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From your link: “The Armistice Agreements brought the fighting of the War of Independence to an end, but did not actually end the war between Israel and its Arab neighbors. The Arab states didn't recognize Israel and considered the armistice as only a pause. The Arab regimes considered the existence of Israel in their midst to be unacceptable and they continued to work toward Israel's destruction. They created and sustained a total boycott of Israel in all spheres of political and economic activity. They continued to support armed aggression against Israel, although not again by formal armies until the Six Day War in 1967.

In the Armistice Agreements, the ceasefire lines are defined as follows:
•5(2). In no sense are the ceasefire lines to be interpreted as political or territorial borders and their delineation in no way affects the rights, demands or positions of any of the parties to the ceasefire agreements regarding the final disposition of the Palestine question.
•5(3). The fundamental objective of the ceasefire lines is to serve as a line beyond which the armed forces of each of the parties will deploy.

Thus Israel has no “safe and recognized” borders under these agreements, and the ceasefire lines, as the above agreements signed in Rhodes in 1949 make clear, are unacceptable to the Arab countries. The November 1947 borders specified in the UN partition plan could have been the borders, but those borders were rejected by the Arabs at the time, and were not acceptable to Israel later since they proved indefensible against armies and porous to terrorists. Until the Israel-Egypt Peace Agreement of 1979 there was no change in the formal situation as of the 1949 Armistice.”

Remember that Trans-Jordan changed its name to Jordan and declared that the West Bank was part of the new entity Jordan. It gave Jordanian citizenship to all Arabs in that area, until the Palestinians tried to take over Jordan.

Syria shelled the Jews settlers continually from 1948 until 1967, when Israel ceased the shelling after taking the Golan Heights.

So no peace has ever existed, except that between Israel and Jordan by treaty. Jordan gave up its claim to the West Bank. Remember there is the world of peace in Islam, which is all areas controlled by Islam, and the world of war in Islam, which to them is all other areas of the world not yet controlled by Islam.

I'm sorry to say that once Muslims gain any strength in any area, they go into a state of Jihad (open war), rather than a state of peaceful Jihad (quiet struggle).