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1 ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT

2 THE FOUNDING OF ISRAEL After WWII (1945), thousands of Jewish refugees left Europe for Palestine (Most survivors of concentration camps) Need for a homeland, wanted to set up Jewish state with early settlers Palestine was a mandate of Britain 1947: Palestine divided into a Jewish state and an Arab state.

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4 1947-48: Arab-Israeli War: Arab nations declared war on Israel because afraid of western dominance.
Britain withdrew and turned area over to UN. 1948: Israel formed. Fighting continued

5 Egypt, Jordan, Syria, Iraq, and Lebanon sent military forces against Israel
Israel divided Arab forces and drove more than 500,000 Arabs out of Palestine into refugee camps. 1949: Armistice (stop fighting) Agreements: Israel gained land, Jordan took the rest of Arab Palestine, Egypt occupied the Gaza Strip

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7 CONFLICT CONTINUES 1967: (Six Day War) Israel seized Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip from Egypt, Golan Heights from Syria, West Bank from Jordan, and East Jerusalem from the Arabs. 1973: Syria and Egypt attacked Israel, UN negotiated a cease-fire. Israel backed by United States, and Arab nations backed by the Soviet Union.

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9 1964: Palestinian leaders formed PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization) hoping to bring about the destruction of Israel. Leader: Yasser Arafat. 1987: Palestinians began a mass uprising, intifada (“the shaking”): -Attacked Israeli soldiers and civilians - Israeli’s imprisoned or exported Palestinians

10 YASSER ARAFAT ( )

11 PEACE EFFORTS 1977: Egyptian President, Anwar Sadat, agreed to peace talks with Israel. 1979: Egypt and Israel signed a peace treaty Persian Gulf War and collapse of Soviet Union led to new peace efforts

12 ANWAR SADAT ( )

13 1993 (Gaza-Jericho Agreement): PLO agreed to give up attacks on Israel
Israel withdrew its forces from parts of the occupied territory and allowed limited self-rule in Gaza as well as Jericho, a town in the West Bank Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Fighting and hope for compromises continue today.

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