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British mandate for palestine
Britain was given the Palestine Mandate on land comprising modern day Israel, the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Jordan. -
UN PartitionPlan
In 1947, a midst growing tensions between Arabs, Jews
,and the British, Britain announced its plan to pull out of the region and turned the question of sovereignty over to the United Nations. -
six-Day War /1967 Arab-Israeli
Egypt closed the international water way, the Straits of Tiran, to all Israeli shipping, an act of war in international law. War
These actions were accompanied by Arab leaders statements about their intent to destroy Israel. -
Camp David Acoords
Menachem Begin of Israel and Anwar alSadat of Egypt signed agreements in Camp David. The American-sponsored talks paved the way to the peace treaty signed in 1979 -
Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty
For its part, Israel returned to Egypt all of the Sinai that had been captured during the 1967 war and removed Jewish families from the homes they had established there. This agreement became a model for Israel’s “land for peace” policy.
