Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits Washington D.C. to drum up continued support for Israel's assault on Palestine.
Dozens of Democrats boycotted his speech to Congress.. However, Netanyahu received
numerous standing ovations while calling anti-war demonstrators "Iran's useful idiots" and describing the genocide as a clash between "barbarism and civiliation".
Palestinian-American Congress Woman, Rashida Tlaib, was the only one present who denounced Israel's Human Rights Violations in Palestine
2009: May
The Israeli Knesset and cabinet approve the "Nakba Law" that criminalizes any Israeli citizen who denies Israel is a "democratic and Jewish state." The law targets Palestinians with Israeli citizenship
2009
The Thirty-Second Israeli government forms in the spring, led by Benjamin Netanyahu and his foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman. Labor party leader Ehud Barak rounds out the alliance as defense minister.
U.S. envoy George Mitchell meets with Netanyahu and Lieberman in April. The two Israeli leaders refuse to make any references to a Palestinian state.
Israel attacks Lebanon with U.S. backing. Israel suffers relatively high casualties and is driven out by mid-August without achieving its goals. Hezbollah leads the resistance in Lebanon.
The 1987 Palestinian Intifada erupts. The emergence of a National Unified Leadership, bringing together the Palestinian resistance organizations, creates a situation of dual power for nearly four years.
1987
Hamas is formed. is formed. It is an offshoot of the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood.
1982, June
Israel invades Lebanon with U.S. backing. Three months of relentless bombing leave more than 20,000 Lebanese and Palestinian civilians dead.
1973, October 6th
The 1973 Arab-Israeli War (Yom Kippur War) begins. Egypt and Syria launch a war to regain territories lost to Israel in 1967. No territory changes hands.
1973
The Palestine National Front forms in the West Bank and Gaza Strip.
1967, December
The Palestinian wing of the Arab National Movement together with a number of smaller organizations form the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine
1967, June 5th
The Six-Day War begins. Israel attacks Egypt, Syria and Jordan, quickly tripling in size. The rest of Palestine, as well as the Egyptian Sinai and the Syrian Golan, are occupied. U.S. imperialists are convinced that Israel will be an indispensable ally against Arab nationalism.
1949, January
A ceasefire is reached. Israel occupies 80 percent of Palestine. 750,000 Palestinians are made refugees.
1948, December 11th
U.N. Resolution 194 passes. It states that all refugees must be allowed to return and compensated for damages suffered. Israel continues to defy the resolution to this day.
1948, May 15th
British troops withdraw from Palestine. The state of Israel is proclaimed, known as "al-Nakba" by the Palestinians. Arab League troops intervene on behalf of the Palestinians. By this date, 300,000 Palestinians are already in exile.
1948, April 9th
Nearly all residents of the village of Deir Yassin are are massacred by out by the Irgun, a Zionist paramilitary organization
1948, March 10th
Plan Dalet begins. Palestinian villages not involved in the fighting are attacked by the Haganah and the Irgun.
The British crush the crush the Palestinian uprising that began three and a half years earlier. The British employ extreme violence with the assistance of the Jewish Agency and the main Zionist army, the Haganah.
1936
Starting with a six-month general strike, Palestinians launch an armed rebellion against the British Mandate government in a struggle for independence.
1920
Britain secures a mandate over Palestine in the aftermath of World War I. Riots erupt in Jerusalem.
1917, November
The Bolshevik party leads the victorious Russian Revolution. The new socialist government publishes publishes the secret treaties
signed by the ousted czarist government, including the Sykes-Picot Agreement.
The agreement allocated to the UK control of what is today Palestine and southern Israel
1917, November 2nd
British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour issues the Balfour Declaration, promising the Zionists a "national home" in Palestine.
1916
The Arab Revolt against the Ottoman Empire begins. Britain promises independence to the Arab people, but secretly negotiates the Sykes-Picot Agreement with France.
1913
Arab Congress in Paris demands self-government from the Ottoman Empire. Palestinians begin to organize anti-Zionist groups.
1905
Seventh Zionist Congress votes against a national home for Jews anywhere but in Palestine. Other sites, including Uganda, had been previously considered.
1902
Theodor Herzl, founder of the modern Zionism movement, asks "the architect of apartheid" Cecil Rhodes
for support
1897
The First Zionist Congress is held in Basle, Switzerland. It articulates the goal of creating "for the Jewish people a home in Palestine secured by public law."