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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.
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The UN recommended splitting territory into jewish and palestinian states, counrruies voted.
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The state of Israel was proclaimed.
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5 armies onvaded Israel but were immediately repulsed.
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Israel, france and britain went to war against egypt.
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Palestinians created an independent organization when the Palestine Liberation Organization was taken over by Yasser Arafat.
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Israel launched a series of preemptive airstrikes against Egyptian airfields, syria assembled a large number of troops.
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under Yasser Arafat's leadership, PLO factions and other militant Palestinian groups launched a series of attacks on Israeli and other targets.
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Eleven Israeli Olympic team members were taken hostage and eventually killed, along with a German police officer, by the Palestinian group Black September.
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Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Jordan attacked Israel.
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Arafat made a dramatic first appearance at the United Nations mooting a peaceful solution.
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Israel and Egypt signed the Camp David accords. A peace treaty was concluded and Israel returned the Sinai desert to the Egyptians.
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President Sadat of Egypt was assassinated in 1981 by Islamist elements in the Egyptian army, who opposed peace with Israel, during national celebrations to mark the anniversary of the October war.
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The election of the left-wing Labour government led by Yitzhak Rabin, triggered a period of frenetic Israeli-Arab peacemaking in the mid-1990s.
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A mass uprising - or intifada against the Israeli occupation began in Gaza and quickly spread to the West Bank. More than 1,000 died in clashes which lasted until 1993
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Prime Minister Mr. Rabin and King Hussein of Jordan signed a peace agreement ending 46 years of war and strained relations.
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The returning Palestinian Liberation Army deployed in areas vacated by Israeli troops and Arafat became head of the new Palestinian National Authority.
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buried at his headquarters in Ramallah with soil brought from Jerusalem.
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Hamas wins the Palestinian legislative elections. The US, Israel and several European countries cut off aid to the Palestinians as the Islamist movement rejects Israel's right to exist
