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Egypt and Israel Sign a Peace Agreement
Egypt became the first Arab Country to recognize Israel, with that being said Egypt then signed a peace treaty with Israel. The Egyptian president realized that continuing the war with Israel was harming on their economy and decided to end the whole rivalry. -
Lebanon War
The Lebanon War was started when Lebanon attacked multiple communities in Northern Israel, then northern Israel immediately responded and attacked PLO militants that were located in Lebanon. If you didn't know, Israel succeeded in taking away the PLO, and since this happened Israel got in more trouble, and started a Lebanese civil war. -
The First Intifada
Palestinians and West Bank engaged in a intifada, which is basically a uprising rebellion;Palestinians attacked Israelis with weapons, and firearms supplied by the PLO. Many people in Israel killed themselves because of the uprising, and bombings that Palestinians did. But even though Israel was being attacked, they still took action and used military force to contain the violence. This was still going on until the Oslo Accords were signed in 1993. -
The Oslo Accords
Set of agreements when Israel and the PLO signed a declaration of principles, led to the creations of Palestinian authority. Achieving a peace treaty based on United Nations. For the first time, Israel formally recognized the PLO as the representative of Palestinian. The accords were intended to be an interim agreement that would eventually lead to a permanent settlement with Israel and Palestine. -
Israel and Jordan Sign a Peace Treaty
Between Egypt and Israel, United States led a difficult but achieving diplomatic process to get Israel and Egypt peaceful among each other. Jordan became the 2nd Arab Country to recognize Israel and tourism,cultural exchanges, among the two nations went up as soon as they signed a peace treaty. -
The Camp David Summit
President Bill Clinton had Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian president Yasser Ararat at Camp David. It was Bill Clinton's first major attempt to try to negotiate with both of the 2 nations with a compromise. But, Ararat refused, and felt like it wasn't enough. Bill Clinton wanted the two states to live side by side in leave, but since they're rivalries neither of them accepted it. -
The Second Intifada
The Israeli General Ariel Sharon visited the Jewish Temple Mount, many Palestinians thought that Sharon's visit was provocative and begin to riot. Ariel Sharon's visit begin the 2nd intifada, the conflict caused great bombshells on both sides and Israelis were were terroized, because many of the Israelis started sucked bombings, and targeted hundreds of civilians. -
Arab Peace Initiative Is Proposed
Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia prosed a peace initiative, that was read over by the arab league. It offered Israel in return for Israeli withdrawal from all territories captured in the 1967 War. -
Israel Begins Constructing a Security Barrier
Was a wall built to stop terrorists, from coming into Israel. It was also criticized because apparently it was accused of blocking Palestinians from their land. The benefits of having the security barrier was less suicide bombings. The security barrier resembled the security fence, the one but in 1996 that separated the Gaza Strip from Israel. -
The Roadmap For Peace Is Proposed
was a plan to resolve the Israeli Palestinian conflict proposed by the Quartet on the Middle East: the United States, the European Union,Russia and the United Nations. -
Israel Disengages from Gaza
Ariel Sharon the prime minister, began making a process leading Israel to withdraw the gaza strip, and the west bank, this was apart of the separation of palestinian territories. -
Hamas is Elected
Hamas won the election because many palestinians saw the last government as corrupt. Hamas calls for the destruction of Israel and for the killing of Jews.As a result of the
election, many Western nations imposed sanctions and suspended aid to the Palestinian Authority that they declared would be lifted -
The 2006 Lebanon War
Hezbollah terrorists crossed the border from Lebanon into Israel and attacked a group of Israeli soldiers patrolling the border, after that they continued attacking shooting out bombs and rockets into the Israeli town. -
The Battle Of Gaza
Between Hamas and the PLO there were fueds. Ever since Hamas, won the election he had full power, so since they were fueding, he decided to attack Fatah members throught Gaza.Western sanctions to the Palestinian Authority were lifted after the Hamas government was dissolved. They came to a compromise where Hamas controls Gaza and the Palestinian Authority controls the West Bank. -
Annapolis Conference
Was a middle east conference, where the US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice organized a conference between Israel and the Palestinian Authority’s Fatah leaders. It was held so both of the 2 leaders could make an agreement, but as you know they still couldn't make an agreement and the conflict still goes on. -
The Gaza War 2008-2009
The war started on December 27th,2008 and ended on January 18th,2009.Israel attacked Hamas targets in Gaza in order to stop rocket attacks on southern Israel and to disrupt terrorist infrastructure and weapons smuggling. Hundreds of militants were killed from this war,many buildings and towns were also damaged. -
Gaza Flotilla Incident
Israel Defense Forces naval forces intercepted six ships attempting to break the naval blockade of the Gaza Strip. Israel already informed the ships that they couldn't pass the Gaza strip, but they would be sent to Israeli for there cargo to be inspected. The sailers refused, and they all got in a huge fight, where the sailers were being hit with. -
The Arab Spring
The Arab Spring was basically a bunch of protests, like if they didn't agree with the government, or politics. So the people protest about it until one or more people resign, or make a change.
