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Organized by Theodor Herlz.Zionist goal is to establish a legally assured home for the Jewish people.Zionism is the national liberation movement of Jewish people.
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Sharif Hussein was the ruler of the holy city of Mecca.During World War 1, Commissioner Henry McMahon promised him that Britain would grant independence to most aArab areas.
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Britidh Balfour Declaration promised to create a Jewish homeland.
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League nations divided Ottoman lands.Britain was given the Palestine Mandate.Mandate incorporated the language of the Balfour declaration.
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Nazi Germany attacked and conquered most of Europe.Nazis prosecuted Jews carrying out a genocide known as the Holocaust and it resulted in the murder of 6 million Jews.
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In 1947 tensions betwen Arabs, Jews and the British were growing. Britain announced to pull the region out.On November 29,1947 the UN general assembly voted to partition the Palestine Mandate.
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David Ben Gurion proclaimed the independence of the new state of Israel on May 14,1948.The next day Arab armies attacked the new state.It was the first Arab Israeli war.
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In 1946,PLO was formed with the aim of destroying Israel and creating a Palestinian state.
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Before the war,Egypt,Jordan,Syria and Iraq moved their armies.Egypt closed the international water way.
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Israeli government approved the building of settlements.The term settlements refers to Israeli communities built on land.The first settlements were intended to act as security outposts.
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During the 1967 war, Israel gained land from egypt. Egypt began small scale attacks against israeli.
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Egypt and Syria attacked Israel.But Israelis managed to push back the attack.
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Menachem begin of Israeli and Anwar al Sadat of Egypt signed agreements in Camp David
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Egypt was the first to recognize and enter into a peace treaty with Israel.The president of Egypt Anwar Sadat thet if they kept figting it would arm te Egyptian economy.
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PLO units attacked communities in Northern Israel.Israel then launched an attack on PLO militants. This conflict is known as the 1982 Lebanon War.
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Palestinians engaged in an uprising,or intifada,against Israel.Palestinians attacked Israelis with improvised weapons.
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Oslo accords werea set of agreements that began in 1993.When Israel and PLO signed a declaration of principles.
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In 1997 peace treaty between Egypt and Israel ,the U.S. led a diffucult but successful diplomatic processs.In 1994 Jordan was the second Arab country to recognize Israel.
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President Bill Clinton brought Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Yasser Arafat to Camp david in Jyly 2000.
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In September 2000,Israeli Opposition leader Ariel Sharon visited the Jewish Temple.Many palestinians claimed that Sharons visit was a pretext for violence
