:::::No More Mr Nice Guy - 1) Call AnonMoos to order and there'll be no lines.  Nothing he has contributed belongs in this page.. 
 :::::2)I just gave a secondary source, per the guidelines, of additional information pertinent to the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, relative to the legal extent of territory.  Under what guideline is additional information prohibited? 
 :::::3)The 'obscure' letter was from the Agent of the Provisional Government of Israel to the President of the United States. It is referenced in about 30 books That meet the criteria. 
 :::::4)That the borders were deliberately left out of the DoI only tells us they didn't want to mention them. 

 ::::: I suggest the changes in the first part of Background, adding additional material relative to the legal extent of territories in the 1948 Arab–Israeli War be made   "..on May 14th 1948 the state of Israel was declared as an independent republic within frontiers approved by the General Assembly of the United Nations in its Resolution of November 29, 1947, with a provisional government taking charge one minute after( newcite) the termination of the Mandate on May 15th (existing cite)"