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The British mandate of Palestine was terminated after WW II after which the UN partitioned the area between a Jewish and the Arab states. The Arab states did not accept the partition and attacked the designated Jewish state which was formally established in May 1944. Israel defeated the attacking Arab armies and a period of constant tension between Israel and its neighbors followed punctuated by various periods of war and cease fires. During the period of armed hostilities Israel acquired the Golan Heights from Syria, the Sinai desert from Egypt and the West Bank from Jordan. In April 1982 Israel withdrew from the Sinai, and in October 1994 with the signing of a peace treaty Israel and Jordan resolved a number of outstanding issues. An Israeli incursion into southern Lebanon in 1982 was resolved by Israel's withdrawal from that occupied area in May 2000. Continued violence in the Palestinian areas has prevented any arrangement or progress toward permanent status in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza strip. Israel's multiparty parliamentary democracy resulted in periodic changes of the Israeli government between the left leaning and the right oriented political coalitions. This, combined with the sharp differences of point of view as to the direction of external and internal politics and economics, created a difficult condition for the government to arrive at cohesive consensus based decisions. (en-US)
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http://www.cia.gov/cia.publications/factbook/geos/is.html 12/9/2003.