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Rejected Partition
United Nations voted to partition British-controlled Palestine into Arab and Jewish states Arabs leaders rejected the partition Israel declared independence and six Arab states attack -
Israelis create and maintained settlements
Jewish communities within the Occupied Territories of the West Bank and Gaza practice is considered illegal, Israelis expand these settlements, believing the OT belongs to Jews communities are surrounded by safety zones Palestinians are not allowed to farm and have roads that Palestinians are not allowed to use -
Six Day War.
United Nations peacekeepers prepares its army, Israel launches a surprise attack. Syria, Jordan, and Iraq join the fighting, but Israel decimates the Arab forces Israelis captured East Jerusalem and the West Bank from Jordan, Gaza and Sinai from Egypt and the Golan Heights from Syria -
Yom Kippur War
on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Egypt and Syria launch a surprise attack on Israeli forces in Sinai and the Golan Heights Israel later withdraws from parts of Sinai and the Golan Heights -
Egypt becomes the first Arab nation to recognize israel
Egyptian president Anwar Sadat’s surprise visit to Jerusalem, US President Jimmy Carter brokers peace between Egypt and Israel. Egypt becomes the first Arab nation to recognize Israel, -
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Intifada
Palestinians begin an uprising stone-throwing youths attacking Israeli soldiers The first suicide attack on civilians in Israel