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(New York Times) 1930s- Palestinians' failed attempt of rebelling against Britain http://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/08/weekinreview/08erlanger-ART.html?n=Top/Reference/Times%20Topics/People/A/Arafat,%20Yasir&_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1196875782-4/ci+tWzD+zXVI4PvMCZeg	Britain Exerted influence as a colonial power in the middle east and India. In the early 1900s Britain gained control of Palestine and by 1920 had established a Jewish homeland. The following decades are characterized by a continuation of violence and a series of failed attempts at making peace.
	David Ben-Gurion
	Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) established in 1964
Camp David Accords, September 17, 1978 http://concise.britannica.com/ebc/art-74951/Egyptian-President-Anwar-el-Sadat-US-President-Jimmy-Carter-and	Egyptian President Anwar el-Sadat US President Jimmy Carter Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin
Oslo Accords, September 13, 1993 http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/717/_profile.htm	from left to right: Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin US President Bill Clinton Palestinian Yassar Arafat
http://www.historama.com/about_us.html	Israeli Defense Force (IDF)
(New York Times) Annapolis Peace Conference: November 2007	From left to right: Palestinian Authority Leader, Mahmoud Abbas Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Olmert US President George Bush