went to Israel. In 1953, Israel passed the Land Acquisition Law, offering payment for property taken from Arab citizens of Israel who lived there between May 4, 1949 and April 1, 1952. In 1964, the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was created. (Silverman, 88-89) In 1967, the Six-Day War between Israel and the Egyptian and Syrian armies occurred. In six days, Israel defeated Egyptian, Syrian, and Jordanian forces, gaining Sinai, the Gaza Strip, the Golan Heights, and the West Bank. After the Six-Day War, the Arab states refused to recognize Israel's existence, negotiate with Israel, or make peace with Israel. (Tessler, 335) In 1969, the War of Attrition between Egypt and Israel occurred, when Egypt's president Gamal Abdel Nasser broke the cease-fire agreement, and began military attacks on Israeli territory. (Tessler, 445) In 1972, PLO terrorists murdered eleven Israeli athletes at the Olympic games in Munich, Germany. (Silverman, 90) Once again, issues between the Israelis and Arabs were unresolved, and when a new Egyptian President was elected, he attacked Israel, in 1973, during the Jewish holiday of Yom Kipper. The Yom Kippur War took the Israelis by surprise. It took the Israelis three weeks to organize, counterattack, and halt the enemy advance. Two thousand Israeli soldiers died in battle. (Goldschmidt, 282-283) In 1976, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin ordered an invasion of several Arabic nations, which resulted in the rescue of over a hundred Israeli hostages, who had been hijacked and held by Palestinian terrorists at the airport at Entebbe, Uganda. In 1977, Egyptian President Anwar Sadar arrived in Jerusalem. He was the first Arab leader to visit Israel. This was the beginning of peace negotiations between Egypt and Israel. In 1978, Egypt and Israel signed the Framework for Peace in the Middle East. In 1979, the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty was signed in Washington D.C., ending thirty years of...
