A Landmark Event: Shaping the Border along the West Bank

A Security Fence or a Wall?


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     A Timeline of the Major Events Building Towards Israel's Decision to Build the Security Fence

                                                                                                             

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Major Events
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The UN Partition Plan- 1947
The Independence War- 1948-49
Arab Refugees 1948

Arab Refugees 1949-1967


Israeli Response to Terror 1951-1966






Camp David, West Bank and Gaza Strip


Palestinian Refugees 1989

Intifada 1992
Enclaves for Peace 1993


Security Fence
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Zionism- Started by European Jews



Zionists build colonies in Palestine







WWI
Britain gained control of Palestine- supported by Arthur J Balfour's proposal for a "national home" for the Jews
Britain establishes Jewish homeland- first riots

Jews and Arabs commit terrorist attacks



In response to Nazism, Jewish immigration increases from 5,000 to 65,000.
WWII Jewish refuegees sweep into Palestine- Arab League forms
UN voted for separate Arab and Jewish states, the Jewish one to be 55% of the land west of the Jordan River
David Ben-Gurion declared Israel a State- Independence War
Followed by the creation of the 1949 Armistice Line, or Green Line


Sinai War



Six-Day War
Arafat creates the Palestine Liberation Organizaiton (PLO)
Jordan expelled PLO- PLO arrived in Lebanon
Black September killed Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympic Games
Timeline: Yom Kippur War- started by Egypt and Syria
Camp David Accords (Carter, Begin, and Sadat)

War in Lebanon- Israel attacked Lebanon
Intifada- Palestinian uprisings against Israel


Oslo Accords, Arafat, Rabin, and Clinton
West Bank
town Hebron returned to Palestinian control
Security Fence- LANDMARK EVENT
Annapolis Peace Conference
 2000s

current crises