In 1948, the first war between a newly established Jewish state and newly independent Arab countries broke out. In a sense, the battles were fought between a Zionist militia and seven regular armies led by conservative notables. The wars that followed, in 1956, 1967, and 1973, were fought between this same Jewish state and Arab countries whose notables and politicians had been overthrown and whose armies had seized power before nationalizing politics. Subsequently, since 2006, wars began to be waged, on their two Arab fronts, Lebanon and Palestine, by absolutely non-state Islamic militias.