In May of 1948 based on a UN resolution that determined the division of Palestine into 2 states the Jews declared their independence, creating the modern state of Israel. But the very next day the new country was invaded by Iraq, Lebanon, Egypt and Syria.
The Israelis resisted and expanded the territory.
In 1967, after several threats and demonstrations of military force in Egypt, Israel flared a preventive attack and began the war of 6 days. After that, Israel had taken the Gaza Strip, the Sinai peninsula in the West Bank area where Jerusalem is, the hills of Golan, the Jordan River and the source of the source of most of the water consumed in the Holy Land.
In 1973, a surprise attack in Ianckpur (day of forgiveness for the Jews), Syria and Egypt failed in an attempt to regain the territories lost.
Five years later, in 1978, the Egyptians have signed a historic agreement with the Israelis, and the act gave the Nobel Peace Prize to the President of Egypt and the then Israeli Prime Minister.
Following, in 1982, Israel invaded Lebanon and the objective of destroying Palestinian terrorist outbreaks. The Army of Israel then forced the terrorist Arafat to flee Lebanon. During ocuipação, Christian militia allied with Israel massacred 800 Palestinians refugees.
Israel withdrew the last troops from South in 2000, but 6 years later, in 2006, caused by the new offensive launched followed with rocket attacks launched by the group Resbola.
When the first between fairy, the survey, started in 1987 in the Palestinian territories, Arafat commanded the Organization for the Liberation of Palestine, a year later, Arafat renounced terrorism and started to negotiate peace. The first loved fairy last 6 years and kill 2,000 people, and that the revolt was born Hamas.
In 1993, a new peace agreement, and the following year, Arafat, the then Prime Minister Isaac Rabin of Israel and Minister of Foreign Chimon Peres divide the Nobel peace. Israel started to return the occupied territories, when a radical Israeli Isac assassinated Rabin in November 1995.
In 2000, the then President Bil Clinton was pressure, but Arafat rejected the proposal which gave the Palestinians control of 95% of the occupied territories. Two months later, Ariel Sharon who led the opposition in Israel made a visit to the Arab part of Jerusalem where the mosque is Alaxa for the Palestinians was a provocation and a new beginning between fairy.
Since then until the end of November 2008 (from 2000 to November 2008), according to the Organization for Human Rights B'TSELEM the conflict killed 4,897 Palestinians, 580 Israelis and 64 foreigners.
Internal conflicts between factions killed more 594 Palestinians.
In June 2008, Israel and Hamas hit a 6-month ceasefire, negotiated by Egypt. But since November accused each other of flouting the agreement, and Hamas announced that not renewing the ceasefire, with rocket attacks against Israel if Israeli intencificaram and the government made several warnings before launching the offensive, considered by many a disproportionate response to attacks with rockets of Hamas.
The new series of attacks came two months of the elections in Israel and at the time that the growing expectation of resumption of negotiations with procimidade the possession of the new American President.
And now with the increase of violence as is the peace process in the Middle East?
Middle East needs peace.....
acho q somos tao culpados quanto quem faz as guerras...or naum fazermos nada nos tornamos cumplices....
neomenezes24 1 year ago
@neomenezes24 Como assim?O que nós podemos fazer em relação a isso?
tomasheavymetal 1 year ago