which sought to divide the British Mandate of Palestine into Arab and Jewish states. On May 14, 1948, the State of Israel was created, sparking the first Arab-Israeli War. The war ended in 1949 ...
Ralph Bunche received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s work as a United Nations mediator in the Palestine conflict. He called himself 'an incurable optimist'. Bunche was the first ...
During this period, Palestine was characterised by a Jewish ... Surrounding Arab nations intervened in the conflict. During the 1948 Arab-Israeli War, Israeli forces emerged victorious, capturing ...
In this capacity, he succeeded in achieving an initial truce during the 1948 Arab–Israeli War and laid the groundwork for the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the ...
Dreams on a Pillow takes place during the Nakba, a central occurrence in the 1948 Palestine War that saw around 700,000 Palestinians violently displaced from and dispossessed of their lands and ...