PALESTINE

HISORY OF THE CONFLICT

1. THE BRITISH MANDATE

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2. UN PARTITION PLAN
The question of Palestine was brought before the General Assembly by the United Kingdom
almost as soon as the United Nations came into being. An 11-member Special Committee on
Palestine (UNSCOP) was formed at the first special session of the Assembly in April 1947. The
majority of the committee members recommended that Palestine be partitioned into an Arab
State and a Jewish State, with a special international status for the city of J e rusalem under the
administrative authority of the United Nations. 9 2 8 own destiny.
3. JUNE 1967 WAR
The Six-Day War was a brief but bloody conflict fought in
June 1967 between Israel and the Arab states of Egypt, Syria
and Jordan
Following years of diplomatic friction and skirmishes between
Israel and its neighbors, Israel Defense Forces launched
preemptive air strikes that crippled the air forces of Egypt
and its allies. Israel then staged a successful ground
offensive and seized the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip
from Egypt, the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan,
and the Golan Heights from Syria.
The brief war ended with a U.N.-brokered ceasefire, but it
significantly altered the map of the Mideast and gave rise to
lingering geopolitical friction.
4. PALESTINE LIBERATION ARMY
The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) is the national
representative of the Palestinian people. It runs the Palestinian
National Authority (PA), the semi-autonomous government
tasked with managing the Palestinian territories until it makes a
deal with Israel. Fatah, the secular nationalist political party that’s
dominated Palestinian politics for decades, controls the PLO and
PA. In practice, the PLO runs the government in the West Bank
but not in Gaza, which is governed by Hamas. It also conducts
 peace talks on behalf of the Palestinians, but its authority to
implement those deals has in the past been hampered by poor
relations with Hamas.
5. INTIFADA
They were two Palestinian uprising against the Israel state, the first in the
late 1980s and the second in the early 2000s. The first intifada was a largely
spontaneous series of Palestinian demonstrations, nonviolent actions like
mass boycotts and Palestinians refusing to work jobs in Israel, and attacks
(using rocks, Molotov cocktails, and occasionally firearms) on Israelis.
Palestinian fatalities dramatically outpaced Israeli ones, as the Israeli
military responded to the protests and attacks with heavy force
the second, and far bloodier, intifada grew out of the collapse of the peace
process in 2000. Negotiations between Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak
and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat broke down, and the intifada began
shortly afterwards.
Unlike with the first intifada, Palestinian tactics centered on suicide
bombings, rocket attacks, and sniper fire — which Israel met with even
deadlier force. The conflict petered out in 2005, but not before about 1,000
Israelis and 3,200 Palestinians were killed.