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Why did Arab armies invade Israel in 1948?

They wanted to create one, large secular Arab nation.

They wanted to force Israel to accept the Palestinian state.

They wanted to establish an Islamist government in Palestine.

They wanted to reclaim the region for Palestinian Arabs.

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They wanted to reclaim the region for Palestinian Arabs

Step-by-step explanation:

Arab-Israeli wars, series of military conflicts between Israeli and various Arab forces, most notably in 1948–49,

The neighbouring Arab states pressured Abdullah into joining them in an "all-Arab military invasion" against the newly created State of Israel, that he used to restore his prestige in the Arab world, which had grown suspicious of his relatively good relationship with Western and Jewish leaders.

One of the most persistent myths surrounding the birth of the State of Israel is that in 1948 the newly-born state faced a monolithic and implacably hostile Arab coalition. This coalition was believed to be united behind one central aim: the destruction of the infant Jewish state. As there is no commonly accepted term for the liquidation of a state, Yehoshafat Harkabi, a leading Israeli student of the Arab-Israeli conflict, proposed calling it ‘politicide’

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