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The First Zionist Congress
The first Zionist Congress was held in Basle, Switzerland in 1897. it was organized by Theodore Herzl. The Basle Congress is the Zionist first step to establish a mass Zionist movement. Herzl wrote in his diary, "At Basle, I founded the Jewish state.. If not in five years, then certainly in fifty, everyone will realize it.” Jewish Government is seeking to establish a home for the jewish people in Palestine. -
Sykes-Picot Agreement
The Sykes–Picot Agreement is known as the Asia Minor Agreement, it was a secret agreement between the United Kingdom and France with the help of Russia discussing their spheres and control in the Middle East and dividing the lands after they succeed in defeating the Ottoman Empire during WW1. it was on 16 May 1916 when they agreed effectively on dividing the Arab provinces of the Ottoman Empire between Britian and France -
Russian Revolution
When Russia lost in the war; it was a significant factor in precipitating the Revolution. it affect the treaty in which the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk brought Russia's conflict with Germany to an end. The US entered the war on the side of Britain and France, more than compensating for the loss of Russia. So when it affect the Germans knowing that the Ottoman Empire was allied with them , it lead to the division of the Arab countries -
Balfour Declaration
it was a letter from the United Kingdom to the leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. It was declared that the Jewish who live in the Eurpoean Countries can immigrate to the Middle East. It was a truning point in the Middle East future because it allowed the existence of the Jewish in the Arab countries. -
Nakba
“The Nakba did not begin in 1948. Its origins lie over two centuries ago….”So begins this four-part series on the ‘nakba’, meaning the ‘catastrophe’, about the history of the Palestinian exodus that led to the first Arab-Israeli war in 1948 and the establishment of the state of Israel. -
The Suez Canal Crisis
In 1956, the Suez Canal has been the major world conflict. The canalis the only direct means of travel from the Mediterranean to the Indian Ocean.The Egyptian government had just been taken over by Gamal Abdel Nasser and he fely the need to take over the canal. Britain, US and Israel united their forces and attacked Gamal. It's an important event in which Gamal gave power to the Arab world and was the first one to make a move. He encourges other moves in their turn -
Naksa
is the annual day of commemoration for the Palestinian people of the displacement that accompanied Israel's victory in the 1967 Six-Day War. As a result of the war, Israel took control of the Palestinian-populated West Bank and Gaza Strip, which were previously annexed by Jordan and controlled by Egypt, respectively. -
Yom Kippur War
was a war fought by the coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria against Israel from October 6 to 25, 1973.The war began when the coalition launched a joint surprise attack on Israeli positions in the Israeli-occupied territories on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in Judaism, which occurred that year during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. -
Iran-Iraq War
, was an armed conflict between the Islamic Republic of Iran and the Republic of Iraq lasting from September 1980 to August 1988, making it the 20th century's longest conventional war after the Second Sino-Japanese War.[8][9][note 1] It was initially referred to in English as the "Persian Gulf War" prior to the Persian Gulf War of the early 1990s. -
The Holocaust
It was the main excuse that Jewish people had to immigrate to the Arab countrues. The Eurpoeans felt sympathetic towards them which they used as a reason to support their idea and decision of allowing the immigration of the Jewish to palestine.
