The Paris Peace Conference was a set of formal and informal diplomatic meetings in 1919 and 1920 after the end of World War I, in which the victorious Allies set the peace terms for the defeated Central Powers. Dominated by the leaders of Britain, France, the United States and Italy, the talks resulted in five […]
The League of Nations officially came into existence on 10 January 1920. On 15 November 1920, 41 members states gathered in Geneva for the opening of the first session of the Assembly. This represented a large portion of existing states and corresponded to more than 70% of the world’s population. The League of Nations was the […]
In February of 1947, Britain announced it would end it’s mandate in Palestine the following year. Arabs and Zionists had failed to reach an agreement about Palestine, and 53,500 illegal Jewish immigrants to Palestine were being held in camps in Cyprus. On November 29 1947, the UN proposed partitioning Palestine into 3 sections: a Palestinian […]
The Qibya massacre began when Israeli troops, led by Ariel Sharon, launched a reprisal attack on the West Bank village of Qibya, under Jordan’s control at the time, during Operation Shoshana in October 1953, resulting in the deaths of sixty-nine Palestinian villagers, two thirds of which were women and children. […]
Click to Read from 1953 – Qibya Massacre
In the 1967 war, Israel occupied Gaza Strip, which had been part of Egypt, and the West Bank, which had been part of Jordan, including East Jerusalem, which was subsequently annexed by Israel. The war brought about a second exodus of Palestinians, estimated at half a million. Security Council Resolution 242 (1967) formulated the principles […]
Click to Read from 1967 – UN Security Council Resolution 242