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The term that describes the nationalist movement that sought tocreate a nation-state for the Jewish people is ZIONISM.
In Israel, the war is known as War of Independence or War of Liberation, because the modern State of Israel originated in the Yishuv (the pre-state Jewish community in Palestine) declaring its independence from the British Imperial Mandate in 1948.uring the 1947â48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine and the 1948 ArabâIsraeli War that followed, around 700,000 Palestinian Arabs fled or were expelled. In 1951, the UN Conciliation Commission for Palestine estimated that the number of Palestinian refugees displaced from Israel was 711,000.