<P> The long - standing conflict between Arabs and Jews in the Mandatory Palestine region continued after 1945, with Britain and in an increasingly impossible situation as the mandate holder . The Balfour Declaration of 1917 calling for a homeland for the Jews was supported in 1947 by both the Soviet Union and the United States . Both countries promptly Recognize the independent state of Israel in 1948 . The Soviet Union later broke with Israel to support its Arab enemies . The region was more of an independent trouble zone rather than a playing field of the Cold War, and was not a precipitating factor in the Cold War . </P> <P> By 1953, Arab nationalism based in Egypt was a neutralizing force . The Soviet Union leaned increasingly toward Egypt . Ehe United States based its Cold War coalition primarily on the Baghdad Pact of 1955 which formed Central Treaty Organization (CENTO), that included Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, Turkey and the United Kingdom . </P> <P> While most historians trace its origins to the period immediately following World War II, others argue that it began with the October Revolution in Russia in 1917 when the Bolsheviks took power . In 1919 Lenin stated that his new state was surrounded by a "hostile capitalist encirclement", and he viewed diplomacy as a weapon that should be used in order to keep the Soviet Union's enemies divided . He began with a new Communist International ("Comintern"), based in Moscow, which was designed to plan for revolutionary upheavals abroad . It was ineffective--Communist uprisings all failed in Germany, Hungary and elsewhere . Historian Max Beloff argues that the Soviets saw "no prospect of permanent peace", with the 1922 Soviet Constitution proclaiming: </P> <Dl> <Dd> Since the time of the formation of the soviet republics, the states of the world have divided into two camps: the camp of capitalism and the camp of socialism . There - in the camp of capitalism - national enmity and inequality, colonial slavery, and chauvinism, national oppression and pogroms, imperialist brutalities and wars . Here - in the camp of socialism - mutual confidence and peace, national freedom and equality, a dwelling together in peace and the brotherly collaboration of peoples . </Dd> </Dl>

The dispute over is what historians identify as the beginning of the cold war
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