1. Palestine/Israel Timeline

2. Ancient Palestine
12th century B.C.
Homeland for both Jews and Palestinians

3. 73 A.D
Diaspora
Romans conquer Palestine
Jews scattered
Palestinians stay

4. 1800s Pogroms Racists in Eastern Europe attack Jews, kill, burn
villages, steal property)

5.
Jews allowed to immigrate to Palestine (10%)

6. WWI Israelis: Britain promised to support a Jewish homeland
Palestinians: Britain promised to support Arab demands for independence in exchange for Arab support in WWII

7. 1922
Britain allows Jews to settle in Palestine

8. 1936 Arab Revolt Israelis: OK to divide Palestine into 2 parts
Palestinians: no division of our homeland

9. 1947 (end of WWII)
Demand for Jewish state grew after Hitler kills Jews. Arabs remind Britain of earlier promises.
U.N. decides to split Palestine into 3 states.
Jews agree – Arabs reject plan

11. 1948
Israelis: Israel declares it is an independent country and begins the war of independence. Jewish fighters held off invading Arab armies.
Palestinians: The Catastrophe – more than 700,000 Arabs were driven from their homes.

12. Palestine Israel

13. 1967 (Six Day War)
Israelis: Egypt makes aggressive moves so Israel uses pre-emptive attack into West Bank and Gaza Strip.
Palestinians: Israeli aggressors seize Arab East Jerusalem, West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula

15. 1987 Israelis: Arafat (PLO leader) chooses violence over peacemaking.
Palestinians: After 20 years of Jewish settlement construction, West Bank and Gaza Strip Arabs begin 1st intifada (uprising against Israeli occupation)

16. Jewish settlements

18.
Isrealis: We accepted peace negotiated in Oslo, Norway (exchange of land for promise of peace)
Palestinians: The Arabs get some self-rule, but no progress on Jerusalem, the 1948 refugees, or a Palestinian state

19. Rabin Clinton Arafat (Israel) (America) (Palestine

20. 2000
Isrealis: Offered a generous settlement, Arabs choose violence instead. The 2nd intifada begins.
Palestinians: Israel tried to force a peace agreement and refused to give up Jewish settlements

22. 2005
Jewish settlements removed from Gaza Strip and it is turned over to Palestinians
Palestinians elect Hamas to run their government. It has promised to never negotiate land with the Israelis and will try to destroy Israel.

23. Hamas