Israel is at war with which Arab countries?

Answer 1

Since there are a number of different Arab-Israeli Wars (wars between Israel and its neighbors) and there are different belligerents in each of them. The Arab countries most often involved have been Egypt, Syria, and Jordan. See the Table Below for more information.

Note: Every Arab-Israeli War involves Israel, although in the Persian Gulf War of 1991 Israel did not retaliate when attacked.

Note 2: Palestine can refer to Palestinian Militias, the PLO/Hamas, and the Palestinian Authority.

This list is not exhaustive.

Years of War Israeli Name Arab Name Egypt Iraq Jordan Lebanon Palestine Saudi Arabia Syria USSR 1947-1949 War of Independence An-Nakba (Catastrophe) YES YES YES YES YES YES YES NO 1956 Suez Crisis / Sinai Campaign Tripartite War of Aggression YES NO NO NO YES NO NO NO 1967 Six-Day War Six-Day War / An-Naksa (Setback) YES YES YES NO NO NO YES NO 1967-1970 War of Attrition War of Attrition YES NO YES NO YES NO YES YES 1973 Yom Kippur War Ramadan War / October War YES YES YES NO NO NO YES NO 1980-1982 Lebanon War Lebanese Civil War NO NO NO YES YES NO YES NO 1991 Persian Gulf War Persian Gulf War YES (but against Iraq) YES NO NO NO YES (but against Iraq) YES (but against Iraq) DNE 2006 War on Hezbollah Israeli Invasion of Lebanon NO NO NO YES NO NO YES DNE 2008-2009 Operation Cast Lead Invasion of Gaza NO NO NO NO YES (Gaza Only) NO NO DNE 2012 Operation Pillar of Defense Operation Blue Sky NO NO NO NO YES (Gaza Only) NO NO DNE

Answer 2

Palestine.

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"Palestine" may well be the objective of the aspirations of great masses of people,

and it may well be inextricably linked in their minds with the great war to eliminate the

Zionist entity. But at the present time (late 2010), there is no internationally recognized

nation of that name, no diplomatic relations that link it with any other nation, no currency,

no economy, no constitution, no government, no borders, and no war. Several of Israel's

neighboring countries, with the notable exceptions of Egypt and Jordan, maintain an

official, formal state of war with Israel, and Hamas and Hizbollah actively proclaim their

hostile intentions toward it. But the active military conflicts have been few and short-lived,

consisting primarily of low-grade, long distance, diffuse and provocative attacks against

civilian targets in Israel, followed by occasional intense but brief mop-up operations

on Israel's part to dismantle the capacity for more of the same. There has been no

mutual confrontation of military forces, and no transfer of territory (other than the

complete evacuation of Israelis from Gaza and its handover to the PLO) in several

years. The most recent flare-up that had all the appearances of military action had to

be the conquest of Gaza, and the defeat and expulsion of Fatah, by Hamas.