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Balfour declaration
A letter from the United Kingdom's Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Walter Rothschild, a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland. -
Six Day War
Arab–Israeli War, or Third Arab–Israeli War, was fought between June 5 and 10, 1967 by Israel and the neighboring states of Egypt, Jordan, and Syria. -
Yom Kippur War
The Yom Kippur War, Ramadan War, or October War, also known as the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, was a war fought by a coalition of Arab states led by Egypt and Syria against Israel from October 6 to 25, 1973. -
The First Intifada
The First Intifada or First Palestinian Intifada was a Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. -
The 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. -
Palestinian Proposal of a Unilateral Declaration of Statehood
Repeated actions of hostility on the part of Israel, their continued development of settlements, ignoring of internationally agreed upon boundaries, and continuing breakdown of negotiations, caused Palestine to seek statehood unilaterally. As such, President Abbas applied to the UN for recognition as a state, just like any other nation.
