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1947 United Nations Partition Plan
On Nov. 29, 1947, the United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution calling for Palestine to be partitioned between Arabs and Jews, allowing for the formation of the Jewish state of Israel. -
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Arab-Israeli war of 1948-1949
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. In 1947, and again on May 14, 1948, the United States had offered de facto recognition of the Israeli Provisional Government, but during the war, the United States maintained an arms embargo against all belligerents. Though the United Nations brokered two cease-fires during the conflict -
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1967 Arab-Israeli War
The war was against Syria, Jordan and Egypt. Israel believed that it was only a matter of time before the three Arab states co-ordinated a massive attack on Israel. -
War of Attrition 1969-1970
Over the course of the war of attrition, Israel lost 14 military aircraft. Egypt lost 98, according to an Israeli tally. Egypt never held a full accounting of its war dead, hiding much of the war's losses from the Egyptian public. Israeli estimates put Egyptian losses at 10,000 military and civilian deaths between the end of the 1967 Six Day war and August 1970, when the war of attrition ended.On 31 July the [Israeli] cabinet volost 367 soldiers on the Egyptian front and no civilians." -
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Yom Kipur War 1973
Suddenly, at exactly 2 p.m., this hushed stillness erupted as 2,000 Egyptian artillery pieces, Katyusha rockets, howitzers, and surface-to-surface missiles blasted the canal’s eastern bank, throwing tremendous plumes of sand into the air. Israeli defensive positions years in the making were pulverized in minutes. Without warning, 222 Egyptian MiG and Sukhoi fighters came screaming out of the sky and bombed command posts, surface-to-air batteries, air bases, supply dumps, and radar installations. -
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Israel-Egypt Treaty of Peace
They fought four wars since 1948 and they wanted a peace treaty. With Egypt sidelined by the provisions of its treaty with Israel, the Begin government [Israel] was able to plan a major assault against the PLO in Lebanon relatively untroubled by the risk of an escalation into general war [with the surrounding Arab countries]." -
First Palestinian Intifada
It began on 9 December 1987 in the Jabaliya Refugee Camp in the Gaza Strip, when an Israeli truck crashed into two vans carrying Palestinian workers killing four of them. This event served as a catalyst sparking rebellions throughout the occupied territories. The Intifada demonstrated to the world the legitimate national sentiments of the Palestinian people. It paved the way for future negations between Israel and the PLO culminating in the Oslo Accords. -
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Palestine-Israeli Cold War
When a splinter group within the PLO tries to mount a raid into Israel in summer 1990, the US breaks off negotiations with the PLO. ving recognized Israel’s right to exist without receiving any concessions in return, Yasir Arafat decides to associate the PLO with the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein. Saddam Hussein soon states that Israel’s withdrawal from the occupied territories is a necessary precondition for Iraq’s evacuation of Kuwait.
