Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

  • Zionism

    Zionism
    The Zionist founder, Theodor Herzl, believed that if Jews did not have their own land then they would never stop being oppressed and prosecuted.
  • Correspondence of McMahon-Hussein

    Correspondence of McMahon-Hussein
    They argued with the British over the borders of the land that was promised to them.
  • Balfour Declaration

    Balfour Declaration
    The Jews were promised land near or at the Jewish Holy Place, Israel.
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    British Mandate For Palestine

    Because of having this land the Jews quickly left to it to develop the land
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    Holocaust and WW2

    Started Because of the unfounded fear hate and paranoia of Adolf Hitler towards Jews.
  • UN Partition Plan

    UN Partition Plan
    The british pullin out made a treaty and gave the arabs and jews a peice of lant to make a Arab-Jew state which did not calm them down but made the Arabs more agressive towards the jews.
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    1948 War

    Because of the war the arab states claim more land than what the partition granted them.
  • Establishment of the PLO

    Establishment of the PLO
    It was created with the goal of destroying israel and creating a palestinian state in its place.
  • Six Day War

    Six Day War
    Because of egypt closing the international waterway it was clear that they were proposing war.
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    The War of Attrition

    Because of the Arabs adopting the 3No's Policy they began to attack israel in order to erase it from the map
  • Settlelment Bonstruction Begins

    Because of the war the jews made security outposts in the places that were captured from the arabs
  • Yom Kippur War