| Event | Year |
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| Arab-Israel peace talks in Madrid and Washington | |
| Israel reoccupies towns in West Bank and Gaza and begins construction on a security fence between the WB and Israel; UN Security Council passes a resolution demanding that Israel w | |
| 'Black September' in Jordan; death of Nasser | |
| Suez Crisis | |
| Iraq expelled from Kuwait in Gulf War | |
| Death of Jordan's King Hussein; Labor leader Barak elected Israeli PM | |
| Israeli forces invade Lebanon | |
| Israel cedes 80 percent of West Bank town of Hebron to Palestinians | |
| Military disengagement accords between Israel and Egypt and Syria | |
| | Event | Year |
|---|
| Likud leader Netanyahu elected PM after terrorist bombings in Israeli cities undermines support for Peres, Rabin's labor successor | |
| Iraq invades Kuwait; UN Security Council votes sanctions | |
| Balfour Declaration | |
| Fighting between Arabs and Jews in Palestine; British mandate ends; David Ben-Gurion proclaims the state of Israel | |
| British White Paper calls for independent Palestine within 10 years | |
| MacMahon-Sharif Hussein agreements; Arab revolt against Turks | |
| War between Israel and the Arab League | |
| Sadat assassinated in Cairo | |
| Ariel Sharon elected Israeli PM | |
| | Event | Year |
|---|
| Antimonarchical revolt in Iraq; crisis in Jordan and Lebanon; American Marines land in Beirut | |
| War of Attrition | |
| The US, EU, Russia, and the UN release the three-phase 'Road map' calling for an independent Palestinian state and full peace by 2005; Arafat appoints Mahmoud Abbas PM; Abbas, Shar | |
| Soviet-Egyptian arms deal concluded; Baghdad Pact created with Great Britain, Iran, Iraq, Turkey, and Pakistan as members | |
| Publication of Herzl's 'The Jewish State'; First World Zionist Congress meets | |
| Palestinian Arab revolt against British authority; Peel Commission proposal rejected by Arabs and accepted by Jews | |
| Carter Doctrine; Iraqi invasion of Iran launches Iran-Iraq War | |
| US brokers Israeli-PLO Wye River Accords, which cede additional 13 percent of West Bank to Palestinians; US President Clinton addresses Palestinian Assembly in Gaza | |
| Jordanian-Israeli peace treaty signed in Washington; Israeli-PLO agreement for Palestinian control over Gaza and Jericho | |
| | Event | Year |
|---|
| Formation of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) | |
| Sinai Agreement between Israel and Egypt permits reopening of Suez Canal | |
| Sharon is incapacitated as a result of a major stroke; Hamas wins Palestinian election; Ehud Olmert and new Kadima Party come first in Israeli elections | |
| Climax of Iranian revolution; Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty signed in Washington; American embas | |
| Britain refers Palestine dispute to UN; UN partition plan rejected by Arabs and accepted by Jews | |
| EIsenhower Doctrine | |
| Yom Kippur War | |
| Beginning of Palestinian uprising (intifada) in Gaza Strip and West Bank | |
| Camp David negotiations fail; Second Intifada begins | |
| | Event | Year |
|---|
| Great Britain given the Palestine Mandate by the League of Nations | |
| Death of Arafat; Abbas becomes president of PA | |
| Egypt's Sadat becomes first Arab head of state to recognize Israel and to address Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem | |
| Arab oil imbargo | |
| Jordan's King Hussein renounces Jordanian sovereignty over West Bank; PLO declares independent Palestinian states on West Bank and Gaza | |
| Camp David Summit with Carter, Begin, and Sadat | |
| Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, and Yemen create the Arab League | |
| Sykes-Picot agreement | |
| Six Day War: Israel occupies the Sinai, Gaza, West Bank, and the Golan Heights; adoption of UN Resolution 242 | |
| | Event | Year |
|---|
| Multinational peacekeeping force arrives in Beirut; attacks against American embassy and Marine barracks | |
| Oslo negotiations and Declaration of Principles between Israel and the PLO | |
| Rabin assassinated in Tel Aviv | |
| Formation of Arab High Committee | |
| Israel admitted to the United Nations | |
| Free Officer revolt led by Gamal Abdel Nasser in Egypt | |
| Israel completes unilateral withdrawal from Gaza and continues construction of security fence despite protests that it takes Palestinian land | |
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