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United Nations Partition Plan
This event was a general assembly on the partition of Palestine into Arab and Jewish states. Jerusalem was to be an internationalized city. -
Modern Israel
Modern Israel is founded with the United Nations. Chairman David Ben-Gurion declares the state of Israel. He established the first Jewish state in 2,000 years. -
Outbreak Between Palestinian Arabs and Modern Israel
Palestinians and Israelites fight over land. They each want land but there is so little to fight over -
6 Day War
War breaks out between Israel and the People around it. Three battle fronts were tied together by a desire everyone wanted on part of the surrounding Arab states to destroy Israel and take away their shame and defeat that happened 19 years ago. -
Camp David Accord
US president Jimmy Carter makes an agreement and Sinai is given back to Egypt. In return they got Egyptian recognition of Israel. -
Lebanon war
This war was called Operation Peace for Galilee by the Arabs. There was an estimate of 120,000 fatalities -
Intifada
Palestines stand up and fight against increasing illegal settlements. The Palestines were nonviolent because most of them were unarmed. -
Siege of Gaza
This event was a three week armed conflict between Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and Israel. It began on December 27, 2008 and ended January 18, 2009. -
Operation Pillar of Defense
It was an 8 day Israel defense forces operation in the Hamas-governed Gaza Strip. It began on November 14 and the killing of Ahmed Jabari, Chief of the Gaza military wing -
Operation Protective Edge
In this event, Israel attacked Gaza after a Palestinian unity government formed. Over 2,000 Palestines were killed and most of them were civilians.
