Original sentence: Promising to annihilate the new Jewish state (though their actual motivation was more complex), the armies of six Arab nations attacked the fledgling state
Edited sentence: A US embargo on arms trade in area halted any chances of the Israelis getting much needed ammunition and weapondry from the West.Finally arms began to trickle in, mostly from Czechoslovakia.In total it left the Arabs with significantly less land than if they had accepted the partition.Kibbutzim (communal farms) that had been the backbone of Yishuv (Jewish Community) lay in tatters.Nevertheless they flew against Egyptian and British RAF planes, managing to shoot down 4 of them.Promising to annihilate the new Jewish state (though their actual motivation was more complex), the armies of six Arab nations attacked the fledgling state less then 24 hours later.The Arabs in Trans Jordan and Iraq still continued to get shipments from the British.The Haganah was renamed IDF or Israeli Defense Forces and began to fight back.The IDF had no tanks, no cannons and only 9 dilapidated planes.The Israelis had 60,000 trained fighters, but only 18,900 were armed and fully prepared.The cost of lives for the Israelis stood at a little more than 6300 which was 1% of the population.The fields and farms that had been Israel’s biggest source of income were vrtually destroyed.The war debt accumulated to supply the IDF totaled more than $500 Million.This also halted economic growth and created food shortages.Those that were killed had mostly been the youth and young adults, the future of Israel, which caused even more untold loss.While the Israelis did win the war the cost was devastating