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Balfour Declaration
Its a letter announcing the british support of a jewish homeland in palestine -
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Jewish Immigration
Jewish population increases in Palestine. Jewish begin buying land, building schools and other institutions. -
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Holocaust
A mass murder of some 6 million European Jews as well as members of some other groups, such as Gypsies and homosexuals by the German Nazi during the Second World War. -
Division between Arabs and Jews
The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling for Palestine to divide between Arabs and Jews, allowing for the formation of the Jewish state of Israel. -
The Catastrophe (al - Nakba)
Palestinians and Arabs had rejected a United Nations plan to partition the country between Jews and Palestinians. Palestinians and other countries joined the battle against Jews, -
PLO
Arab governments wanted to create a Palestinian organisation that would remain essentially under their control.The bodies name was called the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO). But the Palestinians wanted a genuinely independent body, and that was the goal of Yasser Arafat who took over the chairmanship of the PLO in 1969. -
The Six Day War
The Israelis defended the war as a preventative military effort to counter what the Israelis saw as an impending attack by Arab nations that surrounded Israel.The war was against Syria, Jordan and Egypt -
Munich Olympics
When a dozen Israeli athletes were taken hostage and killed in what was a terrorist attack by any definition of the term. -
Yom Kippur War
It began on the Day of the holiest day of prayer and fasting in the Jewish calendar. Arab attack on Israel on Saturday 6th October 1973. -
Camp David Accords
Its a historic peace accords forged in 1978 between Israel and Egypt at the U.S. presidential retreat at Camp David, Md. -
The Intifada
The Palestinian population in the West Bank started an uprising against the Israeli. It involved hundreds of thousands of people, many with no previous resistance experience, including children, teenagers and women. -
Madrid Summit
The US administration devoted itself to Middle East peacemaking. -
Oslo Peace Accords
The Oslo accords are the foundation on which peace negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians
