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1799
NAPOLEON OFFERS PALESTINE AS A HOMELAND TO JEWS -
1885
THE TERM “ZIONISM” IS FIRST COINED -
1908
PALESTINIAN WRITER NAJIB NASSAR PUBLISHES AL-KARMEL NEWSPAPER, OPPOSING ZIONIST COLONISATION -
1915
ZIONIST BRITISH CABINET MEMBER HERBERT SAMUEL WRITES THE FUTURE OF PALESTINE -
1916
SYKES-PICOT SECRET AGREEMENT IS SIGNED, DIVIDING THE MIDDLE EAST BETWEEN THE FRENCH AND BRITISH -
1922
THE LEAGUE OF NATIONS APPROVES THE BRITISH MANDATE FOR PALESTINE HELPING MAKE A HOMELAND -
1929
At the outbreak of World War II, both Palestinians and Zionists enlisted in large numbers -
1933
The Nazi assumption of power triggered a massive refugee crisis as German Jews went to find a safe place from persecution -
1933
German Jews felt the effects of more than 400 decrees and regulations that restricted all aspects of their public and private lives -
1936
minor Arab-Jewish clashes quickly flared into a widespread revolt -
1947
British Government Refers the Question of the Future of Palestine to the United Nations -
1948
The village was one of several attacked by Jewish forces in April in an attempt to clear the besieged roads leading to Jerusalem -
1948
Israel declared independence -
1949
ten days after the First Knesset was convened for its opening sitting in Jerusalem, Israel signed its first Armistice Agreement, with Egypt, on the island of Rhodes -
1956
The essential reality of Israeli-Arab relations during 1949-1956 was...unremitting