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Zionism
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First Zionist Congress
Organized by Theodot Herzl, the founder of modern political zionism. -
McMahon-Hussein Correspondance
Sharif Hussein was the ruler of the Muslim city of mecca -
Balfour Declaration
The British Balfour Declaration promised to create a Jewish homeland in the region comprising the ancient Land of Israel. -
British Mandate for Palestine
The British Mandate for Palestine, shortly Mandate for Palestine, or the Palestine Mandate was a League of Nations mandate for the territory that had formerly constituted the Ottoman Empire sanjaks of Nablus, Acre, the Southern part of the Vilayet of Syria, the Southern portion of the Beirut Vilayet. -
The Holocaust and World War 2
Nazi Germany attacked and conquered most of Europe. Nazi had kept the Jews in camps called "concentration camps" where they treated the Jews with cruelty. -
UN Partition Plan
In 1947, amdist groeing tensions between Arabs , Jews , and the British , Britain announced its plan to pull out of the region and turned the question of sovereignty over to the United nations. -
1948 War
In accordance with the UN Partition Plan , David Ben-Gurion proclained the independence of the new state of Israel on may 14, 1948. -
Establishment of the PLO
In 1964, the Palestine Liberation Organziation (PLO) was formed with the aim of destroying Israel and creating a Palestinian state in its place. -
Settlement Construction Begins
The Israeli government approved the building of settlements in the Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip, and West Bank. The term settlements refers to Israel communities built on land that was captured in the 1967 War. -
Six Day War
In the days before the war, Egypt , Jordan , Syria and Iraq moved their armies to Israeli's borders. Egypt closed the international water way, the Straits of Tiran, to all Israel shipping, an act of war in international law. -
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Khartoum Resolution
The Khartoum Resolution of September 1, 1967 was issued at the conclusion of 1967 Arab League summit convened in the wake of the Six-Day War, in Khartoum, the capital of Sudan. -
October War
Egypt and Syria attacked Israel on Yon Kippur, the holiest day of the jewish year. -
Camp David Accords
Menachem Begin of Israel and Anwar al-Sadat of Egypt signed agreements in Camp David. The American-sponsered talks paved the way to the peace treaty signed in 1979. -
Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty
As a result of intense diplomatic efforts by the United States, Egypt, they became the first to sign a peace treaty with Israel. -
First Lebanon War
PLO units in southern Lebanon increasingly attacked communtities in Northern Israel. -
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First Intifada
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank engaged in an uprising, or intifada, against Israeli control of these territories. -
Oslo Accords
The Oslo Accords were a set of agreements that began in 1993 when israel and the PLO signed a Declaration of Principles (DOP). The Oslo Accords led to the creation of the Palestanian Authority, which had responsibility for administering the territory under its control. -
Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty
As with the 1979 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel, the United States led a difficult but successful diplomatic process to help Jordan and Israel achieve peace. -
Camp David Summit
American President Bill Clinton brought Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Pesident Yasser Arafat to Camp David in July 2000. -
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Second Intifada
The Second Intifada, also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada, was the second Palestinian uprising against Israel – a period of intensified Israeli-Palestinian violence. -
West Bank Security Barrier
In 2002, Israel responded to the suicide bombings by constructing a security barrier to protect its citizens from terrorist groups in the West Bank. -
Arab Peace Initiative Is Proposed
In March 2002, during the Beirut Ummit of the Arab League, crown prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia (the current king) proposed a peace initiative that was endorsed by all members of the Arab League. -
Roadmap for Peace is Proposed
The Roadmap for peace or road map for peace was a plan to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict proposed by the Quartet on the Middle East: the United States, the European Union, Russia and the United Nations. The principles of the plan, originally drafted by U.S. Foreign Service Officer Donald Blome, were first outlined by U.S. President George W. Bush in a speech on 24 June 2002, in which he called for an independent Palestinian state living side by side with Israel in peace. -
Israel Disengages from Gaza
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The Israeli disengagement from Gaza (Hebrew: תָּכְנִית הַהִתְנַתְּקוּת, Tokhnit HaHitnatkut; in the Disengagement Plan Implementation Law), also known as "Gaza expulsion" and "Hitnatkut", was the withdrawal of the Israeli army from Gaza, and the dismantling of all Isr -
Hamas is Elected
The Hamas party won the Palestinian legislative elections on 25 January 2006, and Ismail Haniyeh was nominated as Prime Minister, establishing a Palestinian national unity government with Fatah, which effectively collapsed when Hamas and Fatah engaged in a violent conflict. -
Second Lebanon War
The 2006 Lebanon War, also called the 2006 Israel–Hezbollah War and known in Lebanon as the July War and in Israel as the Second Lebanon War, was a 34-day military conflict in Lebanon, northern Israel and the Golan Heights. -
Battle of Gaza
The Battle of Gaza, also referred to as Hamas' takeover of Gaza, was a short military conflict between Fatah and Hamas, that took place in the Gaza Strip between 10 and 15 June 2007. -
Syrian Nuclear Reactor
Operation Orchard[2][3] (Hebrew: מבצע בוסתן, Mivtza bustan) was an Israeli airstrike on a suspected nuclear reactor[4] in the Deir ez-Zor region[5] of Syria, which occurred just after midnight (local time) on September 6, 2007. The Israeli and U.S. governments imposed virtually total news blackouts immediately after the raid that held for seven months.[6] The White House and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) subsequently confirmed that American intelligence had also indicated the site was a nuc -
Annapolis Conference
The Annapolis Conference was a Middle East peace conference held on 27 November 2007, at the United States Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, United States. The conference aimed to revive the Israeli–Palestinian peace process and implement the "Roadmap for peace". -
Hezbollah Governance in Lebanon
The 2008 conflict in Lebanon[5] began on May 7, after Lebanon's 17-month-long political crisis spiraled out of control. The fighting was sparked by a government move to shut down Hezbollah's telecommunication network and remove Beirut Airport's security chief Wafic Shkeir over alleged ties to Hezbollah. Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah said the government's decision to declare the group's military telecommunications network illegal was a "declaration of war" on the organization, and demanded th -
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The Gaza Conflict
The Gaza War, also known as Operation Cast Lead, also known as the Gaza Massacre and the Battle of al-Furqan by Hamas, was a three-week armed conflict between Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and Israel ... -
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Egyption Revolution
The Egyptian Revolution of 2011, locally known as the January 25 Revolution (Egyptian Arabic: ثورة 25 يناير; Thawret 25 yanāyir),[21] began on 25 January 2011 and was all over Egypt. It consisted of demonstrations, marches, occupations of plazas, riots, non-violent civil resistance, acts of civil disobedience and strikes. -
Syrian Civil War
he Syrian Civil War is an ongoing multisided armed conflict with international interventions taking place in Syria. -
The Arab Spring
The Arab Spring (Arabic: الربيع العربي, ar-rabīˁ al-ˁarabī) was a revolutionary wave of demonstrations and protests (both non-violent and violent), riots, and civil wars in the Arab world that began on 18 December 2010 -
Gaza-Israel Conflict
On March 9, Israel carried out a targeted air strike in the Gaza Strip killing Zohair al-Qaisi, the secretary general of the Popular Resistance Committees (PRC). Another militant was also killed in the strike which also seriously injuring a man nearby.[5] According to the IDF, though the PRC denies this, Al-Qaisi had overseen the 2011 southern Israel cross-border attacks, which killed eight Israelis including six civilians.[6] Israeli officials said that he was preparing the final stages of a ne -
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Kerry Israeli- Palestinian
Direct negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians began on 29 July 2013 following an attempt by United States Secretary of State John Kerry to restart the peace process. -
Murder of One Palestinian Teen
On 12 June 2014, three Israeli teenagers were kidnapped at the bus/hitchhiking stop at the Israeli settlement of Alon Shvut in Gush Etzion, in the occupied West Bank, as they were hitchhiking to their homes.[3] The three teens were Naftali Frenkel (16, from Nof Ayalon), Gilad Shaer (16, from Talmon), and Eyal Yifrah (19, from Elad). -
Rise of ISIL
Al Jazeera explores the origins and evolution of the world's most feared and powerful insurgent group - ISIL. ... ISIL is the product of genocide in Syria. -
Operation Protective Edge
The 2014 Israel–Gaza conflict, also known as Operation Protective Edge was a military operation launched by Israel on 8 July 2014 in the Hamas-ruled Gaza Strip. -
Gaza Flotilla Incident
The Gaza flotilla raid was a military operation by Israel against six civilian ships of the "Gaza Freedom Flotilla" on 31 May 2010 in international waters in the Mediterranean Sea. Nine activists were killed in the raid. The flotilla, organized by the Free Gaza Movement and the Turkish Foundation for Human Rights and Freedoms and Humanitarian Relief (İHH), was carrying humanitarian aid and construction materials, with the intention of breaking the Israeli blockade of the Gaza Strip -
Prisoner Exchange
The Gilad Shalit prisoner exchange (Hebrew: עסקת שליט; Arabic: صفقة شاليط) followed a 2011 agreement between Israel and Hamas to release Israeli soldier Gilad Shalit in exchange for 1,027 prisoners – mainly Palestinians and Arab-Israelis, although there was also a Ukrainian,[1] a Jordanian[2] and a Syrian.[3] Two hundred and eighty of these were sentenced to life in prison for planning and perpetrating various attacks against Israeli targets. -
Iran Nuclear Deal
On 24 November 2013, the Geneva interim agreement, officially titled the Joint Plan of ... It consists of a short-term freeze of portions of Iran's nuclear program in
