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| 1944 |
| | | Ibn Saud and his US partners set up ARAMCO, the Arabia-American Oil Company | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Syria becomes fully independent with the withdrawal of French forces | |
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| 1946 |
| | | Irgun terrorists detonate a bomb in the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, killing 91 people | |
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| 1947 |
| | | Muslims proclaim an independent state in west Kashmir, defying the wishes of the maharaja | |
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| 1947 |
| | | The UN puts forward a plan for the partition of Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states | |
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| c. 1947 |
| | | An Arab boy, herding goats in the Qumran desert, finds the first of the Dead Sea Scrolls | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Israel declares its independence as a new Jewish state, with David Ben-Gurion as prime minister | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Six Arab states attack Israel in support of the Palestinians, starting the first Arab-Israeli war | |
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| 1948 |
| | | 700,000 Palestinian Arabs flee from their homes in Israel and become refugees | |
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| 1948 |
| | | The UN mediator in Palestine, Folke Bernadotte, proposes a peace plan involving the partition of Palestine | |
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