The Hebrews were led out of Mesopotomia in 1800 B.C. by Abraham and they also received the covanent around that time. In the covenant between god and Abraham it says that there is a holy land somewhere for the Jewish people. They left Mesopotamia for the holy land, which they didn't find. Due to a widespread famine, the Jewish people ended up in Egypt where they were cast as slaves. This marked the first huge problem with a soon to be Arab country, Egypt, and the Jews. In 1250 BC Moses led the Hebrews from Egypt, once again in search of the holy land. After forty years of wandering in the desert, the Jewish people finally find the holy land that they call Judah. It

After 70 AD the Jewish people were not heard from about regaining the rights to the holy land. It continued that the Hebrews had no place to call their own, and they lived all over the globe. Then in the late 1800s, almost 1900 years after being ejected from their promised land, the Zionist movement began. The Zionist movement was the efforts of the Jewish people, and others that supported them, working towards establishing a homeland for Jews in the holy land, Palestine. In 1896 Theodor Herzel's book, The Jewish State, is published. This book ignited the Zionist movement, and caused all the Hebrews to focus on their goal of gaining a homeland. The year after Herzel's book was published, there was a Zionist congress held. They chose Palestine as the site they were going to try and make the Jewish homeland. Palestine at the time was part of the Ottoman Empire. However, before World War I the European nations were taking the Empire over piece by piece. Then after World War II the Allied powers were mandated countries in 1920. This was because of the Sykes-Picot agreement. This agreement gave Britain Jordan, Palestine, and Mesopotamia. It gave France Lebanon and Syria. Russia was left out of this agreement because they were in the middle of a revolution. The Sykes-Picot agreement also nullified another agreement having to do with the land of the Middle East. That agreement was known as the Husayn-McMahon correspondence. In this agreement Britain promised the Arabs control over the land in the Middle East. However since the Sykes-Picot agreement was the on that was carried through, it is obvious that Britain lied to the Arabs just to gain their support. Through all of this lobbying for power, Herzel still was working for a Jewish homeland. He was also gaining a lot of support and help. Especially from a Russian born chemist and Jew named Chaim Weizmann who was a British citizen. He worked on the British government and pushed them to allow a Jewish homeland in Palestine. Then in 1917 Lord Balfour of England sent a letter to Lord Rothschild, head of a famous Jewish banking family in Britain, that contained the Balfour Declaration. This declaration said that the British government would allow the Jews to establish a homeland in the holy land of Palestine. This eventually caused the founding of the Jewish state of Israel and also set into motion the bitter Arab-Israeli wars and conflicts.

In 1979 an agreement was finally reached. It was called the Egyptian-Israeli peace agreement. The two parties agreed to end the state of war and respect each other as independent nations. They also established that Israel got free use of the Suez Canal, Egypt got back the Sinai Peninsula, and the Strait of Tiran was made international territory. Also included in the treaty was an agreement that within a year the two parties would have decided on how to implement Palestinian self-rule. However, this part of the treaty was never carried out. Israel did not want to give up its territory to the Palestinians. Despite that, the treaty was signed and peace began between the Egyptians and the Israelis. However the problems had just begun between the Palestinians and the Israelis. In 1982 the Israelis invaded Lebanon and forced the PLO to withdrawl and move to Tunisia. The Israelis took over a six mile strip in Lebanon, but were later forced to leave by the United Nations. Several years later, in 1988,

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