On November 29, 1947, the United Nations' General Assembly voted resolution 181 on the partition of Palestine in two states, one Jewish and one Arab. Jerusalem was to remain under international control. The State of Israel was proclamed on 14 May 1948 by the Jewish National Council and was recognized by the United States and the Soviet Union 15 and 17 May the same year. Arab States of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, Egypt and Iraq crossed the borders from north, east and south with their regular armies 15 May 1948. Agreements signed in 1949 between Israel and the Arab States ended the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, and established the armistice lines between Israel and the West Bank, also known as the Green Line, until the 1967 Six-Day War. (Photo by FRANCE PRESSE VOIR / AFP) (Photo by -/FRANCE PRESSE VOIR/AFP via Getty Images)