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A sykes-picot Secret agreement is signed, dividing the middle east between the French and British. The agreement defines their mutually agreed sphere of influence and control in the middle east should they succeed in beating the Ottoman Empire.
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Britain seizes Palestine from Ottomans. Gives support to "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine through the Balfour Declaration. Not yet accepted by the league of nations.
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The league of nations approves the British mandate for Palestine and its purpose of helping estabilish a Jewish homeland
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Al-Buraq uprising takes place, the first mass protests against the increased Jewish immigration to Palestine through the new act
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Britain kills a leader in Palestine because of the revolutionary ways of thinking proposed by him.
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The UN adopts the new policy 181 but Palestinians reject this partition plan as it would mean they would be partitioned into Arab and Jewish states, with the city of Jerusalem as a separate entity to be governed by a special international regime.
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Stern gang and Irgun forces massacre Palestinians in the village of Dayr Yassin, near Jerusalem just so that could grab this little piece of land
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The Stern gang assassinates Folke Bernadotte, A Swedish diplomat and un-appointed mediator for the conflict in Palestine.
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The first armistice agreement was signed between Israel and Egypt followed by Lebanon in March Jordan in April and finally Syria in July, allowing soldiers to start pressuring citizens in Palestine instead of worrying about wars elsewhere.
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For Palestinians, that year is the Nakba or Catastrophe when hundreds of thousands were forced out of their homes. For Israelis, that year marks the creation of the state of Israel that later invades more and more of their home land.
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the eastern part of Jordan was annexed and named the west bank becoming a part of Palestine
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At the Munich Olympics, gunmen took the Israeli team hostage and killed two athletes at the site and nine more were murdered during a failed rescue attempts by German authorities.
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The Israeli air force bombed a nuclear reactor in Osirak, Iraq but because we don't know the cause we can't define it as state terrorism or an act of war on the state of Iraq.
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Israel invades Lebanon in order to expel Palestine Liberation Organisations leadership after the assassination attempt by small Palestinian military group on Israeli ambassador at London. This was thought of an attack of terrorism during the invasion of Lebanon.
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Former nuclear technician Mordechai Vanunu of Israel reveals the detail of Israel's nuclear weapons programme to the British press and the details of their plans