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UN plan to partition Palestine
United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine was a proposal by the United Nations, which recommended a partition of Mandatory Palestine at the end of the British Mandate. On 29 November 1947, the UN General Assembly adopted the Plan as Resolution 181 -
Israel declares Independence
Israel Declares Independence. Rudi Weissenstein/Israel Ministry of Foreign AffairsDavid Ben-Gurion, the first Prime Minister of Israel, pronounces the Declaration of the State of Israel at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art on May 14, 1948. -
The Arab/Israel War
The Arab-Israeli War of 1948. The Arab-Israeli War of 1948 broke out when five Arab nations invaded territory in the former Palestinian mandate immediately following the announcement of the independence of the state of Israel on May 14, 1948. -
The Sues Crisis
in July 1956 to nationalize the 120-mile Suez Canal, which had been jointly controlled by Great Britain and France, in part to fund construction of the Aswan Dam across the Nile River, a project that Western countries had refused to finance. More than two-thirds of the oil used by Europe flowed through the strategically vital waterway -
The formation of PLO
The Palestinian National Council convened in Jerusalem on 28 May 1964. Concluding this meeting the PLO was founded on 2 June 1964. Its stated goal was the "liberation of Palestine" through armed struggle. -
The Six day win
The Six-Day war began on June 5, 1967 exactly fifty years ago, resulting in a massive reorganization of territories in the middle-east. both territories were under the British rule. Both Arabs and Jews, dissatisfied by British rule. -
The Yom Kippur War
On October 6, 1973, hoping to win back territory lost to Israel during the third Arab-Israeli war, in 1967, Egyptian and Syrian forces launched a coordinated attack against Israel on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Taking the Israeli Defense Forces by surprise, Egyptian troops swept deep into the Sinai Peninsula. -
Lebanon War
Its main adversaries were the Maronite Christian Phalanges militia, and later the Lebanese Forces militia It built a powerful private army, which proved to be one of the strongest in the Lebanese Civil War of 1975 to 1990. -
The Oslo Accords
The Oslo Accords and the Arab-Israeli Peace Process. On September 13, 1993, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) Negotiator Mahmoud Abbas signed a Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements, commonly referred to as the “Oslo Accord,” at the White House.
