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1947 UN Partition
On November 29, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly voted 33 to 13 with 10 abstentions to partition western Palestine into two states -- one for the Jews, and the other for the Palestinian Arabs. Jerusalem, a holy city, was to become an international country under U.N. law. -
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Historical Timeline
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Declaration of Independence
On 14 May the Jewish community declared its independence as the state of Israel, and this was immediately recognized by the United States and Russia.
The Egyptian, Jordanian, Iraqi, Syrian and Lebanese forces 1uickly moved into the mainly Arab parts of the country. -
Israel and the 1948 War
Israel was attacked on the same day it gained its independence – May 14th. The armies of Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq attacked Israel. Though the attack on Israel was a surprise one, Israel was surprisingly well equipped at a military level. The country had a navy and many in her army were experienced in combat as a result of World War Two. (In the British Army) -
1949 Armistice Agreements
The 1949 Armistice Agreements are a set of agreements signed during 1949 and its neighboring countries to end the 1949 Arab-Israeli War. -
Suez Crisis
Israeli forces invaded Egypt and moved towards the Suez Canal. In accordance with their previous agreement, Britain and France sent an ultimatum to both Israel and Egypt to withdraw from the Canal Zone. -
Six day war
On June 1967, Israel launched an attack against Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, after the president of Egypt had declared that he wants to annihilate Israel and forged military alliances with Syria and Jordan for that destroying Israel, furthermore building up troop concentrations along his border with Israel and blockading shipping to the Israeli port of Eilat. The six-day war that followed Israel's surprise attack ended with the Israeli army occupying Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, Syria's Golan Heights, -
Yom Kipur War
In the first attack the Egyptian army succeeded in crossing the Suez Canal and also established a good foothold the Syrians occupied part of the east. Weapons were supplied by the Russians and this enabled them to neutralize the Israeli air force, -
Israel-Egypt Treaty of Peace
In 1979, a peace agreement was signed between Israel and Egypt -- the first with any Arab country -- under the terms of which peace and normal diplomatic relations were established between the two states.
