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Balfour Declaration
letter from British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Lord Rothschild that made public the British support of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. -
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Jewish Imigration
Jewish population increases in palestine jewish beging buying land, building school and other institutions. -
The Holocaust
In 1933, the Jewish population of Europe stood at over nine million. Most European Jews lived in countries that Nazi Germany would occupy or influence during World War II. By 1945, the Germans and their collaborators killed nearly two out of every three European Jews as part of the "Final Solution," the Nazi policy to murder the Jews of Europe. -
On Novemeber 29, 1947
On November 29, 1947, 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 (UNSCOP). 33 states voted in favor of the resolution and 13 against. 10 states abstained -
al-Nakba / Establishment of Israel
1948 marked the NAKBA of the Palestinian people: the state of Israel was established over the disposession of hundreds of thousands of their life, land, & home -
PLO
The PLO was created in 1964 during a meeting known as the Palestinian ... focus of the massive terrorist campaign by which their reputation was formed. -
Six Day War
srael consistently expressed a desire to negotiate with its neighbors. In an address to the UN General Assembly on October 10, 1960, Foreign Minister Golda Meir challenged Arab leaders to meet with Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion to negotiate a peace settlement. Nasser answered on October 15, saying that Israel was trying to deceive world opinion, and reiterating that his country would never recognize the Jewish State.(1) -
Munich Olympics
The most chilling, frightening and heartbreaking moment at any Olympics came 40 years ago, at the 1972 Munich Olympics, when nearly a dozen Israeli athletes were taken hostage and killed in what was a terrorist attack by any definition of the term. In addition to the athletes and trainers, a German policeman and five Palestinian kidnappers died that September day. -
The Yom Kippur War
The Yom Kippur War started with a surprise Arab attack on Israel on Saturday 6th October 1973. On this day, Egyptian and Syrian military forces launched an attack knowing that the military of Israel would be participating in the religious celebrations associated with Yom Kippur. Therefore, their guard would temporarily be dropped. -
Camp David Accords
After twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David, the Israeli-Egyptian negotiations were concluded by the signing at the White House of two agreements. The first dealt with the future of the Sinai and peace between Israel and Egypt, to be concluded within three months. -
1st Intifada
The Palestine-Israeli conflict was at the root of the Intifada that gave the world a different view of what was happening in the region between the two sides. -
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Madrid Summit
Meeting of the North Atlantic Council (NAC) at the level of the Heads of State and Government and Meeting of Allied and Partner Heads of State and/or Government under the aegis of the Euro-Atlantic Partnership Council (EAPC). -
2nd Intifada
he economy of the West Bank and Gaza was ruined by Israel incursions and security measures, and by diversion of Palestinian infrastructure and resources to arms purchases and manufacture. The Israeli security fence (or Separation Barrier) erected in order to stop terror attacks has disrupted Palestinian life in the West bank, and security barriers in place throughout the West Bank,
