When did the Arab countries that attacked the Jews in Palestine
in 1948 gain independence? Iraq = 1932, Syria = 1946, Lebanon= 1946, Jordan =1946, Egypt =1922 (the British controlled Egypt until 1955). According to Wikipedia, the maximum number of troops the Jews had fighting in 1948 war = 117,500 and all the Arab armies combined = 63,500! And then, only 2 Arab armies in 1973 did the unexpected: they went to Palestine and they knocked down the Jews there when they least expected it.