History of the Holy Land (part II)

History of the Holy Land (part II)

October 26, 1994

Israel and Jordan signed a peace agreement. Israel agrees to respect the special role of Hashemite Kingdom over the Islamic holy places in Jerusalem.

September 28, 1995

Arafat and Rabin signed the Taba Agreement (also known as Oslo II Agreement) in the Washington area that extended to the Palestinian Authority edges West and Gaza Strip, and allow the execution Election (Election) Palestine.

4 November 1995

PM Yitzhak Rabin killed by Yigal Amir, an orthodox students who oppose withdrawal from the edges back West. Shimon Peres, former Foreign Minister of Israel, was replaced Rabin.


November 1995-March 1996

Peres decided to accelerate the peace process with Syria. Previously, Rabin took care of the neighbor countries. Negotiations in Wye Plantation, Maryland, USA, producing a variety of means breakthrough.

February-March 1996

A series of suicide bomb attacks by the group Hamas killed 57 people of Israel. Peres suspend negotiations with Syria.

April 11, 1996

Israel started the attack 17 days to Lebanon. Gerilyawan Lebanese Hizbullah attack major cities of Israel with Katyusha rocket. On 18 April 1996, Israel attacked the UN camp at Qana killed and around 800 thousand residents sipil.Laporan UN said the attack was disengaja.Israel deny reports in the United Nations.

May 29, 1996

On the Election of Israel, Peres lost power and was replaced Benjamin Netanyahu is campaigning against the program Rabin-Peres peace.

September 1996

Action violence killed 61 people and 15 Arab Israeli army due to the establishment of the archaeological tunnel near the holy place of Islam in Jerusalem.

January 17, 1997

Israel attacked the 80 percent of Hebron to the Palestinian Authority. They maintain the area where several hundred Jews live among Palestinians, 20 thousand people.



March 18, 1997

Israel started the construction work of housing in Har Homa Abu Ghneim mountain circle to meet the Jewish settlements in the area of East Jerusalem. That action be gazed at the International.

March 21, 1997

Suicide bomb explosion in a cafe in Tel Aviv killed three people of Israel and 42 other wound.

September 4, 1997

Three suicide bomb in the shopping center in Jerusalem killed five people of Israel.

September 25, 1997

Israeli undercover agents as a Canadian tourist to the failed murder attempt against the Hamas military leader in Jordan. Crisis emerged with the relationship between Israel and Jordan, Canada. Jordan successfully forcing Israel release Hamas spiritual leader, Ahmad Yassin Burgess.

October 23, 1998
Under U.S. pressure, Netanyahu signed the Wye River Memorandum is set back further withdrawal of Israeli troops from West edges and Gaza Strip.

7 February 1999

King Hussein of Jordan, who has been working to promote the normalization of relations between Arab countries and Israel dies.

May 18, 1999

Labor Party leader Ehud Barak won the election after the coalition government dipercepat leader Netanyahu broken.

September 5, 1999

Middle East peace process is running again with the signing of the agreement River Way diperbaruhi.

6 December 1999

The process of final negotiations between Israel and Palestine to meet the deadlock when Palestinians protest against the smooth development of new Jewish settlements in the West region edges. Barak said the protests of 1800 with the termination of new homes in the vicinity of Jerusalem.

December 15, 1999

Barak met with Syrian Foreign Minister, Farouk Al-Shara in Washington in the first high-level meeting between the two countries. Negotiations to reach results in the New Year but it was canceled on 17 January 2000 without explanation. Failure to trigger new tensions in Jerusalem.

February 3, 2000

Meeting Barak and Arafat failed to achieve results on the continued withdrawal of Israeli troops from West edges.

March 21, 2000

Israel finally deliver 6 percent more territory to the West edges Palestine. Israel and the Palestinian Negosiator meet again in Washington to resume discussion of the final status of Palestine.

July 25, 2000

Peace meeting in Camp David, the U.S. ended without results after two sunday negotiate. Negosiator formula fails to achieve the settlement of the problem of Jerusalem.

September 28, 2000

Ariel Sharon, the leader of the hard right wing into the opposition, visited the Temple Mount, holy places for Muslims and Jews. Provocation to cause waves of violence between Israeli soldiers and Palestinian demonstrators. Intifada back dikumandangkan.

6 February 2001

Ariel Sharon was chosen as the new Israeli PM Barak government after the fall. Intifada continues. To this day (2002), after one more year intifada been, reported that 184 residents of Israel and the Palestinians, killed 681 people.