from Wikipedia's
Palestine entry:
Modern period
Further information:
History of Zionism,
British Mandate for Palestine, and
History of Israel
In 1830, on the eve of
Muhammad Ali's invasion, the
Ottoman Porte transferred control of the sanjaks of Jerusalem and Nablus to Abdullah Pasha, the governor of Acre. According to Silverburg, in regional and cultural terms this move was important for creating an Arab Palestine detached from Syria (
bilad al-Shams). According to Pappe, it was an attempt to reinforce the Syrian front in face of Muhammad Ali's invasion.
[42][43] Two years later, in 1832, Palestine was conquered by
Muhammad Ali's Egypt, but in 1840 Britain intervened and returned control of the Levant to the Ottomans in return for further
capitulations. The end of the 19th century saw the beginning of
Zionist immigration and the
Revival of the Hebrew language. The movement was publicly supported by
Great Britain during
World War I with the
Balfour Declaration of 1917. The British captured Jerusalem a month later, and were formally awarded a
mandate in 1922. The non-Jewish Palestinians revolted in
1920,
1929 and
1936. In 1947, following
World War II and the
Holocaust, the British Government announced their desire to terminate the Mandate, and the
United Nations General Assembly voted to
partition the territory into a Jewish state and an Arab state. The Jewish leadership accepted the proposal but the Arab Higher Committee rejected it; a
civil war began immediately, and
Israel was declared in 1948. The
700,000 Palestinians who fled or were driven from their homes were unable to return following the
Lausanne Conference, 1949. In the
1948 Arab-Israeli War, Israel captured and incorporated a further 26% of the Mandate territory, Jordan
captured the region today known as the West Bank and the
Gaza Strip was
captured by Egypt. In the course of the
Six Day War in June 1967, Israel captured the rest of Mandate Palestine from Jordan and Egypt, and began a policy of
Israeli settlements. From 1987 to 1993, the
First Palestinian Intifada against Israel took place, ending with the
1993 Oslo Peace Accords. In 2000, the Second or
Al-Aqsa Intifada began, and Israel built a
security barrier. Following
Israel's unilateral disengagement plan of 2004, it withdrew all settlers and most of the military presence from the Gaza strip, but maintained control of the air space and coast.
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