This was the point of Obama's Passover and Israel Independence Day messages.

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Israel's Independence Day has become a day of public grief in much of the Arab sector.

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Those activities include marking Israel's Independence Day as a day of mourning.

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This was the view that propelled Washington's foreign policy establishment to oppose Israel's independence 60 years ago and has caused them to continue to oppose accepting Israel as an ally to this day.

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If you add the Palestinian revolt of 1936-39 and the war between Palestinian villagers and Jewish settlers (1947-48) to Israel's War of Independence (1948-49), the Suez War (1956), the Six Day War (1967), the Yom Kippur-Ramadan War (1973), the Lebanon War (1982) and the Palestinian intifadah (1987-93, approximately), the world has seen one major Arab-Israeli war roughly every eight years.

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