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1948 war
Israel delclared independence. Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, & Iraq attacked Israel. Irael gained the gaza strip and jordan gained the west bank and East jerusalem. Hundreds of thousands of palestinians and jews became refugees. -
six day war or the 1967 war
egypt blockaded israel. Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, syria, & Iraq moved troops to israel's borders and made threatning statements. Israel launched a preemptive strike. -
settlement construction begins
Israel governments approved building settlements in sinai , faza, & the west bank. this was to security outpost and to prevent attacks -
Attrition Battles
Iraq gained land from egypt, Jordan and Syria. Arab nations declared to make peace with Israel. Egypt began small attacks against israel just like the PLO did it to different countries. Black September¨ came when Jerusalem army attacked PLO. This ended in 1970 -
The October War or Yom Kippur War
Egypt and Syria attacked Israel on Yom Kippur. Israel was able to push back the attack. This war reinforced the startegic importance of the buffer zones gained in 1967. Israel retained terrirtories captured in 1967. -
Egypt and Israel Sign a Peace Agreement
Egypt entered a peace treaty with Israel President of Egypt realized war with Israel was negative part for Egypt. Israel returned Egypt all of the Sinai captured during 1967 war. Israel's ¨land for peace¨ policy -
The 1982 Lebanon War
PLO units attacked northern Israel, Israel attacks PLO militants in Lebanon this starts the first Lebanon war. This drew Israel in the Lebanese civil war, Israel withdrew most of Lebanon in June 1985, 2nd war of Lebanon occured in 2006 -
The First Intifada
Palestinians in Gaza Strip and the Wesr Bank attacked Israel's with PLO advance weapons. Suicide attack, against civilians began, Israeli armies did not know how to fight these attacks. -
The Oslo Accords
A set of agreements where Israel and the PLO signed declaration of principles, creation of Palestinian authority anf Israel withdrew military presence from Gaza Strip. -
Israel and Jordan sign a Peace Treaty
United States led a difficult but successful diplomatic process to help Jordan and Israel to achieve peace. In 1994 Jordan became the second Arab country to recognize Israels trade, tourism, etc. This increased in both countries -
The Camp David Summit
Bill Clinton brought Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat to DC in July 2000. This was the first major attempt to negotiate final status agreement between Israel and the Palestinian. The goal of the summit was for two states living side by side in peace. but this did not happen and further conflict ensued. -
The Second Intifada
Israel general Ariel Sharon visited the jewish temple which lead people to believe was provocative and that it began riots. This caused the Second Intifada causing bloodshe and suffering on both sides. On the subject of this event ending some say it ended and others say it hasn't. -
Arab Peace Initiative Is Proposed
Crown Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia proposed peace initiative that was endorsed by all members of the Arabian league, Israel has welcomed the proposal but doesn't accept all its demands Israel leaders met with representatives of Arab leagues to discuss proposal. -
Arab peace initiative is proposed
Crown prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia prposed a peace initiative that was endorsed by all members of the arabian legue.Isreal has welcomed the proposal but doesn't accept all it's demands. Israel leaders met with the representatives of Arab Legue to discuss the proposal. -
Israel Begins Constructing the West Bank Barrier
Israel decided to build a secuirty barrier that would seperate it's citizens from terrorist groups. Has reduced the number of suicide bombings in Israel but has been criticized for dividing Palestininians from their land/work. -
Israel begins constructing the West Bank Barrier
Israel Began to cuild a secuirty barrier that would seperate it's citizens from terrorist groups. Terrorism has reduced the number of suicide bombings in Israel but has been critized for dvingg Palestinians from ther land and from the places they work -
the roadmap for peace is proposed
the roadmap for peace is a plan for peace that was proposed. It was divided into 3 phases but it never passed the first. Hamas followed in 2006. Negotiations between israel and palestine authority became possible again -
Israel disengages from Gaza
Prime Ministr Ariel Sharon moved ahead with this policy. Tjis was a physical seperation of Israel from Palestinian territories. Israel decide to remove itself from thi territory so that Palestine could govern itself. Since Israel removed itself rockets fired by terrorist has increased -
Hamas is elected
Palestinians elected Hamas members to the Palesinian Authority's legislature over the PLO's. Hamamas called for the destruction of Israel and the killing of jews -
The 2006 Lebanon War
Hezbollah is based on Lebonan and is a radical islamic organization comitted to destroying Israel. In an attemp to prevent it, Israel damaged Lebanon's transportion. -
The battle of Gaza
Hamas militants attacked Fatah members throughout Gaza. There are in effect to Palestinian governments . Hamas controls Gaza and the Palestinian Authority controls The West Bank -
The Gaza War
israel attacked Hamas targets in gaza in order to stop rocket attacks in southern Israel and to disrupt terrorist infrastructure and weapon smuggling. Gazas buildings and economy was heavily damaged because Hamas launched attacks from urban areas -
Gaza Flotilla Incident
Because hamas seized controlp from the Palestinian authority, Israel and egypt began a blockade of Gaza. All goods had to be inspected before entering Gaza to prevent Hamas from smuggling weapons.. Six ships set set to break the blockade. The turkish ships refused to dock in an israel port instead of Gaza.Isrelis borded the ships and were attacked. Turkey demanded anapology from Israel. -
The Arab Spring
Arab states began to protest against autocratic and oppresive governments. protest spread to tunisia across the Arab world. The tunisian president left the country. the Egyptian presient resigned. These kinds of protest have also occured in other countries like Yemen, omon, Morocco etc.
