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Gave Jews a home in Palestine.
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After WW I ended the Jews sarted to immigrate to Palestine.
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A plan to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict was approved.
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The Arab league supported the Arab Liberation Army. The army attacked Jewish communities in Palestine.
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1.5 million fled to the Gaza Strip, West Bank, and other Arab countries.
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Declaration read before British mandate expired.
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Arabs insist refugees are allowed back to their homes. Egypt kept Israel out of the Suez Canal.
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Revolution began Palestine Liberation Organization founded in Cairo.
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UN reaffirmed commitment to an independant sovereign state in Palestine and gave PLO observer status in UN. Arafat, chairman of the PLO, addresses the UN.
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Islamic fundementalists killed Sadat in Cairo.
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A Palestinian uprising causes a series of violents incidents between Palestinians and Israelis.
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After secret agreements, Prime Minister Rabin and PLO chairman Arafat, flew to Washington, D.C. and signed a peace agreement.
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Rabin was assassinated in Tel Aviv by right-wing extremists who considered his crusade for peace a betrayal of the Jewish state.
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A peace summit at Camp David took place between US president Bill Clinton, Israeli president Ehud Barak, and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat. The summit ended on July 25th, without an agreement being reached.
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The Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas accepted and invitation to a peace summit from Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon. The Palestinian president declared and end to the fighting with Israel after more than four years of fighting.
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The Lebanon July War was a 34 day conflict between Israel and Lebanon that killed thousand of civilians.The conflict started because Hezbollah militants fired rockets at Israeli towns as a diversion for an anti-tank missile attack on two Humvees patrolling the Israeli side of the border.
