ARAB-ISRAELI WAR Synonyms

• an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)

• opposition between two simultaneous but incompatible feelings

• a hostile meeting of opposing military forces in the course of a war

• a state of opposition between persons or ideas or interests

• an incompatibility of dates or events

• opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces (especially an opposition that motivates the development of the plot)

• a disagreement or argument about something important

• be in conflict

• go against, as of rules and laws

• fighting; acts of overt warfare

• an energetic attempt to achieve something

• an open clash between two opposing groups (or individuals)

• strenuous effort

• make a strenuous or labored effort

• to exert strenuous effort against opposition

• climb awkwardly, as if by scrambling

• be engaged in a fight; carry on a fight

• the waging of armed conflict against an enemy

• a legal state created by a declaration of war and ended by official declaration during which the international rules of war apply

• an active struggle between competing entities

• a concerted campaign to end something that is injurious

• make or wage war

• the waging of armed conflict against an enemy

• an active struggle between competing entities

• tension between Arabs and Israeli erupted into a brief war in June 1967; Israel emerged as a major power in the Middle East

• Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in October 1973 (on Yom Kippur); Israel counterattacked and drove the Syrians back and crossed the Suez Canal into Egypt