middle east timeline- james ahr

  • balfour decloration

    the brittish government issued a bill that would help stabolize the palestine government and prevent any descriminatin of civil or religious rights
  • restricted travel

    the Brittish government restricted the jewish imogrents entering the country to prevent uprisings from the palestinian population.
  • massacre in baldat al-shaikh

    the massacre of a large camp took the lives of over 60 people; mostly women, the elderly, and children
  • isreal is founded

    created on may 14, the decloration was to be drafted over several months and included both jews and arabs
  • 1st arab israeli war

    a civil war between arabs and israelis that lasted 13 months. many died in the conflict.
  • palestinian refugees

    more than 750,000 palestinian refugees flee for the gaza strip and other boardering countrys to escape the civil war.
  • the suez war

    the suez war started because the egyption government would not alow israeli tradeships through and blackaded the entire canal. this was seen as an act of war because they relied hevily on trade in that part of the world.