PLO Leader Yasser Arafat Calls For a Jihad to Recapture Jerusalem
In a closed-door address at a Johannesburg mosque, PLO chairman Yasser Arafat delivers a brief speech in which he calls for a jihad to liberate Jerusalem.
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Powell Seeks Mideast Cease-Fire
April 11, 2002 U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell calls for an immediate West Bank cease-fire during a press conference in Madrid before he flies to Jordan to meet with King Abdullah II the day before a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon. Powell also says only a negotiated settlement will lead to enduring […]
Suicide Bomber Kills 8 on Bus
April 10, 2002 Eight passengers on a commuter bus are killed and 14 others are wounded in a suicide bombing outside Haifa during the morning rush hour, the second in a string of Palestinian suicide attacks since Israel launched an offensive in the West Bank on March 29. The first attack killed 15 at a […]
Israeli Commandos Raid Beirut
April 9, 1973 Israeli commandos conduct a seaborne night raid on Beirut to kill three leaders in the Palestine Liberation Organization and its Black September wing, the terrorist group responsible for the Munich Olympics massacre in September 1972. The raid is connected to Operation Wrath of God, the Mossad effort launched at Prime Minister Golda […]
Analyses of Palestinian community in 2021
Opinions, survey data, bibliographies and references on internal composition, attitudes, coming elections and general views of coming to terms with Israel April 12, 2021, Ken Stein Congressional Research Service, Palestinian Elections, February 9, 2006, (pp. 21), https://fas.org/sgp/crs/mideast/RL33269.pdf Hussein Agha and Ahmad Samih Khalidi “Time for a New Beginning (for Palestinian communities,” Foreign Affairs, March/April 2021 https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/middle-east/2021-02-16/palestinian-reckoning […]
Sharon Singles Out Arafat After Haifa Bombing
March 31, 2002 Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon declares Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat “the enemy of Israel and the enemy of the free world” in an angry, five-minute, mid-Passover address to the nation after two suicide bombings during the day. A suicide attack by a Hamas bomber from Jenin kills 16 Israelis and injures […]
Israel and Arab-Israeli Conflict Timeline – 1800s to the Present
This timeline includes maps, photos, and hyperlinks to documents and sources also found on the website. There are four dozen hyperlinks age appropriate for teens and older.
Munich Mastermind Assassinated
January 22, 1979 Ali Hassan Salameh, the mastermind behind the Palestinian terrorist attack on the Israeli team at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, dies at a hospital about 30 minutes after a Mossad car bomb is detonated as he drives by on his way to a birthday party at his mother’s apartment in Beirut. […]
Phone Bomb Kills Terrorist Yahya Ayyash
January 5, 1996 Hamas bomb maker Yahya Ayyash is killed in Gaza City when his cellphone explodes during his weekly phone call to his father in the West Bank. It is a targeted assassination by the Shin Bet, Israel’s internal security service, which intercepts the call, confirms Ayyash’s identity and detonates the explosives, instantly killing […]
Barak Resigns as Prime Minister
December 10, 2000 Prime Minister Ehud Barak submits his surprise resignation to President Moshe Katsav amid domestic and international political chaos and calls for a special election for prime minister within 60 days rather than a general Knesset election. The move offers him the chance to seek a popular vote of confidence in a direct […]
Yitzhak Rabin: Israel Leadership in a Lifetime
Yitzhak Rabin’s life story, in the words of former Knesset member Nachman Shai, is “the story of the State of Israel.” He fought to create and defend it in 1948 and 1967, represented it in Washington, led it twice as prime minister, liberated Jews from captivity in 1945 and 1976, and embraced an opportunity for a chance at a longtime peace with the Palestinians in 1993. Rabin possessed essential qualities of an admired leader: credible, authentic, honest, visionary, and strategic. In addition, Rabin was taciturn, incisive, and suffered no fools. For a lifetime, he put the Jewish people on his shoulders as defender and diplomat.
Gen. Avraham Tamir Is Born
November 9, 1924 Avraham Tamir, a military strategic mastermind who rises to the rank of major general, is born. He is one of the first Israeli officials to meet with the PLO’s Yasser Arafat and shows support for the creation of an independent Palestinian state. After serving in the Haganah and the British army in […]