A CHRONOLOGY OF THE ZIONIST COLONIAL PROJECT
1998, 31 October: A Memorandum of Agreement was signed by American President Bill Clinton and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu according to which the U.S. would enhance Israel's defensive and deterrent capabilities, and upgrading the framework of the U.S.-Israeli strategic and military relationships, as well as the technological cooperation between them.
1999, 15 March: Netanyahu toured the Jordan Valley, territory occupied in 1967, and vowed Israel would stay there forever. "Without the Jordan Valley, without this protective wall, we cannot protect the state of Israel and therefore we will remain here forever," he added.
1999, 16 March: Foreign Minister Ariel Sharon appeared before foreign ambassadors and told them that, "Resolution 181, which speaks about Jerusalem not being part of Israel, is null and void... We have a very wide national consensus about this issue". He reaffirmed Israel's hold over all of Jerusalem, vowing that "Israel will never make any concessions on Jerusalem -- never."
2000, 24 May: Israeli forces withdrew from areas in Southern Lebanon occupied since 1978.
2000, 28 September: Ariel Sharon and six other Likud leaders made a provocative visit into the Al-Aqsa Compound in Jerusalem. The visit led to clashes that sparked the second Palestinian Intifada.
2001, 7 February: Ariel Sharon won the elections for a new Prime Minister in Israel.
2001, 12 April: In an interview published by Ari Shavit in Ha'aretz, Sharon made it clear that he has no plans for a peace agreement. In the interview, Sharon described the main points of his plan: Jerusalem, the Jordan Valley and the Golan Heights are ours. Not even one of the settlements will be evacuated.
2001, May: The Mitchell Committee (headed by former U.S. Senator George Mitchell) concluded that Jewish settlements are a barrier to peace. Israeli Prime Minister, Sharon, vowed to continue expanding the settlements.
2001, 10 August: Israeli forces raided the Orient House, the headquarters of the Palestinian team to the Peace talks. The Palestinian flag was pulled down and the Israeli flag was hoisted in its place. All files related to the negotiations, along with other classified documents were confiscated. The Arab Chamber of Commerce, Prisoners Society, and The Higher Council of Tourism were among the other Palestinian institutions sealed off by an order from the Israeli Minister of Internal Security Uzi Landau.
2001, December: The first of a series of annual conferences was held in the Institute of Policy and Strategy at the Interdisciplinary Center – Herzliya in a systemic effort to discuss and confront the 'demographic threat' that came back to haunt the Zionist leadership as a 'strategic threat' to the 'Jewish State'.
2002, 28 March: The Arab League summit held in Beirut-Lebanon promised Israel peace, security and normal relations in return for a full withdrawal from Arab lands occupied since 1967, the establishment of a Palestinian state with east Jerusalem as its capital and a fair solution for the Palestinian refugees.
The following day, Israel launched Operation Defensive Shield against the West Bank. This was the first stage of what Ariel Sharon said would be a "long and complicated war that knows no borders".
The ensuing international outcry led U.S. President George W. Bush to order Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to withdraw his forces from Palestinian areas. Bush sent a strong message to Sharon at an April 2 news conference: "Withdraw! Withdraw your troops immediately!"
Christian Zionist Jerry Falwell and other Christian Zionist leaders mobilized their constituencies to deliver telephone calls, e-mails and letters to the president, telling him to refrain from pressuring Sharon and to allow Israel to finish its job. As a result of that campaign, Bush did not utter another word of opposition to Israeli military actions.
2002, June: Israel launched Operation Determined Path to reoccupy the West Bank areas handed to the PA following the Oslo accords.
2002, 20 June: The Moledet party held its 'Transfer Now' conference at the Jerusalem Theater. Israeli PM Sharon and President Katsav spoke at the conference.
2003, 30 April: A Road Map for 'peace' was proposed by the U.S., European Union, Russia and the UN. The principles of the plan were first outlined by U.S. President George W. Bush in a speech on 24 June 2002 that called for an independent Palestinian state living side by side with Israel in peace.
The road map included three phases:
Phase I (May 2003): End to Palestinian 'violence' and Israeli withdrawal and freeze on settlement expansion.
Phase II (June-Dec. 2003): International Conference leading to the establishment of an independent Palestinian state with 'provisional borders.
Phase III (2004-2005): Permanent status agreement and end of conflict; agreement on final borders and clarification of the fate of Jerusalem, refugees and settlements.
2003, May: The Mitchell Committee (headed by former U.S. Senator George Mitchell) concluded that Jewish settlements are a barrier to peace. Israeli PM Sharon vowed to continue expanding the settlements.
2003, June: Israel began building an apartheid wall aimed at caging Palestinian Arabs into densely populated Bantustan-like areas.
2004, 22 March: Hamas spiritual leader, Sheikh Ahmad Yassin was assassinated by Israel.
2004, 17 April: An Israeli missile strike killed Hamas leader Abdel Aziz Rantisi as he rode in his car. Rantisi's son Mohammed and a bodyguard were also killed in the attack.
2005, 4 August: Eden Natan-Zada, an Israeli resident of the West Bank settlement of Tapuah, shot and killed four Palestinian Arabs in the town of Shefa'amr in the areas of Palestine that were occupied in 1948 . While attempting to reload his gun, Natan-Zada was subdued by other passengers and eventually beaten to death.
2006, 14 March: Israeli forces stormed a prison in Jericho and seized five Palestinians accused of assassinating former Israeli Tourism Minister Rehavam Zeevi. Israel used helicopters and tanks to fire at the prison before smashing through its walls with armed bulldozers. Two Palestinians were killed during the assault and a third has since died of his injuries.
2006, 28 June – 8 July: Israel launched Operation Summer Rains against the Gaza Strip demolishing homes, bulldozing land, blowing 3 bridges, and conducting air strikes on Gaza's only electricity plant.
2006, 12 July: Israel started an 'open war' against Lebanon using Hezbollah's kidnapping of 2 Israeli soldiers as a pretext. After 33 days of destruction and killing of innocent civilians, they had to withdraw without achieving their goal to dismantle Hezbollah.
2007, 16 August: Israel and the U.S. signed a Memorandum of Understanding on a new American defense package for Israel according to which the U.S. will transfer $30 billion to Israel over 10 years, compared with $24 billion over the past decade.
2007, 27 November: The U.S. sponsored a one-day peace conference in Annapolis, which launched a new Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
N.B. There were two typing errors in part 1/6. The corrected items are as follows:
1862: (not 1866) Moses Hess called for the creation of a Jewish national state in Palestine.
1920: (not 1921) The Haganah, a Zionist underground military organization was founded.
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