ask for cease fire after three weeks of fighting. Israel negotiates disengagement agreement with Egypt and Syria, setting ceasefire lines in the Sinai and the Golan. Arab oil embargo is imposed. International oil prices rise dramatically. United Nations passes resolution defaming Zionism as racism (!) PLO control of Lebanon is 1975 challenged, and full-scale civil war erupts between Moslems and Christians. Syria invades Lebanon and sets up permanent control over more than half of that country. 1976 (Western press ignores.) Israeli raid on Entebbe airport in Uganda on July 4, frees 103 hostages held by PLO. Likud government elected in Israel. Menachem Begin is first Likud prime minister. President 1977 Anwar Sadat of Egypt responds to Begin's invitation and visits Israel. (Leads to peace treaty in 1979.) First wave of Jewish emigration from Soviet Union as result of Soviet-American détente - 1978 79 reaches peak. 200,000 Soviet Jewish immigrants arrive in Israel. Egypt and Israel sign Camp David Accords. Israel agrees to return Sinai. 1979 1981 1982 Anwar Sadat is assassinated. 1981 Israeli ambassador is shot in London by PLO. Israel invades Lebanon with aim of dismantling 1982 PLO terror bases. PLO is expelled from Lebanon and forced to relocate in Tunis. U.S. and Israel sign strategic cooperation agreement formalizing alliance. 1984 1985 Israel withdraws from Lebanon and establishes security zone north of Israeli-Lebanese border. 1985 Syria remains in control of most of Lebanon. U.S. takes lead in war against terror after PLO hijacks Achille Lauro cruise ship. Midair interception of terrorists by U.S. fighter planes. U.S. and Britain bomb Libya in retaliation for Libyan-supported terror attacks. 1986 1987 1988 PLO banned in U.S. by law for terrorist activities. Intifada, the Palestinian uprising begins. 1987 PLO pressures Jordan's King Hussein into renouncing all claims to the West Bank; from 1988 Algiers, PLO declares establishment of Palestinian state with capital in Jerusalem. Collapse of Soviet Union. Second wave of Soviet immigration to Israel brings 600,000 in five - 1989 91 years. Israeli airlift brings most of Ethiopian Jewry to Israel. Saddam Hussein of Iraq invades 1990 Kuwait. Gulf War. U.S.-led international coalition drives Saddam from Kuwait. Israel is attacked by 1991 Iraqi Scud missiles, but is kept from intervening by the U.S. Madrid Peace Conference among Israel, Syria, Lebanon, and a Jordanian-Palestinian delegation. Israel branded as the chief obstacle to peace, and is pressured to negotiate with PLO representatives. Labor returns to power in Israel. Yitzhak Rabin becomes prime minister. 1992 Secret negotiations with the PLO in Oslo, Norway. 1992-93 Declarations of Principles ('Oslo I') signed at the White House ceremony, transferring control 1992 of Jericho and Gaza to PLO control. Peace Treaty signed with Jordan (Cf. Dan 11:41). Gaza Strip and Jericho turned over to PLO 1994 control; Yassar Arafat, Yitzhak Rabin, and Shimon Peres receive Nobel Peace Prize. Yasser Arafat: This is the man who ordered the murder of the school children in Avivim, Ma'alot, and Antwerp; of 11 Jewish Olympic athletes in Munich; of synagogue worshipers in Istanbul, of a child and his pregnant mother in Alfeh Menashe, and of a mother an her children on the bus in Jericho. This is the man who ordered innocent Arabs in Nablus hanged by their chins on butcher's hooks until they died; by whose orders the bellies of pregnant Arab women were split open before the eyes of their husbands and the hands of Arab children were chopped off while their parents looked on. Clearly, there is little connection

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