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The Balfour Declaration
The first announcement of astanblishing a home land for the jewish people in Palistine. -
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Jewish Settlements
Create homeland in Palistine or Israel. -
The Holocaust
The mass slaughter of European civilians and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War II,usually used with the mass slaughter of people; especially genocide. -
Partition Plan
The adoption of the partition resolution by the General Assembly was received by the Jewish community with great joy and thousands went out to the streets to celebrate, even though it was clear that the Arab states and the Palestinian Arabs would embark on a relentless war against the realization of the plan to establish a Jewish state. -
Formation of the PLO
The Palestine Liberation Organization is undoubtedly one of the best known terrorist organizations in the world. -
The Six Days War
The Arabs were equally adamant in their refusal to negotiate a separate settlement for the refugees. -
Munich Olympics
Just one day after the memorial ceremony for the victims took place in Munich's Olympic Stadium, a Foreign Ministry official told a special sitting of the federal cabinet what would ultimately become the maxim for both Bavarian and West German officials. -
Yom Kippur War
Israel withdrew from all the area it had acquired from Syria during the 1973 war in addition to some area gained in 1967. Within Israel, the October 1973 war intensified the debate about the future of Israel's control over the 1967 territories. -
Camp David Accords
Muhammad Anwar al-Sadat, President of the Arab Republic of Egypt, and Menachem Begin, Prime Minister of Israel, met with Jimmy Carter, President of the United States of America, at Camp David from September 5 to September 17, 1978, and have agreed on the following framework for peace in the Middle East. -
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First Intifada
Israeli forces murdered four young Palestinians at a Gaza check point and then an Israeli trooper opened fire on a group of peaceful Palestinian protestors that resulted in the killing of Hatem Abu Sisi, a seventeen year old boy. -
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Second Intifada
The Israeli security fence (or Separation Barrier) erected in order to stop terror attacks has disrupted Palestinian life in the West bank, and security barriers in place throughout the West Bank, at which Palestinians with explosives are still caught on a fairly regular basis, attest that the Second Intifada is not really over. -
Oslo Peace Accords
