to be called ISRAEL. WE HEREBY DECLARE that as from the termination of the Mandate at midnight, this night of the 14th and 15th May, 1948, and until the setting up of the duly elected bodies of ...

Israel’s expansionist ambitions continue to drive the erasure of Palestine, raising the critical question: Can the US and ...

In objective terms, however, the creation of Israel was socially and politically ... on the unification of the working class. It wrote in 1948: The Fourth International rejects as utopian and ...

Israel has long denied the 1948 Nakba ethnic cleansing, even as it calls for carrying out a second Nakba today.

International law, historical grievances, and failed peace efforts keep Israel-Palestine trapped in unending conflict ...

Israel has experienced a tumultuous and often violent existence over its 60 years as a nation. Click on the links below to watch and read key events in its history since its creation in 1948.

In 1948, the state of Israel was proclaimed. This episode recounts how the US, later Israel's greatest ally, came close to stopping the creation of the new state. Made in 1998.