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Britain gives support to the Zionist movement by the Balfour Declaration
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Britain receives the League of Nations mandate over Palestine
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Over 500,000 Jews migrate to Palestine
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Britain severely limits Jewish immigration to Palestine
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The Arab League is founded to unify Arab policy on world issues
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Britain turns the Palestine problem over to the UN General Assembly
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Israel proclaims its independence
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Arab states accept, as temporary, the armistice agreements arranged by UN mediator Ralph Bunche
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Sinai Campaign - Israel invades Egypt to wipe out guerrilla bases and end the Aqaba blockade
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Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) founded
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Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) founded
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Beginning of Arab-Israeli war
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Egyptian president Nasser dies. Position was assumed by Anwar al-Sadat
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Sadat orders the 20,000 Soviet military personnel to leave Egypt
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Arab extremists employ Japanese terrorists to massacre innocent civilians at the Tel Aviv airport
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Israel "wins" the war militarily, but "looses" the war in other ways, such as loosing a major part of its population
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Israel, Egypt, and Jordan - but not Syria - send delegates to a UN-backed peace conference in Geniva, Switzerland
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(PLO) declared the "sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people" by the Arab Nations
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Arab nations secure a UN General Assembly invitation for the (PLO)
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Leftist Palestinian gurrillas take part in Lebanon's civil war
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Beginning of Lebanon's Civil War
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Syria sends 15,000 troops into Lebanon
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Egyptian President Sadat solicits an invitation from Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin; Sadat visits Israel
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a PLO squad lands on the Israeli coast and kills 30 civilians
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The Camp David (Maryland) Conference takes place
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The Israeli-Egyptian Peace Treaty is formed
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The Shah (Iran ruler) faces an uncontrollable opposition by workers protesting low wages and inflation
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President Carter allows the Shah to enter the United States for surgery and treatment of cancer
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The Syrian-Soviet Treaty is formed
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Shah leaves the US and the US leaders break diplomatic relations with Iran
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Start of Iran-Iraq war
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Iran-Iraq War
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President Carter orders a military mission to rescue hostages in Iran, but the attempt fails when aircrafts malfunction and cause 8 people to die
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War begins again in Lebanon
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Israeli armed forces bomb the Lebanese capital, Beirut
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Israeli warplanes bomb and destroy an Iraqi nuclear reactor being built with French aid
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Egyptian President Sadat is assassinated; position taken over by vice-president Hosni Mubarak
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United States sells $8.5 Billion of Military equipment, including Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) planes to Saudi Arabia
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Israel Annexes Golan Heights
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Israel invades Lebanon and forces most PLO guerrillas to leave
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Syria helps drive out the rest of the PLO guerrillas in Lebanon
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Suicide bombers drive bomb trucks into US and French military compounds killing 241 Marines and 58 French soldiers
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US President Regan withdraws US forces from Lebanon
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Israel withdraws most of its forces from Lebanon
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Palestinians start uprising against Israel called the Intifadah
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Lebanese President Amin Gemayel's term expires
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Arafat and the Palestine National Council met in Algiers to proclaim the formation of an independent "state of Palestine"
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Yasir Arafat proposes a peace plan calling for Israel and Palestine
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Lebanese parliament approves new constitution designed to increase the power of Lebanon's Muslim majority and end the civil war
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Syrian troops assault the Lebanese presidental palace to remove Christian general Michel Aoun.
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Beginning of Middle East peace talks held by the United States and Soviet Union
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Israeli voters turn towards a more flexible Labor Party
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Israel and the PLO open formal diplomatic talks
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Israel and the PLO open formal diplomatic talks
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Israel and the PLO sign an accord of peace in Washington D.C.
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Israel and the PLO sign an accord in which they agree that Israeli withdraw from Arab territories