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Zionist and American state terrorism speaks louder than the imaginative allegations of the hypocrite lady. Do you buy your food from pet shop? Or do you take shower in dry cleaner? Get your resources from the right places. Learn about Islam from Muslim Scholars and not AntiIslam websites and zionist channels. If Christianity does not make sense to you then be it, but do not generalize about Islam from your view of Christianity. Islam is Serious, Natural and Complete code of life. It is not some Sunday Service, nor it is some vague guess.
4000-2000 BC - Kingdoms in Egypt, Sumer, and Babylonia New Kingdom in Egypt, Kingdoms in Phoenicia and Assyria. The first thoughts on monotheism (the belief in one god) emerge.
1000 BC 500-400 BC - The Persian empire (present day Iran) conquers all of the Middle East. Alexander the Great of Macedonia defeats the Persians and claims the Middle East.
334 BC c. 200-300 BC - The Romans gain control over all of the Middle East except for Persia. Life of Mohammed. Mohammed founds the religion of Islam, and leads the beginning of an Arab-Islamic empire that will soon hold sway over the entire Middle East.
570-632 AD 661-750 - The Umayyad Dynasty gains control over the Arab-Islamic empire and greatly expands its territories. The empire spreads westward throughout North Africa, north into Spain, and eastward to the borders of India and China. The Abassid Dynasty, the second major one of the Arab-Islamic empire, gains control and moves the capital to Baghdad. The Middle East enjoys a prosperous period of advances in science and technology.
759-1258 10th Century - The decline in the control of the Abassids over their far-reaching empire allows the Seljuks, a Turkish people, to gain control over much of Asia Minor and the Persian Empire to break free. Tales of the riches of the Middle East and a desire to reclaim the Holy Land for Christianity inspire European kingdoms to proclaim a series of crusades against the Muslim empires of the Middle East. Though the crusades were to have some success in holding territory in the Holy Land, their longest lasting effects were in Europe, where people were exposed to many new ideas.
1453 19th century - The Muslim empires of the Middle East decline in power. The Ottoman Empire loses territory and influence to Russia and Austria Muhammed Ali westernizes Egypt, asserting some independence from the Ottoman Empire.
1805-1848 1914-1918 - The Ottoman Empire sides with Germany during World War I. The resulting loss causes the empire to be broken up. Much of its territory is devided between France and Britain, but modern day Turkey successfully defends itself against Greek invasion. The Sykes-Picot agreement between France and Britain secretly promises to divide Ottoman holdings in the Middle East between the nations.
1916 July 1915-March 1916 - The McMahon Correspondences between Sir Hanry McMahon, British High Commisioner of Cairo, and the Sherif Hussein of Mecca apparently promise Arab independence in large portions of the Middle East, including Palestine, which is today Israel. The Balfour Declaration by the British clearly expresses support for a Jewish state in Palestine, clearly at odds with the earlier McMahon Correspondences.
November 2, 1917 Febuary 8, 1922 - Egypt gains its independence. Turkey gains its independence.
October 29, 1923 1929 - The White Paper, released by the British, placed severe limits on Jewish immigration into Palestine and stated that the British government did not plan for Palestine to become a Jewish state. This proclamation was obviously in contradiction with the Balfour Declaration. Iraq gains its independence.
1932 1932 - Saudi Arabia gains its independence. The Peel Commission from Britain reports that great tension exists between Jews and Muslims and suggests a plan of partition for the region.
1937 November 26, 1941 - Lebanon gains its independence. Jordan gains its independence.
1946 1947 - With the British mandate, a right to administer over the region of Palestine soon expiring, the UN proposes a plan of partition for the region, which would create both a Jewish state and an Arab state when the British mandate runs out. The State of Israel declares its independence immediately following the end of the British mandate. Immediately after that, the surrounding Arab nations invaded the new State of Israel. Following the war the Arab League placed an embargo, or prohibition against trading, on Israel.
May 14, 1948 1948-1949 - Following Israel's declaration of independence, forces from the surrounding Arab nations, Egypt, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia, launched an all out, but uncoordinated attack on the vastly outnumbered Israel. However, Israel managed to avoid being driven into the sea and even expanded their territory over the original UN partition plan before an armistice was signed. Following breakdowns in talks with the Arab nations, and Egypt closing both the Suez Canal and the Strait of Tiran, Israel's access to the Red Sea, to Israeli shipping, Israel invaded Egypt. Israel quickly took control over Gaza and the Sinai Peninsula, and was aided by the French and the British who were angry with Egyptian President Abdel Nasser's handling of the Suez Canal. The UN, backed by the United States and the Soviet Union, ended the war and forced the invading nations to leave Egypt, but Israel only abandoned Gaza when the US promised to help keep the Strait of Tiran open.
November-October 1956 September 29, 1961 - Syria gains its independence. Kuwait gains its independence.
1961 June 5-10, 1967 - The Six-Day War between Israel and an alliance of Egypt, Syria, and Jordan militarily began when Israel launched a preemptive air strike that decimated the air forces of the opposing nations, but it truly began weeks earlier when Egypt began declaring its military superiority over Israel and its desire to destroy the nation. Egypt again closed the Strait of Tiran to all Israeli ships and ships carrying supplies for Israel. This closure constituted legal grounds to go to war under international law. In the fierce fighting that followed Israel's air strike, the Arab armies were devastated, with Israel gaining control of the Sinai peninsula from Egypt, the West Bank of the Jordan River from Jordan, and the strategic Golan Heights from Syria. This short war clearly demonstrated the fact that Isreal was the preeminent military power in the Middle East and gained the nation much international attention. It also, however, further entrenched Arab hatred for the State of Israel. UN Resolution 242 is passed by the United Nations Security Council, and calls for a return of the territory seized by Israel, recognition of Israel by the Arab states, a reaffirmation of the principle of free navigation, and for future peace and stability in the region.
1967 September 1, 1969 - Libya gains its independence. Qatar and the United Arab Emirates gain their independence.
1971 August 14, 1971 - Bahrain gains its independence. Many Middle Eastern states placed an oil embargo on those nations they saw as favoring Israel in their policies, including the United States. The embargo ended in early 1974 and while it did not bring about great changes, it was detrimental to the economies of the nations it was placed upon and harmful to their citizens.
1973-1974 October 6, 1973 - On Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, a day when large portions of the army were on leave to be with their families, the combined armies of Egypt and Syria entered Israel relatively unopposed. Within a week, Israel mobilized its reserve forces and drove the Arab armies back, but not before 2,700 Israeli soldiers were killed, four times the number that had died during the Yom Kippur war. UN Resolutions 338 and 339 called for an immediate end to the Yom Kippur War, the enforcement of the articles of Resolution 242, and the dispatch of UN observers to oversee the cease fire.
The PLO increased their shelling in response to the bombing, and Israel invaded Lebanon with the hope of destroying the PLO and forming normal relations with the government of Lebanon. After long periods of fighting and the Israeli capture of Beirut, the PLO did leave Lebanon.
The operation was not a success though, as the Lebanese president was assasinated, and, in rage, his followers massacred thousands of Palestinian refugees. Israel was held responsible for these massacres and withdrew from much of Lebanon, allowing the PLO to eventually return.
Following the upheaval in Iran, Iraq demanded a renegotiation of the treaty between them, demanding more access to the Persian Gulf and autonomy for the Arab minorities in Iran, a Persian, not Arab, nation. When talks broke down, Iraq invaded Iran making large gains.
In 1981 Iran took the offensive and regained most of its territory. The war then continued for seven years as a stalemate with both sides ocurring horrible casualties and attacking neutral shiping in the Persian Gulf. When the war was finally ended by UN Resolution 598, there were an estimated 1 million dead and 1.7 million wounded.
1987-1989 May 23, 1990 - A unified Yemen is formed. After Iraq revived a dispute with Kuwait and declared that Kuwaiti overproduction of oil was damaging Iraq's economy, Iraq invaded and quickly took over Kuwait. There was international outcry, and the UN demanded that Iraq withdraw from Kuwait by January 15, 1991.
August 2, 1990 1991 - After Iraq refused to comply with UN demands, a multi-national force composed of some 500,000 men from both Arab and Western nations launched a major air offensive against Iraq. The Persian Gulf War went badly for Iraq, and they were soon forced from Kuwait and lost large portions of their army. Following the war, Iraq's stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons were destroyed, UN observers were placed in the nation, and it was put under economic sanction. After a long history of distrust and hatred between Israel and the PLO, the two groups finally made a breakthrough after nearly two years of negotiations when Yasser Arafat of the PLO sent his Declaration of Principles to Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. The declaration acknowledged the right of Israel to exist, accepted UN Resolution 242 and 338, renounced the use of terrorism, and promised to remove from the Palestinian National Covenant the clauses calling for the destruction of Israel.
July 25, 1994 October 26, 1994 - A Israel-Jordan Peace Treaty is signed following the Washington Declaration, making Jordan only the second Arab nation to sign a treaty with Israel. The Prime Minister of Israel, Yitzhak Rabin, is assasinated by a Jew who is opposed to his liberal policies on the peace process. Rabin is succeeded by Shimon Peres who promises to continue the work that Rabin had pioneered.
November 5, 1995 May 21, 1996 - The UN agrees to allow Iraq to sell some oil, despite the embargo, so long as all of the profits go towards humanitarian purposes and to relieve the suffering that the economic strangulation has placed upon Iraq. Iraq opposed the clause in the resolution that required UN monitoring of the sales, but eventually submitted. Benyamin Netanyahu is elected Prime Minister of Israel by a slim margin over Shimon Peres. Netanyahu promises a hard line towards future peace negotiations, and is less anxious to give up land than Peres and Rabin were. This promises to stall negotiations with Syria, who refuses to accept anything but the full return of the Golan, and the Palestinians who feel threatened by a return to Israeli settlement in the West Bank. - May 31, 1996
