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Below is a recap of all 31 topics and events we cover in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict series. Each individual topic is linked. You can go forwards and backwards within the series for, like the recap below, it is structured in rough chronological order. There are a few exceptions. Israeli-Palestinian Conflict...
As of July 2009, about 305,000 Israelis lived in 121 settlements in the West Bank. The 2.4 million West Bank Palestinians (according to Palestinian evaluations) live primarily in four blocs centered in Hebron, Ramallah, Nablus, and Jericho. “Palestine 194” In 2011, the PLO submitted an application for membership of Palestine...
Israeli Disengagement The Battle of Gaza could not happen without it. 2005 saw the withdrawal of the Israeli army from Gaza, and the dismantling of all Israeli settlements in the Gaza Strip. Four small settlements in the northern West Bank were also evacuated. The disengagement was proposed by Israeli Prime Minister...
Camp David Summit The 2000 Camp David Summit was a meeting at Camp David between the United States, Israel, and the Palestinian Authority from July 11 through July 25, 2000. It was an effort to end the Israeli–Palestinian conflict that ended without agreement but did influence Yasser Arafat and the...
Independent Palestine The Intifada caught the PLO by surprise and the leadership abroad could only indirectly influence the events. A new local leadership emerged, the Unified National Leadership of the Uprising (UNLU), comprising many leading Palestinian factions. After King Hussein of Jordan proclaimed the administrative and legal separation of the...
In 1982, the PLO relocated to Tunis, Tunisia after it was driven out of Lebanon by Israel during Israel’s six-month invasion of Lebanon. Following massive raids by Israeli forces in Beirut, it is estimated that 8,000 PLO fighters evacuated the city and dispersed. In 1985, Israeli Air Force F-15s bombed the...
The 1982 Lebanon War It began June 6, 1982, when the Israel Defense Forces invaded southern Lebanon after an assassination attempt of Shlomo Argov, their ambassador to the United Kingdom. This justification for the Lebanon invasion by Israel has been criticized given the 1974 split between the Palestinian group responsible...
Diplomacy After the Venice Convention, opposition to Yasser Arafat was fierce not only among radical Arab groups, but also among many on the Israeli right who felt that even if the PLO accepted UN Security Council Resolution 242 and recognized Israel’s right to exist, Israel should never negotiate with the...
Venice Declaration Palestinians saw the Camp David Accords as a blow to their aspirations to self-determination. The Venice Declaration (also known as the Declaration of the Venice Summit) was an agreement issued by the nine-member economic committee of the European Economic Committee (Belgium, Italy, France, West Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Denmark,...
Palestinian Right of Return It is the political position or principle asserting that Palestinian refugees, both first-generation refugees (c. 30 to 50,000 people as of 2012) and their descendants (c. 5 million people as of 2012), have a right to return, and a right to the property they themselves or...