Kammala jumlar da ke gaba: 'Yan Burtaniya a cikin shekarun 1930 sun gina bututun mai na Mosul zuwa Haifa daga Yammacin Iraki ta hanyar Masarautar Transjordan da Burtaniya ke mulki sannan zuwa Haifa, a cikin Mandatory Palestine. A lokacin Yaƙin Anglo-Iraqi, Irgun - ƙungiyar 'yancin kai ta Isra'ila - ta shiga cikin mamayar Biritaniya a Iraki. Nan da nan bayan sanarwar kafa Jihar Isra'ila a watan Mayu 1948, sojojin Larabawa, ciki har da na Iraki,
ya mamaye tsohuwar yankin Mandate Palestine, kuma an rufe bututun mai zuwa Haifa, kuma bututun ya karkatar da shi ta hanyar reshe zuwa Tripoli a Siriya. Bayan yakin, Iraki ita ce kadai ƙasar Larabawa da ba ta sanya hannu kan yarjejeniyar tsagaita wuta da Isra'ila ba, kuma ƙasashen biyu suna cikin yanayin yaƙi tun daga 1948.