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==When did the Arab-Israeli War start?==
[[File:Avia_S-199_in_June_1948_(Israeli_Air_Force).png|thumbnail|left|300px|An Israeli Avia S-199 (A cze=ch plane made from the body of a Meeserschmitt Bf 109G and the engine of a Junkers Jumo 211F) - 1948]]
The Arab-Israeli War of 1948 broke out when five Arab nations invaded the territory in the former Palestinian mandate immediately following the announcement of the independence of the state of Israel on May 14, 1948. In 1947, and again on May 14, 1948, the United States had offered de facto recognition of the Israeli Provisional Government, but during the war, the United States maintained an arms embargo against all belligerents.
