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The Balfour Declaration
The Balfour Declaration was a November 2, 1917 letter from British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Lord Rothschild that made public the British support of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The Balfour Declaration led the League of Nations to entrust the United Kingdom with the Palestine Mandate in 1922. -
Peel Commission
The violence of the Arab Revolt starting in 1936 led Britain to set up a new Royal Commission (the Peel Commission) in to examine the conflict between Arabs and Jews in Palestine. The Jewish leadership accepted partition in principle as an opportunity for sovereignty, while "most of the Arabs" condemned the Plan considering it unjust. -
The Jewish People's Council
The Jewish National Council, also known as the Jewish People's Council was the main national institution of the Jewish community within the British Mandate of Palestine. The Jewish People's Council gathered at the Tel Aviv Museum, and approved a proclamation declaring "the establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz Israel, to be known as the State of Israel". -
Palestinian Liberation Organization
The Palestine Liberation Organization is an organization founded in 1964 with the purpose of creating an independent State of Palestine. Conceived by the Arab states at the first Arab summit meeting, the 1964 Arab League summit, its stated goal was the "liberation of Palestine" through armed struggle. -
The Six Day War
The Six-Day War, also known as the June War, 1967 Arab–Israeli War, or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between June 5 and 10, 1967, by Israel, Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.
