Israel-Palestine Peace Accord Signed – HISTORY

After decades of bloody animosity, representatives of Israel and Palestine meet on the southern lawn of the White House and sign a framework for peace. The “Declaration of Principles” was the first agreement between the Israelis and the Palestinians to end their conflict and share the holy land between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea which they both claim as their homeland.

Fighting between Jews and Arabs in Palestine dates back to the 1920s, when the two groups claimed the territory under British control. The Jews were Zionists, recent emigrants from Europe and Russia who came to the ancient homeland of the Jews to establish a Jewish national state. The native Arabs (they have not yet called themselves Palestinians) sought to stem Jewish immigration and create a secular Palestinian state.

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