Israeli-Palestinian Conflict from 1917 to 1979

By GChurchill

  • Balfour Declaration

  • Period: to

    1917-1979

  • Zionist Organisation submits a plan of implementation for the Balfour Declaration

  • (April 4-7) 1920 Palestine Riots

  • (May 1-7) Jaffa Riots

  • (Late 1921) Mohammad Amin al-Husayni becomes the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem

  • (July 1937) The Peel Commisiion proposes a partition plan

  • The White Paper of 1939 is proposed

  • King David Hotel Bombing

  • Britain announces its intention to hand the British Mandate for Palestine to the UN

  • UN Partition of Palestine

  • "Civil War"

  • Haifa Oil Refinery Massacre

  • (Winter and Spring) Battle of the Roads

  • 1948 Ben Yehuda Street Bombing

  • (April 6-12) Operation Nachshon

  • Deir Yassin Massacre

  • Hadassah Medical Convoy Massacre

  • Kfar Etzion Massacre

  • Israeli Independence

  • 1948 Arab-Israeli War

  • (June) The Altalena Affair

  • 1956 Suez War

  • Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is founded

  • (June) The Six-Day War

  • Yasser Arafat becomes head of the Fatah party

  • (September) Black September

  • Lod Airport Massacre

  • Munich Massacre

  • (October) Yom Kippur War

  • Kiryat Shmona Massacre

  • (October 26-29) Arab League recognizes PLO

  • Camp David Accord

  • Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty