Cursed Victory tells the story of Israel's troubled presence in the West Bank, Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights and the Sinai Peninsula since its sweeping victory in the 1967 Six Day War. Drawing on countless high-level interviews, never-before-seen letters and top secret memos, distinguished ...
The small strip of land between Egypt and Israel known as the Gaza Strip, has been a battleground in the ongoing Arab-Israeli Conflict since the 1940s. After the 1st Arab-Israeli War ended in 1949, Egypt annexed Gaza. In the 1956 and 1967 wars between Israel and Egypt, Israeli forces co...
The Arab-Israeli War Grants Egypt control of Gaza Before Israel became a nation, the majority of people dwelling in the region were Arabs who lived in what was then known as Palestine. On May 14, 1948, Israel was officially declared a state, marking the first Jewish state in over 2,000...
7 attack by Hamas that sparked the war in Gaza. Iran’s ambassador to Lebanon was among those injured by the pager explosions. Israel rarely takes responsibility for such attacks, and its military declined to comment Tuesday. However, the country has a long history of carrying out ...
A ceasefire was announced in 1949 and as part of the agreement, the West Bank was given to Jordan and the Gaza Strip became part of Egypt. Israel, having won the war, though, now controlled more area than they would have under the UN plan. East Jerusalem was under the control of Jorda...
The part given to Israel was mostly the desert of Negev Desert, with no permanent settlement. With this map the Gaza Strip and West Bank came into the existence, West Bank lies west to the Jordan river that’s why the name comes to be west bank. With formation of Israel, war broke ou...
Israel-Hamas war: Survivors tell how Hamas targeted Supernova festival traffic jam in worst terror attack in Israeli history A helicopter gunship fired into the near distance in Gaza and a cloud of black smoke began to rise as I walked along the road that leads...
For me, it was February. For the people I met in Israel, it is still Oct. 8. Throughout the Middle East, there is a wellspring of trauma rooted in history and the tragedy of the current war. From Tel Aviv to Ramallah to Amman, I was struck by the profound pain people are carryin...
historians record events involving the people of Israel. The histories of the Jewish general and writer Josephus (c. a.d. 37-103), The Jewish War and The Jewish Antiquities, are important sources esp. for the last two centuries of the history of ancient Israel. The dates below usually ...
1973 Yom Kippur War: Background Israel’s stunning victory in the Six-Day War of 1967 left the Jewish nation in control of territory four times its previous size. Egypt lost the 23,500-square-mile Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip, Jordan lost the West Bank and East Jerusalem, and Syr...