The Arab-Israeli Conflict: Cutting Through the Myths & Misinformation

History

The MidEastWeb has an informative Brief History and a Timeline of Palestinian Israeli History and the Israel-Arab Conflict.

We will discuss some of the highlight (perhaps, more appropriately called lowlights) of the conflict. The plan, subject to the desires of the participants, is to include the following:

• Origins of modern Zionism: Ahad Ha'am and Theodore Herzl
• Balfour Declaration
• British Mandate Granted By the League of Nations
• First Partition - Creation of Transjordan
• Arab Riots, Arab Revolt, White Paper
• United Nations Partition Plan
• War of Independence/Nakba
  • Beginning of the Refugee Problem
  • Armistice Agreements
  • Arab Boycott
• Sinai Campaign
• Establishment of Fatah
• Establishment of the PLO
• Six Day War
  • Security Council Resolution 242
• War of Attrition
• Yom Kippur War
  • Security Council Resolution 338
• United Nations "Zionism is Racism" Resolution
• Sadat Visit to Jerusalem
  • Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty
• Lebanese Civil War
• 1982 Lebanon War
  • Establishment of Hizbollah
• First Intifada
  • Establishment of Hamas
• First Gulf War
  • SCUD Attacks
  • Repeal of United Nations "Zionism is Racism" Resolution
  • Madrid Conference
  • Oslo Accords
  • Jordan-Israel Peace Treaty
• Second Intifada
  • Suicide Bombings
  • Kassam Missiles
• Withdrawal from Lebanon
  • Shaaba Farms
  • Katyusha Rockets
• Death of Yassir Arafat
• Withdrawal from Gaza
  • Hamas Takeover of Gaza