of all the countries that have come into existence in the last century.

No country's birth certificate is more legitimate than that of Israel.

One reason is that many of the men who founded the country, theodore Herzl, Zeb-Jabatinski,

David Ben-Gurion, and Ahmbegin, Yisgak-Shameer, were either lawyers or had legal training.

They were obsessed with making it legal.

Unlike almost every other country, lawyers, not generals, were the midwives of Israel's

birth or more accurately rebirth since it had existed as an independent country twice

before in history.

Step by legal step, Israel moved legally toward nationhood from the Balfour Declaration

in 1917 to the San Remo Agreement in 1920 to the League of Nations Resolution in 1922 to

the Anglo-American Convention on Palestine in 1924 to the partition of land ordained by

the United Nations in 1947 into a nation state for the Jewish people and in Arab state.

Yet immediately upon its lawful establishment in 1948, as the nation state of the Jewish

people, Israel was illegally attacked by all the surrounding Arab states, as well as my

elements of the local Arab population.

In defending its right to exist during that war, Israel lost 1% of its population, including

many civilians and Holocaust survivors.

It also lost some of the land assigned to it by the United Nations.

It captured other land from the aggressors that was originally assigned to the Arab state.

The end result of that war against Israel was an armistice line that prevailed until 1967

when Israel was once again attacked by Jordan during Israel's war with the Egyptian Syria.

Between 1948 and 1967, despite the armistice, Arab terrorists continued to infiltrate Israeli

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