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Israel: Israel was promised land by the British. The land they were promised was in Palestine, which was significant because Jerusalem was in Palestine---Jerusalem is the holy land within the Jewish religion.

Palestinian: Palestinians were angry that Israel wanted their land because Palestine never agreed to share or have their land taken by Israel.

The british promise of land to the zionists

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A proposal to split mandatory Palestine into two independent states (Israel and Palestine)

Palestine rejects and wants all its land back
Israel accepts and wants to share the land

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Israel: Israelis view this war as a war of independence. It was a war of independence for Israel because this was their first time getting a large amount of land.

Palestine: Palestine lost all land including the west bank and Gaza strip and 750,000 out of 1.2 million Arabs fled or got kicked out. This event was known as Al-Nakba or the Catastrophe.

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Israel accepts to share the land and Palestine rejects it.
Arabs declare war on Israel.

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Seeing Egypt and prime minister Nasser as a communist threat, the US and the British refused to fund a dam for Egypt. This lead Nasser to Nationalize the suez canal and bring about a brief "war".

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-Palestine liberation organization = PLO
Formed as a way to organize Palestinian groups following losing all territory in the first Arab-Israeli war.

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Battles between Syria and Israel and Egypt, they blocked  Israel (again) from using the red sea.
Israel defeats Arab forces in an all out (mostly) air fought war. Israel gained the west bank and Gaza strip, Golan heights, and Sinai Peninsula.

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A terrorist group (Black September) held the Israeli Olympic team hostage and said they would kill the Israeli team one by one if they didn't release 200 revolutionary prisoners. Everything was filmed on TV and 9 were killed at the airport and 2 in their rooms (Israel team).

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Knowing Israelis would be observing Yom Kippur, Egypt and Syria attacked while Israels military was gone.
Supported by the united states, Israel eventually mobilized their military and won this brief war.

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Palestinian civilians revolting against Israel and began a mass uprising (armed with stones) and organized strikes against Israeli businesses.

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there was a missing element from an Israel-Palestine agreement. Palestine wanted Israel to leave the west bank and Gaza strip and end the decade-long conflict.

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Israel withdraws all of its people/settlements from the Gaza strip. Less than 1% of Gaza's population was Israelis/Jews.
This might be a result of the second Intifada (revolt) and following through on the Oslo accords.