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Balfour Declaration
The Balfour declaration was deliberately contrived to allow the British to renege on earlier promises to France and the Arabs regarding Palestine. Lloyd George reportedly said that British control over Palestine would prevent it from falling into the hands of the agnostic atheistic French. -
U.N. Prtition plan
The General Assembly of the United Nations voted with a 2/3 majority to partition western Palestine into a Jewish and an Arab state. -
Israel Inpendence and Arab Israeli war
The Arab forces were significantly larger than Israel's and were better equipped. Yet, coordination and organization were lacking and the Arab armies were often at odds with each other, seeking to incorporate territory from Palestine into their own states. -
Six Day War
The Six Day War occurred against the background of continuing Arab world hostility to the State of Israel, which had begun with the War of Independence. -
The PLO
A major issue in any peace talks was the fate of the palestnasan arbas. The Palestine Liberation Organization is undoubtedly one of the best known terrorist organizations in the world. -
Yom Kippur war
the holiest day in the Jewish calendar Egypt and Syria opened a coordinated surprise attack against Israel. The equivalent of the total forces of NATO in Europe were mobilized on Israel's borders. -
Camp David Accords
After twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David, the Israeli-Egyptian negotiations were concluded by the signing at the White House of two agreements. -
1st Intifada
Israel has faced yet another challage. That year palestinians in the occuiped lands began a mass unspring. -
2nd Intifada
On October 7, 2000, a Palestinian mob demolished Joseph’s Tomb, a Jewish holy site near the West Bank city of Nablus, then on Oct. 12th , two Israeli reservists who had mistakenly wandered into the Palestnian city of Ramallah were brutally lynched. -
Road Map for peace is created.
The principles of the plan, originally drafted by U.S. Foreign Service Officer Donald Bloome, were first outlined by U.S. President George W. Bush in a speech on June 24, 2002, in which he called for an independent Palestinian state living side by side with Israel in peace.
