Neocolonialism, Zionism and Terrorism: an explosive cocktail.

                                                                                                                       JA Morasan

Our sincere congratulations to President Barack Obama, for his wise and timely action to stop the latest episode, which will hopefully be the last, of this unfortunate conflict between Israel and Palestine, which has ratified its prestigious political leadership and his condition excellent diplomat. Congratulations also to the Egyptian government and other leaders in the region that have enabled that outcome before it reached major proportions.

The initiatives of various partners to find a solution to this problem, including the United Nations, has faced the arrogance of the Israeli rulers and their sponsors, as opposed to the majority outcry and condemnation from the international community.

This has been so since its inception, as corroborated variety of publications on this prolonged confrontation.

Consider the following summary: " After World War I, Britain managed to the League of Nations to make Palestine a "mandate" British, which meant a colony to be administered by Britain and prepared for independence. To help justify his regime on Arab land, Britain arranged for one of his duties as a protectorate exercising power outside foster a Jewish national home. "(Stephen R. Shalom.)

1947: The UN decided to partition Palestine into two independent states, one Jewish and one Arab.

From then on began the ordeal for Palestinians in the territory of the Jews was inserted, giving way to a series of actions "punishment" in response to attacks by Palestinian groups or individuals on the territory occupied by the Israelis. But another reaction that would be expected of a people invaded his territory divided, being harassed and subjected to the excesses of the occupants?

1948: The State of Israel was proclaimed on May 14 with the arrival of hundreds of European Jewish religion. The Arab armies did not recognize the Jewish right to the State of Israel and invaded Palestine. In the war that followed, Israel emerged with about 50% more territory than had been originally assigned by the United Nations. These additional lands were acquired during the first Arab-Israeli war, and included all Galilee, the coast, a small band of Gaza, the Negev desert, and the northwest of Jerusalem.

1950: The Kingdom of Jordan annexed 5180 square kilometers of the west bank of the Jordan River, the territory now known as West Bank. This territory was seized and occupied by Israel in the 1967 war, along with the Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights and East Jerusalem.

1964: Creation of the Organization for the Liberation of Palestine (PLO), which began its armed struggle against the state of Israel.

1967: The Six Day War. Israel is attacked by Arab countries, but manages to defeat Egypt, Syria and Jordan, and seizes the Golan Heights, the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and East Jerusalem. His initial extension of 21,000 square kilometers to 70,000 km2 happened.

1973: Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in the Yom Kippur holiday. Israel takes the Suez Canal. A summit of Arab-Israeli peace in December and work of Henry Kissinger achieved the Israeli departure.

1982: June: Israel invades Lebanon, Yasser Arafat and over 6000 Palestinians were expelled from the country.

September 16-18: Massacre of Palestinians in the refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila by Lebanese militias sponsored by Israel.

1987: December 9: Held the first intifida creates the group Hamas.

1993: September 13: After secret talks held in Oslo (Norway) between the PLO and Israel was signed in the U.S. capital, Washington, peace between the two sides.Israel agrees to return several territories to the Palestinians constitute your state. It creates the Palestinian National Authority (PNA).

1994: On July 1, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat entered the Gaza Strip as the highest authority in the Palestinian autonomy. The arrival of the leader of the PLO took place 27 years after he left the territories occupied by Israel, in its capacity as guerrilla escaped from the security forces of the Jewish state.

1998: On December 15, the General Assembly of the United Nations recognizes the independence of Palestine.

1999: On November 7 begin negotiations on a final peace treaty between Israel and Palestine.

2000: On July 3, the PLO Central Council decided that September 13 will be proclaimed the Palestinian state.

July 11 to 25. - Held the Camp David summit (USA), under the mediation of Bill Clinton, which fails for discrepancies regarding sovereignty over Jerusalem.

September 13. - The ANP delay the proclamation of an independent state.

September 28. - The right leader Ariel Sharon visits the Esplanade of the Mosques disputed in East Jerusalem, which results in the "Al-Aqsa Intifada."

2002 June 16: Construction of the separation wall between Israel and the West Bank.

2003, April 30: Start of the Road Map peace plan that will culminate with the creation of a Palestinian state.

2004, March 22: Israel's assassination of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin, and his successor Abdelaziz Al-Rantissi, on April 17.

November 10: Death of Yasser Arafat, leader of historic Palestine and the PLO. 
, 2005, January 9: The Palestinians come to participate in the presidential election, in which Mahmoud Abbas is elected.

2006, January 25: The Islamic group Hamas wins the Palestinian parliamentary elections.

February 20: Ismail Haniyeh is the new Prime Minister of the Palestinian government chosen by the group Hamas, Israel considers it "a terrorist authority".

September 12: Fatah and Hamas agree to achieve a unity government.

2006, November 8: In retaliation for attacks by Palestinian militants, Israeli armored units, attack the Gaza Strip killing 26 people including 8 children and 5 women. Israel recognizes that the killing was a technical error.

June 2007.14: Hamas after heavy fighting, the group evicted Fatah from Gaza City.

In late December 2008 ended the truce between Hamasand the Israeli army in the Gaza Strip . Israel launched its first attack on the Gaza Strip on December 27, 2008, in retaliation against Hamas for firing rockets into Israel. The ceasefire was declared on January 18, 2009, when Israel and Hamas declared a cessation of military operations.Despite this, shells and rockets continued to be fired from Gaza into the Israeli civilian population centers, while the Israel Defense Forces continued their attacks on the Gaza Strip .

December 19, 2008: Palestinian militants launched three rockets after the expiration of six months after the truce between Hamas and Israel in Gaza.

January 21, 2009 : End of the Israeli army's withdrawal from Gaza , but the soldiers remain deployed at the border "any eventuality".

The balance of 25 days of Operation Cast Lead: 1,300 Palestinians dead, of whom one third were children, 13 Israeli soldiers killed, five of them by friendly fire, and four Israeli civilians killed by rockets fired by Hamas 778 . "

Conclusion: The promoters of countries that partition and the Jewish settlement on Palestinian land, together with the UN, have a moral, political and historical end the conflict, fostering the conditions that ensure peace with justice, by creating two independent and sovereign states, according to the definition originally established and endorsed by the UN, using whatever resources are necessary.

Morasan JA, BA in International Relations.