Israeli-palestinan conflict

1897

Jan 1, 1897

Zionist movement founded (in Europe)

1910

Jan 3, 1910

Chaim Weizmann lobbies British to support Zionist plans

1914

Jan 23, 1914

British census places population of Palestine at “689,272 persons, of whom no more (and perhaps less) than 60,000 were Jews”

1916

Jan 23, 1916

Sykes-Picot (British-French) agreement divides Arabian peninsula between British and French; Palestine left an international zone

1917

Jan 23, 1917

Balfour Declaration announces support of British government for “the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people,” while insisting also upon the rights of non-Jewish peoples

1920

Jan 23, 1920

Some migration of European Jews to Palestine: Jewish population rises from 83,790 in 1922 census (out of 752,048 total) to 174,606 by 1931 (out of 1,033,314 total); more violence in 1929

1921

Jan 23, 1921

First Palestinian uprisings against Zionist settlement (Jaffa)

1935

Jan 23, 1935

Major Palestinian uprising against Zionist settlements; British disarm Palestinian groups in aftermath

1940

Jan 23, 1940

Armed Zionist groups pressure British to allow Israeli statehood (1944 Stern Gang assassination of British Secretary of State Lord Moyne; 1946 bombing of King David Hotel, with at least 88 killed)

1945

Jan 23, 1945

US and Britain refuse to open doors to Jewish holocaust refugees, directing flow of migrants to Israel

1948

Jan 23, 1948

Deir Yassin massacre, 250 killed by Menachim Begin’s troops; flight of as many as 900,000 unarmed Palestinians to surrounding Arab states; Israeli statehood proclaimed, recognized by US and 32 other states at UN (13 against, 10 abstentions); Palestinians and surrounding Arab states reject Israeli statehood, war ensues; Yitzhak Shamir’s unit assassinates UN mediator, Count Folke Bernadotte

1950

Jan 23, 1950

Israel wins series of military conflicts with Arab states, solidifying position and laying permanent claim to former Palestinian lands

1950s-60s

Jan 23, 1950

Beginnings of officially-recognized Middle East terrorism problems, including airplane hijackings and bombings, first carried out by Israel, eventually by Palestinians and others; Ariel Sharon’s unit commits massacre at Qibya in 1953

Isreal-palestinian conflict

Jan 23, 2015

1930

Jan 23, 2015

Zionist revisionists (Vladimir Jabotinsky and Stern Gang) begin negotiations with Nazis over support for Zionist settlement in Palestine; Jewish population increases more rapidly, reaching 528,702 by 1944 (out of 1,739,624 total)