How Israel was won: a concise history of the Arab-Israeli conflict

Early Zionism before the Balfour declaration

World War I and the Balfour declaration (1917)

The League of Nations mandate system (1922)

Britain curbs Jewish statehood and immigration (1938-1942)

Britain withdraws from Palestine (1948)

UN proposal for partition (1947) Civil war (December, 1947 to May, 1948)

International war (May, 1948 to December, 1948)

Uneasy settlement of the 1948 War

Border turmoil in the name of Israeli security (1948-1955)

International Cold War politics and the Suez War (1956)

External and internal stresses on Israel (1956-1967)

Cold War polarization of the Arab-Israeli conflict (1957-1966)

Precipitation of the Six Day War (1967)

The Six Day War and its consequences

The Yom Kippur War (1973) and its antecedents

The PLO, the West Bank and the Lebanon Wars (1982)

Likud's greater-Israel dram and the intifada (1988)

The Oslo Accords and the demise of the peace process (1988).