1967-1989

 1967 Israel occupied the Syrian civilian border strip and Gamal Abdel Nasser in retaliation closed the opening of Aqabah gulf in to the Red sea and thus the 1967 6-day war erupted. Israel's sudden attack against the Egyptian, Syrian & Jordanian airports paralyzed a great amount of their forces. The Israeli military abilities were completed by the American military and intelligence cooperation's.

Some 900 captive Egyptian soldiers were killed by the Israeli forces.

The war ended six days later. Israel occupied Gaza Strip, Sinai Peninsula, Arab East Jerusalem, West Bank, Golan Heights.

After 1967 war, several guerrilla organizations within the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) carried out defensive attacks on Israeli military targets, with the stated objective of "redeeming Palestine."

1973 The 6- year diplomatic efforts were not fruitful, therefore the fourth Arab-Israeli war, Kippur war, erupted. Egypt joined Syria in a war on Israel to regain the territories lost in 1967. The two Arab states struck unexpectedly on October 6. After crossing the Suez channel the Arab forces gain a lot of advanced positions in Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights and manage to defeat the Israeli forces for more then three weeks. Israeli forces with a massive U.S. economic and military assistance managed to stop the Arab forces after a three-week struggle. The Arab oil-producing states cut off petroleum exports to the United States and other Western nations in retaliation for their aid to Israel. This war broke down the undefeatable portrait of Israel.

In an effort to encourage a peace settlement, U.S. secretary of state, Henry Kissinger, managed to work out military disengagements between Israel and Egypt in the Sinai and between Israel and Syria in the Golan Heights during 1974.

1974 The Arab Summit in Rabat recognized the PLO as the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people.

1982 Israel launched an invasion of Lebanon aimed at wiping out the PLO presence there. By mid-August, after intensive fighting in and around Beirut, the PLO agreed to withdraw its forces from the city and transfer them to Tunisia. Israeli troops remained in southern Lebanon. In the same year the inhabitants of the Palestinian refugee
 camps- Sabra & Shatila, were killed in a horrible massacre with Sharon's support by the phalangists. In this 48-hour massacre more than 3000 civilians were killed.

1987 Relations between Israel and the Palestinians entered a new phase with the intifada, a series of uprisings in the occupied territories that included demonstrations, strikes, and rock-throwing attacks on Israeli soldiers. This unexpected kind of war transferred the initiative to the new Palestinian generation who were desperated from the previous generation's unfruitful actions & secret deals.

Sheikh Ahmad Yassin and his companions formed the Islamic Resistance Movement: Hamas. Hamas was established to confront the occupation and form an Islamic country.

1988 - In November, Palestinian National council (PNC) announced the formation of the state of Palestine with Yasser Arafat as the president. 91 countries officially recognized the Palestinian state.