Tag: Palestine

• Know Your History: The Roots of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Part III

  PART I: HERE! PART II: HERE! In 1978, Egyptian President Sadat and Israeli President Begin signed the Camp David Accords which brokered an official peace between the two nations. Israel gave back the territory of the Sinai Peninsula it had gained during the 1967 Six Day War and Israel received Egypt’s diplomatic recognition of their right to…

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  July 31, 2014

  History & Culture

  Arafat, Begin, Camp David Accords, Fatah, Hamas, Israel, Palestine, PLO, roots of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, Sadat, Six Day War

• Know Your History: The Roots of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Part I

  With all the chaos happening between Israel and the Palestinians in Gaza, I thought I would take a few blog posts to break apart what is going on in short and hopefully digestible snippets which will help us all understand the roots of this conflict. Before I get into the first section, let’s just clarify…

  sassevn

  July 22, 2014

  History & Culture

  balfour declaration, gaza, great britain, Israel, Palestine, roots of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, zionist movement

• Know Your History: Munich Massacre 1972

  In what has become one of the greatest tragedies in Olympic history, eleven members of the Israeli Olympic team where killed in a terrorist attack by Palestinian extremists. This event, naturally, overshadowed the games as a whole. Israel retaliated with an assassination policy, targeting those it deemed responsible for the murders. This tragic event happened…

  sassevn

  January 29, 2014

  History & Culture, Know Your History

  1972 Olympics, Israel, Middle East, Munich, Munich massacre, Palestine, Six Days War