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Balfour Declaration
The first annouced established a Jewish Land for the Palastian home. -
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The First Intifada
A violent uprising of the Palestinians against the British. -
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The Holocaust
The mass slaughter of European civilians and especially Jews by the Nazis during World War II. -
UN GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION
The UN General Assembly voted in favor of a resolution, which adopted the plan for the partition of Palestine, recommended by the majority of the UN Special Committee on Palestine. -
al-Nakba / Establishment of Israel
The mass deportation of a million Palestinians from their cities and villages, massacres of civilians, and the razing to the ground of hundreds of Palestinian villages. -
Yom Kippur War
Egypt and Syria launch a coordinated attack on Israel. -
Formation of the PLO
The Palestine Liberation Organization, or PLO, is created at a meeting of the Arab League-controlled Palestine National Congress in Arab Jerusalem. The force behind the organization's creation isn't the Palestinians themselves, but Egypt. The intent isn't to encourage Palestinian nationalism, but to control it -
The Six Days War (June 5-10)
The war was against Syria, Jordan and Egypt.Arabian attack on Israel. -
Munich Olympics
A Palestinian terrorist attack during the 1972 Olympic Games. -
Camp David Accords
After twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David, the Israeli-Egyptian negotiations wee ended by the signing at the White House of two agreements -
Madrid Summit
A peace conference called by the U.S to Israel, Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and the Palestinians. -
Oslo Peace Accords
A document signed by the PLO to and representatives of the State of Israel to end the violence between the Arabs and Jews in Palastine. -
The Second Intifada
Resulted from a combination of the failure of the Oslo process in creating conditions for an independent Palestinian state, and failure of the preceding Camp David summit. -
The First Intifada
A simple civil disobedience against Israeli rule.
