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Chronology of the Conflict <br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4>By Hassan El-Najjar<br><br>
Al-Jazeerah, August 30, 2006<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#000080">Capitalism
has passed through three stages so far:<br><br>
First, Mercantalism: Trade (e.g. Europeans trying to find routes to the
East)<br><br>
Second, Colonialism: Establishing colonies (17th, 18th
centuries).<br><br>
Third, Imperialism: Sending armed forces to extract resources from other
nations (19th, 20th, 21st centuries).<br><br>
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Arabs and Muslims, as part of the Third World, have been at the receiving
end of the capitalist-imperialist endeavors (i.e. invasions):<br><br>
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<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">1798-1800:</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4> Napoleon Bonaparte invaded Egypt
and Palestine<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">1807:</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4> Failing English Invasion of
Egypt<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">
1830-1962:</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4> France invaded and
occupied Algeria. Then invaded and occupied Morocco and Tunisia<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">1882:</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4> Britain invaded and occupied Egypt
and Sudan<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">1896:
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4>The British protection
agreement with Mubarak Al-Sabah of Kuwait, after which the Arabian Gulf
came under British occupation<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">1897:</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4> The first World Zionist Conference
in Basle, Switzerland<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">1911:
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4>Italy invaded and occupied
Libya, to be replaced by British and American occupation after
WWII<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">1916:</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4> Sikes-Picot agreement between
Britain and France to divide the Arab provinces of the Ottoman
Empire<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">1917:</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4> The Balfour Declaration, in which
Britain gave the land of Palestine to Zionists. Palestine came under
British occupation<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">1936:</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4> The first Palestinian revolution
against the British occupation and the Zionist project of colonizing
Palestine<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">1947:</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4> UN Resolution 181 for Palestine
partition<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">1948:</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4> Establishment of Israel on the
ruins of Palestine, the Dair Yassin Massacre<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">1948:</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4> UN Resolution 194 for Repatriation
and Compensation of Palestinian Refugees<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">1949:</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4> Armistice borders of Israel
recognized, including much more land than the Partition Resolution
stated<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">1956:</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4> Israeli-British-French invasion of
Egypt, occupation of the Suez Canal, Sinai, and Gaza Strip for
months<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">
1962-1975:</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4> The Kurdish
rebellion against the Iraqi central government, with Israeli-US-Iranian
support<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">1967:</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4> Israeli pre-emptive war. Israel
invaded and occupied Sinai, Gaza Strip, West Bank, and Syrian Golan
Heights<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">1973:
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4>Syrian-Egyptian war to
restore part of the occupied territories<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">1975:
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4>The Algiers Agreement between
Iraq and Iran, ending the Kurdish rebellion and establishing the Kurdish
autonomous region<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">1978:</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4> Egypt signs a peace treaty with
Israel, getting out of the conflict in order to get Sinai back in
1982<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">1978:</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4> Israel invaded South Lebanon for
the first time, to battle the PLO forces in Al-Arqoub area<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">
1980-1988:</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4> The Iran-Iraq War,
which devastated both countries, as both of them received Western
weapons, including the Iran-Contra scandal<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">1982:</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4> Israel invaded Lebanon and occupied
Beirut, forcing the PLO out of the country<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">1982:</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4> The massacre of Sabra and Shatilla,
under the supervision of Ariel Sharon<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">1987-1993:
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4>The first Palestinian
Uprising (intifada) against the Israeli occupation, which ended with the
PLO-Israeli agreement to establish the Palestinian National Authority as
a first step towards an independent Palestinian state<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">1990:</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4> Iraq invaded Kuwait<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">1991:</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4> Iraq was forced out of Kuwait, to
be replaced by US as a de facto occupation power, occupying not only
Kuwait but the entire Arabian Peninsula<br><br>
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1990-2003:</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4> Iraq was subjected
to US-UK sponsored sanctions, enforced by a US-led NATO naval regime, to
soften it for the 2003 invasion<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">1990s:</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4> Al-Qaeda attacked US forces and
interests in Saudi Arabia, Uganda, and Tanzania, as well as the first
attack on the World Trade Center in New York, attempting to force US
forces to leave Saudi Arabia<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">2000:</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4> Israeli occupation forces were
forced to withdraw from South Lebanon as a result of the fierce
resistance from Hizbullah fighters<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">2000-2005:
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4>The second Palestinian
Uprising (intifada) against the Israeli occupation, following the failure
of the Clinton-sponsored Camp David conference to end the occupation,
resulting in about 4,500 Palestinians killed, 44,500 injured, and 10,000
prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">2001:</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4> Al-Qaeda attacked the US on
September 11 in an attempt to force the US out of Saudi Arabia<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">2003:</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4> The US invaded Iraq for the
declared reasons of the Iraqi links to Al-Qaeda and the possession of
weapons of mass destruction which allegedly threatened the US and the
UK<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">2003:</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4> US forces stationed in Saudi Arabia
left to other Arabian Gulf states directly after the invasion and
occupation of Iraq<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">2005:</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4> Israeli occupation forces were
forced to withdraw from Gaza Strip as a result of the Palestinian fierce
resistance<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">2006:</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4> Hamas won the Palestinian
parliamentary elections. Israel-US-EU refused the results and started a
process to punish the Palestinian people for electing Hamas, through
financial sanctions and closure of borders<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">2006:</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4> Palestinian resistance fighters
capture an Israeli soldier to exchange him with some of the 10,000
Palestinian prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">2006:</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4> The Israeli occupation government
responded with attacks all over Gaza Strip killing and injuring hundreds
of people, destroying the infrastructure including utilities, and closing
the borders completely<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">2006:</font>
<font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4> Hizbullah Lebanese resistance
fighters also captured two Israeli soldiers to exchange them with some
Lebanese prisoners in Israeli occupation prisons. The Israeli occupation
government responded with a war on Lebanon, in which more than one
thousand Lebanese and more than one hundred Israelis were
killed.<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">And the
conflict is still wide open ... <br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#000080">More
invasions and more occupations are threatened ... <br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">This time
against Iran and Syria ...<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#000080">The US
national debt is $6.5 Trillion ...<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#FF0000">The Arab oil
wealth is $45 Trillion, in current oil prices<br><br>
</font><font face="Arial, Helvetica" size=4 color="#000080">Connect the
dots.<br><br>
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