Conflicts in the middle east
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Golda Meir
Prime minister of Israeli.
Camp David Accords
Ended 30 years of hostilities between Egypt and Israel and became the first signed agreement between Israel and an Arab country.
Intifada
Attacks on Israel , rock throwing, shootings, and use of explosives.
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
Pushed for the formation of an Arab Palestinian state that would include all of Israel.
Yasir Arafat
Chairmen of PLO.
Menachem Begin
Israeli's prime minister.
Oslo Peace Accords
Israel agreed to grant the Palestinians self-rule in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
Yitzhak Rabin
Prime minister of Israel
Israel and Arad States in Conflict
The new nation of Isreal got a hostile greeting from its neighbors. The day after it proclaimed itself a state, six Islamic states Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Saudi, Arabia, and Syria invaded Isreal. The first of many Arab-Israeli wars, this one ended within months in a victory for Israel. Full scale war broke out again in 1956, 1967, and 1973. Arab governments forced out 700,000 Jews living in Arab lands.
Efforts at Peace
In November 1977, just four years after the Yom KIppur war, Anwar Sadat stunned the world by extending a hand to Isreal. No Arad country up to thid point had recognized Isreal's right to exist. In a dramatic gesture, Sadat went before the knesset, the Isreali parliament, and invited enemies to join in a quest for peace.
Peace Slips Away
In 1999, the slow and diffiult peace negotiations between Isreal and the Palestintians semmed to get a boost. U.S. president Bill Clinton hosted a 15 day summit meeting at Camp David between Ehud Barak and Yasir Arafat. Arafat rejected American and Isreali proposals and offered no alternatives, so the peace process once again stalled. Palestinians attacked Isreali soldiers, and used suicide bombers against them too.
The Six-Day War Begins (1967)