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Conflict in Israel

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  • War for Israeli independence

    War for Israeli independence
    The United Nations decides to partition Palestine into an Arab state and a Jewish state. Mounting violence leads to the first Arab-Israeli war in early 1948, when the British withdraw from the region.

  • Suez Crisis

    Suez Crisis
    A plan is devised in which Israel attacks the Sinai Peninsula on Oct. 29, allowing Britain and France to condemn the fighting and demand that both sides withdraw from the region. When Nasser refuses, Britain and France attack. The Soviet Union threatens to use nuclear power in the region to repel the West.

  • Yom Kippur War

    Yom Kippur War
    Arab nations warn Israel that they will not accept Israeli occupation of lands lost in 1967. After Egypt's Nasser was succeeded by Anwar Sadat, Sadat prepares his country for war, including a contract with the Soviets for more sophisticated weaponry. Sadat, allied with President Hafez Assad of Syria, attacks Israel on Oct. 6, 1973 — on Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement.

  • Camp David Accords

    Camp David Accords
    Egyptian and Israeli leaders meet at Camp David with President Carter in 1978 to discuss a treaty in which Egypt would regain full control of the Sinai Peninsula. The treaty is signed on March 26, 1979, lending hope to a future of peace in the region.

  • Palestinian Uprising

    Palestinian Uprising
    Palestinians remain frustrated by the lack of a final peace treaty. As tensions mount, Israel's Likud Party leader Ariel Sharon, a hard-line conservative, visits a disputed holy site in Jerusalem on Sept. 28, 2000, sparking demonstrations. Hamas launches several suicide bombing attacks, including one at a Tel Aviv disco that kills 23 people and another at a Jerusalem pizzeria that kills 15. Within the first year of the uprising, nearly eight hundred are dead as a result of the fighting.