israel palestanian conflict

By osnapitzabi

  • THE BALFOUR DECLARATION

    the British Foreign Minister Arthur Balfour committed Britain to work towards “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people,” in a letter to leading Zionist Lord Rothschild.

  • the end of the World War I

    Britain occupied the region at the end of the World War I in 1918 and was assigned as the mandatory power by the League of Nations

  • UN Partition Plan

    33 countries of the UN General Assembly voted for partition, 13 voted against and 10 abstained. This led to the creation of Israel

  • Establishment of Israel

    The State of Israel, the first Jewish state for nearly 2,000 years, was proclaimed. in Tel Aviv. The declaration came into effect the following day as the last British troops withdrew

  • Establishment of Israel

    five Arab armies from Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq immediately invaded Israel but were repulsed, and the Israeli army crushed pockets of resistance. Armistices established Israel's borders on the frontier of most of the earlier British Mandate Palestine

  • Formation of the PLO

    the Palestinians created a genuinely independent organization when Yasser Arafat took over the chairmanship of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) in 1969. His Fatah organization was gaining notoriety with its armed operations against Israel

  • The Six-Day War

    The war lasted only six days. Israel captured the Sinai and the Gaza Strip from Egypt, the Golan Heights from Syria and the West Bank from Jordan including East Jerusalem.

  • The Munich Olympics

    Members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually killed by the Palestinian group Black

  • The Yom Kippur War,1973

    For many Israelis the 1973 war reinforced the strategic importance of buffer zones occupied in 1967. The heartland of Israel would have been overrun had it not been for the buffer zones of the West Bank, the Golan

  • Arafat Returns

    Many critics of the peace process were silenced on 1 July as jubilant crowds lined the streets of Gaza to cheer Yasser Arafat on his triumphal return to Palestinian territory.
    The returning Palestinian Liberation Army deployed in areas vacated by Israeli troops and Arafat became head of the new Palestinian National Authority (PA) in the autonomous areas. He was elected president of the Authority in January 1996

  • Arafat Dies

    Yasser Arafat, the champion of Palestinian statehood he died on 11 th novmeber 2004 at the age 75 in a military hospital in France.

  • New President

    The US, Israel and several European countries cut off aid to the Palestinians as the Islamist movement rejects Israel's right to exist