Palestine has always had a small Jewish Community, known as the old Yishuv, consisting of Jews who had migrated over the centuries. They lived mainly in Jerusalem, Safed, Tiberias, and Hebron.
(1882) First Aliyah - From 1882 to 1904, Jews from Eastern Europe known as the New Yishuv, moved to Ottoman Palestine to build small settlements, forming traded unions and councils to purchase land from Palestinians.
(1897) Establishment of the world Zionist Organization - In 1897 Theodore Herzl held the first Zionist World Congress in Switzerland, where the world Zionist Organization was established, with its Basel Program manifesto, seeking to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
1900
(1904) The second Aliyah - 35,000 Jews, mostly from Russia, with some from Yemen, move to Palestine.
(1909) Formation of Hashamor - Hashamor was formed in 1909 out of smaller Jewish Militias, such as the Bar-Giora group, to defend the settlements.
1920s
(1917) Balfour Declaration - In 1917 the British Government issued the Balford declaration, stating its support for the establishment of a Jewish state in Palestine. The declaration was sent by Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Lord Rothschild to be transmitted to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland, UK affiliate of the WZO.
(1920) Britain takes Palestine - In 1920 Britain took over Palestine from the Ottoman empire after a mandate by the League of Nations, requiring Britain put into effect the Balfour declaration.
Formation of Haganah - The Palestine Zionist Executive, later Jewish Agency, would form the Haganah Militia, made up of former Hashamor recruits, and work with Irgun against the British mandate.
(1929) Jewish Agency established - The Palestine office was established as the operational wing of the world Zionist organization in Ottoman Palestine. It was designated as the Palestine office in 1929 and provided for by the League of Nations per Britain's promise of a Jewish State. Future Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion was selected as its chairman.
1930s
(1931) Formation of the Irgun - The Irgun splintered from Haganah, as a Militia with more radical methods.
(1936) Arab Revolt - During the Arab revolt of 1936 the British fought Palestinian rebels with the help of Jewish auxiliary police 6,000, while aid from the Zionist Militia Irgun, who had ceased anti British activity. After the conflict British confiscated 13,200 firearms from Arabs and 521 weapons from Jews.
(1939) White Papers - Britain Passes the White Papers, implementing strict limits on Jewish Migration to Palestine, allowing only 75,000 migrants over 5 years.
Aliyah Bet - In response to the White Paper, Haganah built up the Palmach, its naval wing, to illegally emigrate approximately 100,000 Jews to Palestine in over one hundred ships. Upon being turned back by the British numerous ships would be sabotaged by the Zionists. Irgun's leader, Ze'ev Jabotinsky, then exiled to Europe, recruits and trains cells in Poland to evacuate 1.5 million Jews into Palestine Illegally. With the cooperation of fellow Irgun leader in Palestine, Avraham Stern, the two recruit 40,000 militants and smuggle weapons to Palestine.
1940s
(1940) Formation of Lehi - Avraham Stern splits from Irgun to form Lehi, (Stern Gang) advocating for the complete annihilation of Palestinians.
SS Patria Bombing - Haganah blew up a British ship full of Jewish refugees in the port of Haifa to stop them from being deported back to Europe.
(1944) Irgun declares war on the British Mandate - In 1944 Irgun's new leader Menachem Begin, future Israel prime minister, declared an open rebellion against the British mandate.
Assassination of Lord Moyne - In response to the White Papers, Lehi gunned down Lord Moyne, the British Minister of State in the Middle East. The assassination was plotted by future Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Shamir.
(1945) The Sonneborn Group - On July 1, 1945, David Ben-Gurion asked a small gathering of American-Jewish activists at Millionaire oil executive, Rudolf Sonneborn's apartment to send supplies to the Jewish community and its military force, the Haganah. The group became a secretive, nationwide organization led by Sonnenborn, Materials for Israel, also known as the Sonneborn Institute, which covered as a charity for Holocaust survivors.
(1946) Operation Agatha - During Operation Agatha, (Black Sabbath) the British arrested Zionist militants, obtaining documents proving that the Jewish Agency, David Ben-Gurion and the Haganah were working with Lehi and Irgun.
King David Hotel Bombing - In response to Operation Agatha, under orders from Manacham Begin, Irgun Bombed the British headquarters in the King David Hotel, killing 91 people. The attack was surpassed by the Oklahoma city bombing in 1995.
British Embassy bombing - In 1946, Irgun bombed the British Embassy in Rome, injuring two people.
(1947) Lehi truck bombing - In 1947, Lehi bombed the British police station in Haifa, killing 4 and injuring 142.
Collonial Club bombing - In 1947, Lehi bombed the British Colonial Club, a London recreational facility for soldiers and students.
The Sergeants affair - When three Irgun militants were set to be executed, Irgun kidnapped two British army sergeants and threatened to hang them. The two sergeants were hanged, with their bodies being booby trapped, injuring a British officer.
UN patrician plan - Britain plans to leave Palestine on the 14th of May, with the UN splits the land between Israel and Palestine 56.5 to 43.5.
Under Secretary of State Robert Lovevit reported to the White House that the American delegation's work was being seriously impeded by high pressure of bribes and threats by Jewish groups. Indian Prime Minister Nehru said the Zionist had tried to bribe India with millions and at the same time his sister, Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit the Indian ambassador to the UN had received daily warnings that her life was in danger unless she voted right. Liberia's ambassador to the United States, complained that the US delegation threatened aid cuts if they didn't get in line behind Israel. And shortly before the vote, Bernard Baruch, the American ambassador to the UN Atomic Energy Commission, told the French delegation that if they failed to vote in the Zionists favor, the US would withhold reconstruction aid the French badly needed to rebuild their country in the wake of the Second World War.
Harry Truman assassination attempt - In 1947, the UN was gearing up to vote on the United Nations plan for the partition of Palestine. Harry Truman, was trying to strike a diplomatic balance to prevent war with the Soviets or American military involvement in the Middle East. Truman: ''I don't think I ever had as much pressure and propaganda aimed at the White House as I had in this instance. The persistence of a few of the extreme Zionist leaders actuated by political motives and engaging in political threats disturbed and annoyed me.''
According to President Truman's daughter, who published a biography of her father, in 1947, the Zionist terrorist group Lehi, (Stern Gang) had mailed President Truman a series of letter bombs rigged to explode when the envelopes were opened. The Secret Service diffused the bombs, and the entire event was covered up.
1948 - On January 3rd, 1948, New York police discovered 65,000 + pounds of TNT at a Jersey City pier, hidden in crates marked as “used machinery.” The explosives were intended for shipment to Tel Aviv aboard the freighter Executor. The discovery occurred after a crate accidentally broke open during loading, revealing cans labeled “TNT, Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army.” Authorities impounded the ship and removed the TNT to a safe location. Police found related equipment in an Upper Manhattan warehouse but could not locate the individuals linked to the shipment. Officials stated the TNT could destroy six cities the size of Jersey City. Like the size of Israel/Palestine. What a coincidence…
Plan Dalet - On the 10th of March Ben Gurion and Haganah outline Plan Dalet, a blueprint for targeting Palestinian population centers in the Jewish Partition state, and enacting a policy of forced depopulation and destruction, before May 14th.
(1948) The Nakba - By the 15th of May, 750,000 Palestinians have been displaced from the Israeli portion of the UN's Partition plan.
Semiramis Hotel Bombing - In 1948, Haganah bombed the Christian-owned Semiramis Hotel, killing 26.
Sa'Sa Massacre - During the 1948 Palestine war, two massacres were perpetrated by Haganah in the Palestinian village of Sa'sa'. The first occurred on the night of 14-15 February 1948, when Palmach, Haganah's elite unit forces, attacked the village killing approximately 60 people. The second massacre occurred on 30 October 1948 when the village was conquered by the Israeli military as part of Operation Hiram.
Saf'Saf Massacre - After the IDF took the village of Saf'Saf in Galalee 50–70 villagers were killed. Evidence suggests that 52 men had their hands tied, were shot and killed, before being buried in a pit. Several women reported allegations of rape by the IDF, including the rape and murder of a 14-year-old girl. At least two internal inquiries were initiated during 1948–49 by the IDF, but their reports remain classified.
Deir Yassin Massacre - Irgun and Lehi join jointly commit the Deir Yasin Massacre. A letter written by Albert Einstein delivered to the NYT reads: "This village, off the main roads, had taken no part in the war, and had even fought off Arab bands who wanted to use their village as a base. On April 9th terrorist bands attacked this peaceful village which was not a military objective in the fighting, killed most of the inhabitance, 240 men women and children, and kept a few alive to parade as captive through the streets of Jerusalem. most of the Jewish community was horrified at the deed, and the Jewish agency sent a telegram of apology to King Abdula of trans Jordan, but the terrorists were proud of this massacre, publicizing it widely, and inviting all of the foreign correspondence present in the country to view the heaped corpses and general havoc of Deir Yassin." It was at Deir Yassin where a baby was reportedly baked in an oven. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jj4u5Llz_7k
Saqiya Massacre - Haganah forces kill 14 people in Saqiya Jaffer.
Tantura Massacre - after the residents of Tantura village surrender to Haganah, between 40 and 200 are rounded up, shot dead, and buried in a communal grave, now a parking lot.
IDF is formed - On May 26th, the IDF is formed out of Haganah, Irgun, with many members of Lehi joining its ranks.
Arab Israeli War - Upon the May 14th termination of the British mandate, and declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel, surrounding Arab armies from Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Syria and Lebanon, invading Palestine, beginning the 1948 Arab–Israeli War, won by Israel.
formation of the Herut Party - Former Irgun leader Manachen Begin formed the part, Herut, later joined by Yitzhak Shamir.
The assassination of Lord Bernadotte - During the Palestine War, the UN appoints Folke Bernadotte as the UN mediator in Palestine. In September he outlined his proposal of a single union between Palestine and Jordan, with two sovereign members, one Jewish and one Arab, allowing Palestinians to return to their homes. While driving through Jeruselum, Bernadotte was assassinated by 4 Lehi operatives. Yitzhak Shamir and other Lehi leaders were jailed by the Israeli government after the assassination, but eventually pardoned.
(1949) End of the Arab Israeli War - Israel wins the Palestine War occupying 78% of Palestine, except for the parts they gave to Egypt and Jordan.
1950s
(1956) Suez Crisis - In the early 1950s, Britain was still in control of the Suez Canal, a strategically important waterway in Egypt that provided a central trade route between Africa, the Middle East, and Asia. British troops remained in the area ostensibly to protect commerce, but growing Egyptian nationalism supported by the US threatened England's dominance in the region and their foothold in Egypt.
Israel assists France and Britain in an invasion of Egypt, momentarily seizing the Gaza strip. The war was carried out to overthrow Egypt's president Gamal Abdel Nasser, who had nationalized the Suez Canal.
David Ben-Gurion sends Israel's Director General of Defense, Shimon Peres to France to negotiate terms for Israel's involvement, resulting in an agreement in 1957 for France to help construct a Nuclear facility in Israel the Negev Desert outside the city of Dimona.
(1958) Dimona Reactor - Construction of the Dimona reactor begins. Shortly after its construction, the reactor would be spotted by American U2 spy planes.
1960s
(1962) Algerian war of independence - Israel provides France with intelligence on Algeria in exchange for being sold French weaponry and other military equipment.
DOJ orders AZC to register under FARA - In 1962, Nov 21, the department of justice under Robert Kenady orders the American Zionist Council to register under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). the world Zionist organization and the American Zionist council doge FARA seven times, with the issued being dropped after the death of Robert kenedy.
(1963) Israeli public affairs committee - In 1963 in January, Isaiah l Kenen incorporates the American Israeli public affairs committee in Washington DC.
JFK tells David Ben-Gurion that Israel will not be allowed to have nuclear weapons. JFK demands inspections of the b Israel lies to the US even going so far as building another phony plant for them to inspect. JFK is quoted as saying: ''the sons of bitches lie to me constantly about their nuclear capacity''. under pressure from JFK wanting to inspect the nukes, Ben-Gurion resigned. Levi Eshkol becomes Prime Minister, and Kennedy goes after him as well.
In October, the DOJ demands again that the AZC register under FARA. RFK writes: "the department expects a response from you within 72 hours"
Birth of AIPAC - In 1963 the senate committee on foreign relations hearings revealed that the American Zionist Council had laundered over $5M of Jewish agency funds into lobbying activities. The American Zionist Council dodged FARA by moving all of its major functions to AIPAC; umbrella organizations like the ZOA and Hadash became permanent members of AIPAC's committee. AIPAC is currently the most powerful lobby in DC.
(1967) Six Day War - Israel takes the land back from Egypt and Jordan (Gaza, Sinai, the west bank/East Jerusalem, and the Golan Heights)
USS Liberty Bombing -
War of Attrition against PLO
Arthur Goldberg - In a 1983 oral history interview with the aformentioned UN Ambassador Arthur Goldberg, the asset known to the Israelis by his code name Manasha, claimed: ''I had made up my mind in 1967 that I was going to resign, but the Middle East war broke out and Rusk disqualified himself, since he had been an assistant Secretary of State and made some anti-israel statements. The president thereupon asked me to take charge, so the state department did not handle the 1967 war. I handled it. Of course, I advised them. I advised the White House, but I dealt primarily with the president.'' As observed by Walter L. Hixson, speaking at an AIPAC dinner, celebrating Israel's 17th anniversary in 1965, Goldberg declared he believed in ''the truth of the Old Testament prophecy that God selected Eretz Israel to be his holy land.'' After leaving the administration in 1968 Goldberg was named president of the American Jewish Committee. In 1972 Goldberg became honorary president of Neot Kedumim, the Gardens of Israel a project centered on Recreation of the biblical landscape of ancient Israel in an area between Tel Aviv and Jeruselum. This man had a central role in US policy toward the territories captured by Israel in 1967.
(1968) RFK assassinated
Operation Gift - An IDF Special Forces operation carried out on 28 December 1968 at the Beirut International Airport during which 13 civilian airplanes belonging to Middle East Airlines (MEA) were destroyed in response to an attack on an Israeli airliner in Athens by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).
1970s
(1973) Yom Kippur War
Libyan Arab Airlines Flight 114 - Arab civilian airplane shot down in then-Israeli-controlled airspace over the Sinai Peninsula.
Formation of Likud - Manachen Begin joins forces with former Haganah commander, Ariel Sharon, expanding Herut into a wider right wing party, Likud.
Plan Dalit - the Zion's forces Plan D or doot in Hebrew implemented by the spring of 1948 had systematically condemned hundreds of villages in the end more than 500 for Destruction. Benny Morris,The Birth of The Palestine Refugee Problem: ''the essence of the plan was the clearing of hostile and potentially hostile forces however the hag regarded almost all the villages as actively or potentially hostile. history tells us that the zionists had long schemed to use any partition plan to their advantage beginning a takeover of the entire land of Palestine. David beneran made as much known in a statement regarding the 1937 peel commission plan. under this proposed partition the Jews would receive some 20% of the land, absent 200,000 Palestinians who were to be removed from it the rest becoming not a Palestinian state but simply an extension of Jordan. the ultimate goal would be achieved most quickly by accepting the peel proposals Ben gurian told the 20th Zionist Congress 'erect a Jewish State at once even if it is not in the whole of the land the rest will come in the course of time it must come the boundaries of Zionist aspirations are the concern of the Jewish people and no external Factor will be able to limit them.'''
By way of plot some 750,000 Palestinians were made homeless forced to March toward Jordan Lebanon Syria Gaza mines would be laid in their old neighborhoods to kill those wishing to return otherwise they'd simply be shot on site indeed Israel authorized a free fire policy in which again referencing Benny Morris soldiers policemen and security guards especially at night fired at anything that moved the evidence suggests that the vast majority of those killed were unarmed.
Nakba - the National Intelligence estimate also concludes the Arab Israeli dispute has seriously damaged the US security position in the Middle East in a Frank discussion on Zionism Israel has an importance out of proportion to its size population and resources because a it is one of the key factors in the current instability in the Arab states and B it has the political and financial support of the Zionist movement and of many influential groups and persons in the western Nations particularly the US the National Intelligence estimate was further concerned with the renewal of hostilities between the Waring parties to the 1948 War the Israeli free fire policy mentioned earlier was caused for concern in this regard while some 200 Zionist settlers dieded from attacks by Arab infiltrators between 1949 and 1956 in that same period Zion's forces killed as many as 5,000 Arabs. one incident the massacre at Qibya exemplifies the indiscriminate murders of the period. using an attack which killed an Israeli mother and her two children as a pretext Colonel Ariel chiron's Commando Unit 101 Rampage through kibba blowing up house by house and killing 69 people most of them women and children. a telegram from Char Affairs at US Embassy Amad talili explains Jordan's outrage. the Israelis began by shelling village with mortar and artillery fire for between 3 and 4 hours. demolition parties then entered Village blew up 39 houses looted shops. an Israeli attack of this magnitude could have come at no worse time. it occurs just prior to arrival of important Us Mission to area and caps three other recent unprovoked unilateral Israeli moves. if there existed before remote hope of persuading Jordan to sit down with Israel to discuss Mutual water development problems and internationalization of Jerusalem such a hope has been dashed to Smither at least for the foreseeable future.
black arrow/cold war falacy - beneran returned to government in February of 1955 initially as Minister of Defense just days later or one week to be exact the Israeli Army launched operation Black Arrow a deadly crossborder raid into Egyptian held Gaza killing some 40 of their soldiers. It was this raid into Gaza that Nasser cited specific Al as the driving force behind his signing an arms deal with Soviet Alli Czechoslovakia in September of 1955.
Lebanon - the Yum kipor War had dealt a fatal blow to the labor government in power from Israel's creation to the 1977 elections and and the leud under the leadership of manim beIN chose to deal with the increasingly moderate and respected PLO by invading Lebanon where they had their headquarters aside from the massacres at saan chatila in which defense minister Ariel Chiron declared that their Lebanese Christian auxiliaries would clean everything the Israeli military also destroyed 500 buildings by the first week of July and killed some 20 th000 people
On May 1st, 1963, the Israeli Defense Forces Chief of Staff presented a plan to the army for occupying the West Bank 4 years before the 6-day war in June of 1967. It was called Shakam. According to Israeli historian Elon Pap, discussion in Israel of how to run occupied Arab areas began during the Sinai operation, also known as the Suez crisis. In 1956, Israel invaded the Sinai Peninsula of Egypt with the assistance of France and Britain following Gamal Abdul Nassaser nationalizing the Suez Canal Company. This notorious episode culminated in a tense standoff between the world powers, namely the United States and the Soviet Union, that had catastrophic potential. As a result, Israel briefly occupied the Gaza Strip some 10 years before the June 1967 6-day war. The plans to occupy the West Bank were shaped with the help of lawyers primarily from the Israeli army and the interior ministry. Some were already experienced in military occupation overseeing the Palestinians that remained within the 1949 armistice lines, future citizens of the state of Israel. From 1948 to 1966, they lived under military rule, regarded as a hostile population. Violating a military imposed curfew could mean death in those days. In October 1956, some 43 Palestinians were massacred by border police officers upon returning home from work. They had not been notified of a curfew.
Shakim Plan - The later Shakim plan as it was known was named after Misha Shahim, the last governor general of this military rule inside the Green Line. Hebrew University enrolled the military and government lawyers in classes and provided their own academics to participate in the planning. In just a few short years, they were ready to begin a permanent occupation of the Palestinians in the West Bank and also Gaza. Their pretext for such a scenario quickly approached by the spring of 1967. At this point, military governors and military judges had already been appointed to the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the Shakam plan became fully operational. NASA knows that even now Israel is much much stronger than his forces or all the Arab countries together forces. I have no no doubt about it and I think that NASA knows that too. And that is to say that if he starts war he's going to lose it. In 6 days beginning on June 5th, 1967 the Israeli military captured Gaza and the West Bank including East Jerusalem along with the Syrian Golan Heights and the Sinai Peninsula. To do so so quickly, they disabled the air forces of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan, and swept through on the ground. And by the end of the month, on June 19th, the full gathering of Israel's political leaders decided, without a single objection, to exclude the West Bank and the Gaza Strip from future negotiations. This unonymity was not always guaranteed. An important moment from the outset of the June 1967 war is worthy of special attention. On June 5th, Israeli Prime Minister Levi Eshkol and even the IDF chief of staff Yitsak Rabin for tactical reasons procrastinated about whether or not to occupy the West Bank. In fact, when news came in throughout the day about the successful destruction of the Jordanian air force, Rabbine asked aloud, "Why do we need to occupy territories now?" But his views were overturned. He was seconded for a while by Leviol, who was not convinced that the options for keeping Jordan out of the war had been exhausted. But these two men were not calling the shots. Mosha Dian and the general commanding the central front Uzi Naris were.
Moshe Dayan grave robbing - for a long time they had wanted to use every possible opportunity to create greater Israel and in the end they accomplished it within 2 days. Mosha Dian, the towering labor leader and general who served as Minister of Defense during the 1967 war, was prone to fanaticism and ambition bordering on hysteria. It appears that throughout his political and military career, he constantly invoked the Bible and his interpretation of greater Israel. One need look no further than Dian's bizarre obsession with amateur archaeology that descended into graverobing. In 1968, he was robbing a burial cave at Azour near Tel Aviv when a landslide badly injured him, putting him in the hospital for 3 weeks. In the words of Ras Clar, formerly of the Israeli Antiquities Authority, Israel's archaeology regulator, he became involved with amateur and professional robbers, dealers, and smugglers. I have documented 35 sites where evidence of robbing and illegal digging by Dion exists. No doubt this is only the tip of the iceberg, but it testifies to the scale and temper of his activities.
Kissinger/displacement - Kissinger was a dedicated Zionist by the time he entered the White House. He had visited Israel six times before taking up the position, establishing an important network of contacts with its leaders. Moreover, Kissinger opposed efforts to force an Israeli withdrawal from occupied Palestine and would ensure that none occurred on his long watch.
Nixon/lobby - On November 22nd, 1967, the United Nations Security Council adopted resolution 242, citing the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war. The resolution called for a withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict as well as a termination of all claims or states of belligerency and respect for and acknowledgement of the sovereignty, territorial integrity and political independence of every state in the area and their right to live in peace within secure and recognized boundaries free from threats or acts of force. Kissinger took issue with the resolution's language, writing in his memoirs, "Egypt and Jordan interpreted the clause withdrawal from territories occupied to require withdrawal from all captured soil." Israel took secure and recognized boundaries to exclude a return to the lines before the 6-day war. To Israel, withdraw meant giving up tangible safeguards, and it demanded a quid proquo. To the Arabs, withdrawal meant getting back what in their view belonged to them. Hence, they considered Israeli withdrawal their right and not an Israeli concession. Kissinger, as should be no surprise, could hardly contain his contempt for the Soviets. The Soviet Union acted as advocate of the Arab cause. It espoused Arab proposals and offered no hint of possible compromise. But Secretary of State Will Rogers warned the president against this sort of pessimism, writing in a memo to Nixon in June of 1969, "We will undoubtedly have great difficulty with the Israelis since they will take the most pessimistic interpretation of the Soviet reply and contend that this confirms their strongly held judgment that neither the Soviets nor Egypt want the kind of peace they require. We must resist this." The latest Soviet plan contains a number of elements that are difficult for the Arabs and particularly for the Israelis. While it has major deficiencies and no doubt will be unacceptable to Israel, it will appear reasonable in many respects to others. For example, the substantial UN role envisaged will be attractive to many who feel that a continuing Israeli presence in the occupied territories is expansionist and unrealistic. But Kissinger thought delay was on the whole in our interest. The State Department wanted to fuel the process of negotiations by accepting at least some of the Soviet ideas to facilitate compromise. I wanted to frustrate the radicals who were in any event hostile to us by demonstrating that in the Middle East, friendship with the United States was the precondition to diplomatic progress. The Rogers plan was the subject of a propaganda campaign undertaken by Apac, the now dominant Israel lobby organization. Apac went to war against the plan. Apac's main lobby partner in those years and years to come was the conference of presidents of major American Jewish organizations. In 1969, it convened a national emergency conference in Washington at which the American Jews expressed their horror toward the existential dangers implied by the Rogers plan. As John Mshimer and Steven Walt described the outfit, American Jews have formed an impressive array of civic organizations whose agendas include working to benefit Israel in many cases by influencing US foreign policy. Key organizations include Apac, the American Jewish Congress, the Zionist Organization of America, the Israel Policy Forum, the American Jewish Committee, the Anti-Defamation League, the Religious Action Center of Reformed Judaism, Americans for a Safe Israel, American Friends of Likood, Marcaz USA, Hadasa, and many others. 51 of the largest and most important organizations come together in the conference of presidents of major American Jewish organizations. This crusade yielded results. The lobby campaign paid off literally as the Nixon administration and Congress rewarded Israeli diplomatic intrigence with a military assistance package of more than $500 million, more than $3.4 $4 billion in 2020. The subsequent attitude from the Israeli ambassador to the United States may provide some insight into the change of Nixon's heart that followed. Remarkably underwhelmed with gratitude for the massive assistance package, Ambassador Yeetszac Rabbine warned Nixon that failure to keep the pace on rearming Israel would result in increased political pressure on the administration, citing a memorandum of conversation from December 1970 in which Rabbine said it was important for a steady pipeline of material to be provided and with sufficient notification so that past turbulence could be eliminated. In May of 1971, Nixon refers specifically to a: ''It's no use to have the two sitting there. They both irritate each other cuz Henry Bra just happens to be wrong. It's a curious thing. The president at the present time over the United States at the present time is the only country that is supporting Israel. There ain't nobody else. None. None. They're both the UN in the United States only. I got we just can't continue the other way. And the Israelis are sitting there right now on this water open. So let's just sit tight not doing a damn thing. We've got the pressure and we're going to the United States just cannot continue to sit in there supporting Israel alone against 100 million Arabs against the British against the French. Uh forget the French but the British for example the Italian. There isn't a goddamn government in Europe that supports us on this on you know one hell and so there must we must be doing something wrong too far everything they're out they want $500 billion more economic assistance they expect us to give them that not do a goddamn thing about opening or anything else they're not this is it and so another reason you got to keep Henry out of it is when he gets involved in Israel He is totally irrational about anything else and he won't say another goddamn thing but what Mrs. Meyer says. Nothing. Nothing. We just got to keep him keep his mind on on Vietnam American relations in China.'' A main source of displeasure for Nixon was not only Israel's dismissal of the Rogers approach, but also their building settlements in the Sinai Peninsula. From 1971, President Anoir Sadat of Egypt offered the same formula to Israel that had already been offered by his predecessor Gamal Abdul Nasser and rejected peace for full Israeli withdrawal from the Sinai Peninsula. Israel rejected Saddat's peace proposals and moreover took action on the ground that hindered any future agreements, including building Jewish settlements at the northern and southern ends of the Sinai Peninsula. The failure to come to any settlement led to what's known as the war of attrition between Egypt and Israel, which consisted of artillery duels over the Suez Canal and widespread Israeli aerial bombardments of wide areas west of the Suez Canal, displacing a million Egyptians from the canal area. On May 26th, 1971, Nixon again vented his frustrations, this time in a memo to Secretary of State Rogers. I think as a result of the enormous influence of the Jewish lobby in the United States, not only through its financial contributions to congressmen and senators, but even more because of its enormous influence through the media, we have often subordinated US security interests to the interests of Israel.
kissinger Yom Kippur - After the war broke out, the US embarked on a massive delivery of arms to resupply the Israeli military, enabling a counter offensive that beat back Egypt and Syria. Well into the war on October 20th, Kissinger was in Moscow, and while there, he received a message from the president. The message, dictated personally by Nixon, was, "However much I disagreed with it, an acute discussion of the Middle East problem." The analytical part intended for me alone expressed Nixon's conviction that the Soviet Union and the United States should jointly use the end of the war to impose a comprehensive peace in the Middle East. The current Israeli successes at Suez must not deflect us from going all out to achieve a just settlement. Now, it is therefore even in Israel's best interests for us to use whatever pressures may be required in order to gain acceptance of a settlement which is reasonable and which we can ask the Soviets to press on the Arabs. Our greatest foreign policy weakness over the past 4 and 1/2 years has been our failure to deal decisively with the Middle East crisis. This is due to three reasons. A, the intrigence of the Israelis. B, the unwillingness of the Arabs to engage themselves in discussions on a realistic basis, and C, our preoccupation with other initiatives preventing us from devoting the time required to the issue. US political considerations will have absolutely no, repeat, no influence whatever on our decisions. I want you to know that I am prepared to pressure the Israelis to the extent required regardless of the domestic political consequences. Kissinger raged and ignored the president's advice with the following justification. I was shocked at the tone of the instructions. Kissinger wrote, "We can pursue the course the president has in mind after a ceasefire made with Israeli acquiescence, but not before. It will be a near miracle if we can bring off a ceasefire, but I think it can be done if we stay disciplined. The president can then work as he wishes." I want you to know that I consider the tone and substance of his instructions to me to be unacceptable." The Secretary of State followed this outburst with what senior analyst at the National Security Archive, William Burr, called Kissinger's virtual green light for Israeli violations of the subsequent UN ceasefire, including communicating the following to Israeli ambassador to the US, Yeetsak Denitz. We could understand if Israelis felt they required some additional time for military dispositions before ceasefire takes effect. We still want to shoot for target of 12-hour time span between security council decision and beginning of ceasefire but could accept Israelis taking slightly longer. This communication for obvious reasons requires total discretion. He then followed this up in a conversation with Goldmayer and Morai Gazit, director of the prime minister's office. Kissinger said, "Did you get our message that if you needed a few hours at the other end? We had to say it carefully because we were using State Department channels. A memo from Th Moor, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, describes what happened next. It appeared to me that the Israelis had in fact violated the ceasefire and that as they turned south to encircle Suez City and block off the third Egyptian army across the canal that they simply continued this operation until it was completed and they established a holding point on the Red Sea. Consequently, the Soviets were correct in saying that the Israelis had violated the ceasefire. On the 24th of October, Brev fired off a historic letter to the president that made very clear the potential for catastrophe. Mr. President, Israel continues drastically to ignore the ceasefire decision of the security council. Thus, it is brazenly challenging both the Soviet Union and the United States since it is our agreement with you which constitutes the basis of the Security Council decision. I will say it straight that if you find it impossible to act jointly with us in this matter, we should be faced with the necessity urgently to consider the question of taking appropriate steps unilaterally. After which Nixon later wrote, "Kissinger, White House chief of staff Alexander Hag, Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger, Deputy National Security Adviser Brent Skraftoft, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Moira, and CIA Director William Colby met at 11:00 in the White House situation room. Their unanimous recommendation was that we should put all American conventional and nuclear forces on military alert. In the early morning hours, we flashed the word to American bases, installations, and naval units at home and around the world.
(1974) Airstrike on Lebanon - As a response to the Ma'alot massacre, next day Israeli airplanes bombed several DFLP offices and training bases in seven Palestinian refugee camps and villages in southern Lebanon, killing at least 27 people and leaving 138 injured.[4]
(1976) Entebbe raid
(1978) Operation Litani – The first Israeli large-scale invasion of Lebanon which was carried out by the Israel Defense Forces in order to expel PLO forces from the territory.
1980s
(1981) Operation Opera – A surprise Israeli air strike that destroyed the Iraqi nuclear reactor under construction in Osirak.
(1987) First Intifada
Oslo Accords - After years of immense UN and American pressure, the Israeli government spent the early to mid90s engaged in purported peace negotiations with Yasser Arafat, the de facto president of Palestine and leader of the PLO. Ostensibly intended as the first step in a much longer process of peace and normalization, the Oslo Accords produced concessions from both sides with the object of heading off further violence and as signs of good faith. Although widely considered heavily lopsided in favor of the Israelis, even earning the title of the Palestinian Versailles, the Israeli right-wing was insensed that a negotiated settlement with the Palestinians was even being considered. The most significant commitment the Israelis agreed to was a promise to draw down their occupation forces in the West Bank, which had been a central point of Palestinian resentment and intense international pressure. Israel was represented in the talks by then Prime Minister Yeetszac Rabbine, a Labor Party politician considered to be on the political left in his home country. But his willingness to even attempt to engage in the peace process made Rabbine a target of the Israeli far right, who demanded nothing less than the annexation and ethnic cleansing of Palestine. Shortly after signing the second Oslo Accords in 1995, Rabbine was assassinated by right-wing Israeli terrorists. He was immediately succeeded by his fellow labor politician Shimon Perez. But within a year, the nationalist lood party took power and Benjamin Netanyahu assumed the office of prime minister with no intentions of fulfilling the obligations his predecessor had agreed to. On the rare occasions when the American media even acknowledges the existence of the Oslo Accords, it typically does so with the implicit assumption that they were sabotaged by Arafat and the PLO in a frenzy of senseless bloodlust. However, in 2001, when he was out of office, Netanyahu was secretly filmed discussing the Oslo Accords with a West Bank settler family. And when he thought no one was listening, he readily made admissions which would be called outlandish conspiracy theories if reported in American media. Seated on a sofa in the house, Netanyahu tells the family that he deceived the US president of the time, Bill Clinton, into believing he was helping implement the Oslo Accords by making minor withdrawals from the West Bank while actually entrenching the occupation. He boasts that he thereby destroyed the Oslo process. On the tape, Netanyahu dismisses the US as easily moved to the right direction and calls America's level of support for Israel absurd. To be clear, the US government had been openly trying since at least the 1970s to achieve some kind of negotiated settlement to the Israel Palestine conflict. And yet, Netanyahu admitted on film that he flagrantly lied to an American president and intentionally sabotaged American diplomatic goals. and it was never even reported in US media. In private, our greatest allies political class speaks of American presidents and voters as a trifling nuisance to be ignored or manipulated at will. And despite Netanyahu's confession of sabotage, to this day, the American press unanimously blames Palestinians for the failure to reach a diplomatic resolution to the conflict.
Operation Accountability - Week-long IDF operation in Lebanon to attack Hezbollah positions. Israel specified three purposes of the operation: to strike directly at Hezbollah, to make it difficult for Hezbollah to use southern Lebanon as a base for striking Israel and to displace refugees in the hopes of pressuring the Lebanese government to intervene against Hezbollah.
(1996) Operation Grapes of Wrath - A sixteen-day military operation carried out by the IDF in southern Lebanon as a result of Hezbollah's Katyusha rocket attacks on Israeli population centers along the border with Lebanon.
1999 - JFK Jr. death
2000s
(2001) 9/11
(2003) Iraq War
Abu Hasan - Israeli capture of a vessel on course to the Gaza Strip from Lebanon.
Ain es Saheb airstrike – Israeli Air Force operation against an alleged Palestinian militant training camp in Ain es Saheb, Syria.
Operation Sharp and Smooth - Israel Defense Forces raid on a Hezbollah-run hospital in Lebanon's Bekaa Valley.
(2006) Lebanon War
Shebaa Farms conflict - Low level conflict in the Lebanese-Israeli border which preceded 2006 war.
Operation Summer Rains - IDF operation held in the Gaza Strip in response to the killing of two soldiers and the kidnapping of the Israeli soldier Corporal Gilad Shalit on June 25, 2006, and the firing of Qassam rockets toward Israel.
(2007) Operation Orchard - An airstrike in northern Syria against an alleged nuclear site. Israel was blamed for the incident and never admitted to the attack until 2018.
(2008) Operation Cast Lead - In Cast Lead” in 2008, Israel struck 3,400 targets in 22 days.
2010s
(2010) Operation Sea Breeze - An operation carried out by the IDF frogmen, Shayetet 13, in the international waters of the Mediterranean Sea, 66 miles outside of Israel's territorial waters. During the operation the Israeli forces boarded the Gaza Freedom Flotilla of six ships carrying international activists whom were planning to break the Israeli and Egyptian blockade of Gaza and deliver humanitarian aid. During the takeover of the ships, bulletproof vests, night-vision goggles and gas masks were found on the ship. A violent confrontation developed between the soldiers and the activists aboard the main ship of the convoy, the "MV Mavi Marmara", which resulted in the killing of at least nine activists. According to the Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center, 8 of the 9 passengers killed belonged to IHH, a Turkish-based charity organization accused of having ties to Hamas and Al-Qaeda by Israeli and French intelligence officials.
(2011) Gaza Strip airstrikes - A series of targeted killings and raids on PRC targets in Gaza, in response to attacks on southern Israel.
Operation Iron Law - Israel seized a ship from Syria bringing Iranian weapons to Gaza.
(2014) Operation Protective Edge - In Protective Edge in 2014, which lasted 51 days, Israel struck between 5,266 and 6,231 targets. Three Israeli teenagers were captured and executed by Palestinian militants in 2014, the Israeli military launched a fake rescue mission despite knowing that the boys were already dead, an excuse to make mass arrests. The massive air war that ensued destroyed 18,000 homes in Gaza and killed thousands of people in one of the most devastating consequences of Israeli lives via Hezbara in recent memory. During the conflict,the only rehabilitation center in Gaza, Alwafa Hospital, was completely destroyed in the bombing. To justify the attack, Israel tweeted a fake photo alleging to show a rocket being fired from the hospital. But according to Amnesty International, the image tweeted by the Israeli military does not match satellite images of the Alwafa hospital and appears to depict a different location.
Latakia attack - Alleged Israeli airstrike against a Syrian warehouse of S-300 missiles.
Operation Protective Edge - The IDF ended Operation Brother's Keeper, which brought tension in the region and increased rocket fire from Gaza at Israel and commenced Operation Protective Edge to retaliate on rocket fire.
(2015) Syria Airstrikes
(2017) Syria Airstrikes
2020s
(2022) Operation Breaking Dawn
(2023) October 7 and Gaza genocide
Operation Swords of Iron
Israel-Lebanon border conflict
Airstrikes on Syria - Airstrikes on Syria against long-ranged weapons sent from Iran to Hezbollah.
(2025) Syrian Civil War - Syria gets taken over by Julani and Israel annexes Mt. Herman.
Operation Rising Lion - Bombing nuclear facilities, military installations, and the private residences of senior Iranian officials.
Iron Wall
Operation Five Stones
(2026) Venezuela - America knocks over Venezuela for siding with Palestine, an oil shipments return to Israel, not America.
Operation Shield of Judah - Along with the United States, Israeli and American forces launched strikes against various cities in Iran.
Iran War -
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