ARAB-ISRAELI CONFICT
TIMELINES
1917-1945
1896 THEODRO HERZL wrote ‘THE JEWISH STATE’
Pre 1917 : Break up of Ottoman Empire
1908 Young Turk movement revolution so evdeicne of weakening Ottoman Empire.
1914-1918: World War 1
1915-1916: MacMahon-Hussein Correspondence
1916: Sykes-Picot Agreements
1916 June Arab Revolt
1917 Balfour Declaration
1917: General Allenby leads British occupation of Jerusalem
1917 Russian Revolution increased immigration
1918 Collapse of the Ottoman Empire
1919: King Crane Commission and Versailles Peace Conference
1920 San Remo Conference
1920 France handed the Mandate in Syria and Lebanon, Britain handed the mandate in Palestine and
Iraq
1920 Arab Executive formed to fight Zionism
1921: Haganah created
1921 Disturbances in Jaffa (Jaffa Riots)
1922 Churchill White Paper
1922 Increase in Jewish immigration
1929: Economic crisis
1929 Wailing Wall riots
1930 Jewish immigration doubles
1931 : Irgun group created.
1933: Hitler rises to power and so leads to great increase of Jewish immigration in Palestine
1935: The preparations for the Arab Revolts
1935: Aladi al-Quassan new leader of the Arabs
1935: Aladi al-Quassan killed by British soldiers
1936-39 Great Arab Revolt
1937: Peel Report – to Partition Palestine
1939 White Paper 5rejected by both Arabs and Jews)
1939-1945 World War 2
1940 : 30% of population in Palestine is Jewish
1942: Biltmore Programme
1945: Holocaust is discovered
1945 Lehi and Haganah and Irgun form United Resistance
1946 King David Hotel Bombed (8)
1947 GB declares it will withdraw the Mandate in 1 year’s time
1947 April Deir Yassin massacre
1947 2 British soliders kidnapped by Irgun
1947 July: GB refuses Exodus (boatfuml of Jexwish refugees)
1947: 29 November UN vote for Partition of Palestine
1948 May 15th GB withdraws
1948-1949 1st Arab Israeli War