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ZIONISM
Goal to get jews to have own land. -
McMahon Hussein Correspondence
promise of indipendence promise was not kept -
Balfour Declaration
promise to create jewish a homeland of israel -
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British Mandate for palestine
divided lands between britian and french [ WW1 -
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The Holocaust and worl war 2
Nazis persecuted jews resulting in a 6 million jew murders -
UN Partition Plan
in november 29 1947 UN general assembly voted to partition palestine into an arab state and a jewish state -
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1948 war
Independence of the new state of israel on may 14 1948 following day new and was attaked ,but israel still won and obtained more land from UN -
Establishment of the PLO
PLO palestine liberation organization formed with aim of destroying israel creating a palestinian state in its place -
Six day war
arabs wanted to destroy israel war between egypt israel syria jordan and iraq israel won and captured lands -
settlement construction begins
The israeli goverment approved the building of settlements in the sinai penninsula gaza strip and west bank the first settlements were indicated to act as security out posts -
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Khattoum resolution
1967 war israel gained land from egypt jordan and syria egypt began small scale attacks against egypt eight arab heads of state met in khartoum august 29 september i 1967 and adopted the 3 NOs policy no peace with israel no recognition of israel and no negotiations with israel -
Yom Kippur War 1973 arab israeli war
egypt and syria attacked israel on Yom Kippur the holiest day of the jewish year even after the arab countries attacked israelis where able to push them back -
camp david accords
menachem begin of israel and anwar al sadat of egypt signed agreements in camp davis which lead to a peace treaty in 1979 -
egypt israel peace treaty
as aresult of intense diplomatic efforts by the US egypt became the first country to recognize and enter into a peace treaty with israel israel returned all of eypts land captured during the 1967 war -
1982 Lebannon war first lebanon war
PLO units in southern lebanon increasingly attacked communities in northern israel in response israel launched an attack on PLO militants stationed in lebanon known as the 1982 lebanon war israel withdrew from most of lebanon in june 1985 -
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first intifada
palestinians attacked israelis with improvised weopons and firearms supplied by the PLO which organized much of the uprising This conflict continued until the oslo accords were signed in 1993 -
osolo accords
the osolo accords were a set of agreements that began in 1993 when israel and the PLO signed a declaration of principles DOP
osolo accords left israel to defend itself and its citizens including those in territories The osolo accords were intended to be an agreement that would lead to a permanent settlement with israel giving up land in return for peace and security -
israel jordan peace treaty
as with the peace treaty between egypt and israel the US led a difficult but succesful diplomatic process to help jordan and israel achieve peace in 1994 jordan became the second arab country to recognize israel -
Camp David Summit
Israeli Prime minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian president Yasser Arafat attempt to negotiate agrrement between israel and the palestinians -
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Second Infantida
israeli opposition leader ariel sharon viseted the jewish temple mount Palestinians rioted and threw rocks onto jewish worshippers at the western hall -
Israel begins constructing west ank security barriers
the barriers have been reducing the number of suicide bombings in israel coming from the gaza strip and west bank -
arab peace initiative is proposed
in march 2002 during the beirut summit of the arab league crown prince abdullah of saudi arabia proposed a peace initiative that was endorsed by all members of the arab league the proposal offered israel peace in return of the israeli withdrawal from all territories captured in the 1967 war -
Roadmap for peace is proposed
the roadmap for peace known as the roadmap is a plan for peace that was proposed in 2003 by the quartet the US russia the european union and the UN the road map
