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- Facts About Israel: History
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs website on facts about Israel history
- Past Zionist-Jewish Terrorism
Website with information on terror acts committed by Jewish-Zionist terrorists, notably by the Zionist Hagana, Irgun and Stern Gang groups.
- Yom Kippur War
History.com: Yom Kippur War. On October 6, 1973, hoping to win back territory lost to Israel during the third Arab-Israeli war, in 1967, Egyptian and Syrian forces launched a coordinated attack against Israel on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Taking the Israeli Defense Forces by surprise, Egyptian troops swept deep into the Sinai Peninsula, while Syria struggled to throw occupying Israeli troops out of the Golan Heights. Israel counterattacked and recaptured the Golan Heights. A cease-fire went into effect on October 25, 1973.
- 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon
BBC Website on the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon. With Egypt a treaty partner and Syria and Jordan quiet, Israel turned its attention to the Palestinian guerrillas. Many of them had grouped in Lebanon.
- NCTC Hamas
NCTC Website on Hamas
- The Palestinian Liberation Organisation
The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) was established in May 1964 in Jordan. The Palestine Liberation Organisation was a group that sort to combine various Arab organisations under one banner. The PLO’s primary objective was to gain (though from their point of view regain) the land handed by the United Nations to Israel. The PLO’s impact on recent Middle East history has been marked.