Israel-Palestine Conflict

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  • Der Judeenrat (The Jewish State) by Theodor Herzl

    It heralded the coming of age of Zionism.

  • First Zionist Congress

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    Second Aliyah (after failed 1905 Russian revolution)

    Mass wave of Jewish immigrants mainly from Russia to Ottoman Palestine

  • Hussein-McMahon Correspondence

    British promise that Arab territory of Ottoman Empire be returned to Arab sovereignty (except some areas in Lebanon and parts of Syria, but not Palestine, according to Arab interpretations)

  • British-French Sykes-Pict Agreement

    Secret Agreement that Palestine would be an international zone
    - Palestine under British and French
    - Syria under Arab state under French

  • Balfour Declaration

    The British expressed support for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine

  • British troops ender Palestine, set up provisional military government

  • Britain granted mandate over Palestine by League of Nations

    • Strategic aim: Access to the Suez Canal and oil fields in Iraq
    • Responsibility of managing political, administrative and economic economic conditions as well as safeguarding the civil and religious rights of al the inhabitants of Palestine, irrespective of race and religion
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    Arab Revolt

    first sustained violent uprising of Palestinian Arabs in more than a century.

  • White Paper

    Issued by the British government which agreed to the establishment of a Jewish national home within an independent Palestine by 1949. In the policy, Jewish immigration was limited to 75,000 people a year for five years and restrictions were also placed on how much land Jews could buy. The paper was rejected by Zionist groups in Palestine.
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    Arab Israeli War - first phase

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    Arab Israeli War - First phase

  • Baldat al-Sheikh massacre

    70 people killed

  • Sa'sa' massacre

    16 houses blown up, 60 people killed

  • Deir Yassin massacre

    110 men, women and children killed
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    Arab Israeli War - Second phase

  • War of Infiltration

  • Israeli-Egyptian armistice

  • Israeli-Lebanon agreement

  • Israeli-Transjordan agreement

  • Israeli-Syrian agreement

  • Fedayeen raids on Israel

    19 killed, 31 injured

  • Egypt Coup

    Egypt’s monarchy was overthrown by the Free Officers

  • Qibya raid

    First major retaliatory strike on the Feyadeen (palestinian paramilitary groups)

  • Nasser replaces Naguib to become leader of Egypt

  • group of Israeli agents in collaboration with Egyptian Jews tried to sabotage British and American property in Egypt in order to create discord between the Egyptian government and the West

  • Gaza raid

  • Egypt nationalises Suez Canal Company

  • Soviet issue about statement about motivations

  • First London Conference

    Dulles plan - international board for the Suez Canal

  • Soviet reject Dulles Plan

  • Second London Conference

    Suez Canal Users Association

  • Britain and France take Suez issue to UN Security Council

  • Sevres Protocol

  • Isreal invades Egypt

  • Great Britain and France vetoed a US resolution requesting Israel to withdraw its troops from Egyptian territory

  • Change of government in Syria

    The rise to power of militant Ba'thisits resulted in increasingly hostile rhetoric at a time when already bad Syrian-Israeli border relations were deteriorating.

  • Israel and Syria clashed in the Sea of Galilee

  • Egypt signs a mutual defence pact with Syria

    boosted Syria confidence - but also increased Israels threat perception

  • Israel and Syria engage in air battle over Syria

  • Soviet intellegience report

    Soviet President Nikolai Podgorny told Nasser’s aide Anwar Sadat, who was on a visit to Moscow, that Israeli troops had mobilized and intended to invade Syria

  • Egyptian troops moved into Sinai

  • Jordan joined the general mobilisation agreement

  • Nasser closes the straits of Tiran

  • Jordan signs a mutual defence agreement with Egypt

  • Israel attempts to negotiate the opening of the strats

  • Israel's national unity government was established

  • Israel launched its pre-emptive strike

  • Battle of West Bank ended - Israel captures East Jersulaem

  • Egypt agrees to a ceasefire with Israel

  • Syrian-Israeli fighting

  • Jordan and Egypt agreed to ceasefires

  • Sadat and Defence Minister General Ahmad Ismail Ali decided to go to war

    assumption that the superpowers would prevent a complete military victory by either side

  • Syria’s and Egypt’s armed forces were placed under joint command

  • Suprise attack by Egypt and Syria on Israel

    Began the Yom Kippur War

  • Syrian forces were repelled

    Help from American airlift of military equipment combined with Israeli counter-offensives

  • Israeli forces had crossed the Suez Canal

  • Kissinger fled to Moscow and drafted a ceasefire agreement with Communist Party Chairman Breznev

  • Ceasefire accepted

  • The last of the fighting

    Soviet Union had put its own troops on alert and threatened intervention in order to relieve the Egyptian Third Army, which had been trapped.