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A combined Arab forced invaded the new state, and in the first few weeks the Israelis retreated before the combined armies of Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, and Iraq.

The U.S. and the USSR, working through the UN, brought about a month long truce. During this time, the Israelis purchase a large amount of heavy weapons from communist Czechoslovakia.