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ISRAELI INDEPENDENCE, 1948 1933 – 1945 After killing 6,000,000 children of Abraham and boasting that his Third Reich would last 1,000 years, Hitler’s kingdom fell after only twelve years. Twelve is the number for Israel, the nation that will really rule for 1,000 years—with a Jewish King! A little over three years after Hitler’s defeat and suicide, the Jews would have a totally independent nation for the first time since 606 B.C. Later, Germany was divided by the Berlin Wall, an appropriate answer to the ghetto walls that Hitler had previously built for the Jews. The decree for the wall was passed by the East German Volkskammer on the twelfth of August, 1961. 1948 After Israel won her independence in May, 1948, she was “welcomed” to the region by her Arab neighbors with attacks from all sides, just as they had promised before the May 14th deadline. The United Nations knew this would happen and did nothing to stop it. In fact, as Mid-East Analyst and Commentator Emmanuel Winston points out, the UN had hoped that the Arab nations would annihilate the newly formed State of Israel: "All problems with the Jews would be quickly settled by the 7 invading Arab armies. There would, of course, be no opportunity for rescue—except for a possible token late arrival of some troops from England, France, or America. They would find a handful of Jews left whom they would rescue with great fanfare and self congratulations. The Arab-Muslims would have “danced in the blood” of the Jews and reclaimed their trampled manhood—just as they claimed they would do before the 1947 UN vote enabling the State of Israel to be born." But God had other plans. Winston continues: "When the 7 Arab-Muslim armies of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, Yemen, and Saudi Arabia attacked as promised on May 15, 1948, the untrained Jewish remnants from the graveyards of Europe fought back with junk equipment and miraculously beat the combined, vaunted Arab-Muslim armies who were stopped and chased across the deserts. However, the Armistice Lines left the Egyptians in occupation of the Gaza Strip and Jordan occupying Judea and Samaria (which they now called the ‘West Bank’) as well as a large part of Jerusalem." John Westwood, in his work The History of the Middle East Wars, sums up the result of Israel’s first modern war: "The net result of the war of 1948, started by the Arabs to stifle Israel at birth, was a quite unexpected enlargement and strengthening of the new Jewish state. The war had not only witnessed the creation of the Israel Defense Force, but the IDF’s increasing battleworthiness had ensured that the frontiers of Israel, temporary though they might be, had advanced well beyond the limits envisaged in the UN partition plan whose implementation had first provoked the Arab assault." Had the UN known that Israel was to win this war, it probably would have never given her a starting chance as a nation. So, in reality, God handed a defeat to both the Arab nations and the UN. The Arabs explained away their shameful defeat by claiming that American forces helped the Jews, but it was GOD who helped the Jews, the God of Genesis 12:1-3.