Israel and Arab countries

By DevonSwaney

  • The UN plan to partition Palestine

    The UN plan to partition Palestine
    The United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was a proposal by the United Nations, which recommended a partition of Mandatory Palestine at the end of the British Mandate. On 29 November 1947

  • Israel declares independence

    Israel declares independence
    Israel Declares Independence. Rudi Weissenstein/Israel Ministry of Foreign AffairsDavid Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel, pronounces the Declaration of the State of Israel at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art on May 14, 1948.

  • The Arab/Israel war

    The Arab/Israel war
    The 1948 Arab–Israeli War, or the First Arab–Israeli War, was fought between the State of Israel and a military coalition of Arab states over the control of Palestine

  • The Suez crisis

    The Suez crisis
    The Suez Crisis, was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel, followed by the United Kingdom and France because Egypt closed the Suez canal

  • The Formation of the PLO

    The Formation of the PLO
    The Palestinian National Council convened in Jerusalem on 28 May 1964. Concluding this meeting the PLO was founded on 2 June 1964. Its stated goal was the liberation of Palestine" through armed struggle.

  • Six Days War

    Six Days War
    The Egyptian, Syrian and Jordanian armies were decisively defeated, and Israel captured the West Bank from Jordan, the Gaza Strip and the Sinai Peninsula from Egypt, and the Golan Heights from Syria. The 1967 war, which lasted only six days, established Israel as the dominant regional military power.

  • The Yom Kippur war

    The Yom Kippur war
    The Yom Kippur War, was a war fought by a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria against Israel from October 6 to 25, 1973.

  • The Lebanese war

    The Lebanese war
    This was was fought between Arab and the Israelis. It lasted from 1975 to 1990. An estimated 150,000 people were killed in this war. And more than 1 million, a quarter of the population, were displaced.

  • The Oslo Accords

    The Oslo Accords
    The Oslo Accords and the Arab-Israeli Peace Process. On September 13, 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization Negotiator Mahmoud Abbas signed a Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements, commonly referred to as the “Oslo Accord,” at the White House.