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Ezekiel 11:17 (NIV84)17 “Therefore say: ‘This is what the Sovereign LORD says: I will gather you
from the nations and bring you back from the countries where you have been scattered, and I will
give you back the land of Israel again.’

The very next day, May 15, 1948, Israel’s “War of Independence” began as six Arab/neighbor states
attacked the newborn nation of Israel with the purpose of annihilating it.

Map: Six nations that attacked Israel in her War of Independence (Jewish Virtual Library

During the third Arab-Israeli conflict—the Six-Day War of 1967—Israel again greatly increased its
borders, capturing from Jordan, Egypt, and Syria the Old City of Jerusalem, the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza
Strip, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights. In 1979, Israel and Egypt signed an historic peace
agreement in which Israel returned the Sinai in exchange for Egyptian recognition and peace. Israel and
the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) signed a major peace accord in 1993, which envisioned the
gradual implementation of Palestinian self-government in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The Israeli-
Palestinian peace process moved slowly, however, and in 2000 major fighting between Israelis and
Palestinians resumed in Israel and the occupied territories.

Ezek. 36:8-12 Thus said the Lord God: ...you, O mountains of Israel, shall yield your produce and
bear your fruit for My people Israel, for their return is near. For I will care for you: I will turn to you,
and you shall be tilled and sown. I will settle a large population on you, the whole House of Israel;

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