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  Theodore Herzl tried to find a political solution for the problem in his book, 'The Jewish State in 1896
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  World War I Palestine was ruled by the Turkish Ottoman empire.
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  since 1920, handed over responsibility for solving the Zionist-Arab problem to the UN in 1947.
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  The State of Israel was proclaimed on May 14, 1948 in Tel Aviv.
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  In 1956 Israel, France and Britain went to war against Egypt
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  On May 28, 1964 the Palestinians created a genuinely independent organization
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  Members of the Israeli Olympic team were taken hostage and eventually killed by the Palestinian group Black September on September 5, 1972
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  On October 6, 1973, Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish year, Egypt, Syria, Iraq and Jordan attacked Israel.
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  groups launched a series of attacks on Israeli and other targets
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  1974 mooting a peaceful solution
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  In 1979, after intensive negotiations conducted by the U.S., Israel and Egypt signed the Camp David accords
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  Sadat was assassinated in 1981 by Islamist elements in the Egyptian army,
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  A mass uprising - or intifada against the Israeli occupation began in Gaza and quickly spread to the West Bank.
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  The election of the left-wing Labour government in June 1992, led by Yitzhak Rabin, triggered a period of frenetic Israeli-Arab peacemaking in the mid-1990s.
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  Many critics of the peace process were silenced on 1 July as jubilant crowds lined the streets of Gaza to cheer Yasser Arafat on his triumphal return to Palestinian territory.
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  The agreement, which was signed at the White House in the presence of U.S. President Bill Clinton, laid the groundwork for a full peace treaty