Palestine/Israel Timeline

Ancient Palestine

• 12th century B.C.

• Homeland for both Jews and Palestinians

73 A.D. - 1500

• Diaspora• Romans

conquer Palestine

• Jews scattered• Palestinians

stay

1800s

Pogroms

Racists in

Eastern Europe

attack Jews,

kill, burn

villages, steal property)

1882 - 1914

• Jews allowed to immigrate to Palestine (10%)

WWI

• Israelis: Britain promised to support a Jewish homeland

• Palestinians: Britain promised to support Arab demands for independence in exchange for Arab support in WWII

1922

• Britain allows Jews to settle in Palestine

1936 Arab Revolt

• Israelis: OK to divide Palestine into 2 parts

• Palestinians: no division of our homeland

1947 (end of WWII)

• Demand for Jewish state grew after Hitler kills Jews. Arabs remind Britain of earlier promises.

• U.N. decides to split Palestine into 3 states.

• Jews agree – Arabs reject plan

1948

• Israelis: Israel declares it is an independent country and begins the war of independence. Jewish fighters held off invading Arab armies.

• Palestinians: The Catastrophe – more than 700,000 Arabs were driven from their homes.

Palestine Israel

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1967 (Six Day War)

• Israelis: Egypt makes aggressive moves so Israel uses pre-emptive attack into West Bank and Gaza Strip.

• Palestinians: Israeli aggressors seize Arab East Jerusalem, West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula

1987

• Israelis: Arafat (PLO leader) chooses violence over peacemaking.

• Palestinians: After 20 years of Jewish settlement construction, West Bank and Gaza Strip Arabs begin 1st intifada (uprising against Israeli occupation)

Jewish settlements

1993 - 1995

• Isrealis: We accepted peace negotiated in Oslo, Norway (exchange of land for promise of peace)

• Palestinians: The Arabs get some self-rule, but no progress on Jerusalem, the 1948 refugees, or a Palestinian state

Rabin Clinton Arafat(Israel) (America) (Palestine

2000

• Isrealis: Offered a generous settlement, Arabs choose violence instead. The 2nd intifada begins.

• Palestinians: Israel tried to force a peace agreement and refused to give up Jewish settlements

2005

• Jewish settlements removed from Gaza Strip and it is turned over to Palestinians

• Palestinians elect Hamas to run their government. It has promised to never negotiate land with the Israelis and will try to destroy Israel.

Hamas