* * *
Octavian
oil dependency, Middle East, United States
oil embargo of
Oil for Food program (Iraq)
Omri
OPEC (the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries)
formation of
Operation Desert Fox
Operation Desert Storm
environmental war
Israeli involvement in
multilateral coalition of
PLO involvement in
weapons introduced in
Operation Ezra
Operation Iraqi Freedom
Operation Magic Carpet
Operation Nehemiah
Operation Peace for Galilee
Operation Sheba
Osirak nuclear plant
Israeli attack on
Israeli destruction of
Oslo accords
Oslo agreement
Oslo agreement II
Oslo agreements
Oslo Conference
Osman
Ottoman Empire
breakup of
division of
establishment of
Ottomans
P
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Paice, Mervyn
Palestine
Arab/Jewish land competition
Holocaust survivors, immigration to
Jewish immigration to
Jewish improvements to
Jewish underground
lack of existence
nationalism, roots of
UNSCOP partition plan
Palestine Liberation Front (PLF)
Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). See PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization)
Palestinian Authority (PA)
elections
Palestinian Covenant
Palestinian Muslim Brotherhood
Palestinians
as terrorists
fundamentalists
suicide bombers
Pan Am Flight
explosion of
Pan-Arabism
Pan-Islamism
Pasha, Abd al-Rahman Azzam
Pasha, Ali Maher
Pasha, Azzam
Pasha, Nokrashi, assassination of
Passfield Paper
Passfield White Paper
Patria, sinking of
PDFLP (Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine)
Peel, Earl
Peel Plan
Pentateuch (Five Books of Moses)
People of the Book
Peres, Shimon
Permanent Mandates Commission
PFLP (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine)
PFLP-GC (Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command)
Phalange party (Lebanon)
Phantom jets, Israeli purchase of
Philistines
Picot, Georges Francois
Picquart, George
Pinsker, Leo
plane hijackings, PLO
PLF (Palestine Liberation Front)
PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization)
airplane hijackings
al-Saiqa
arms stockpiles
as political organization
as terrorist organization
Black September
Democratic Front for the
Liberation of Palestine–Hawatmeh (DFLP-H)
DFLP (Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine)
establishment of
factions
Fatah
legitimacy
attempts at
Munich Olympic Games, terrorism at
Palestinian Covenant
plane hijackings
PLF (Palestine Liberation Front)
Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PDFLP)
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine–General Command (PFLP-GC)
Saiqa, establishment of
suicide-bombing campaign
U.S. recognition of
Pobedonostsev, Konstantin Petrovich
pogroms
Pompey
Pontius Pilate
Pope Urban II
Popular Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PDFLP)
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP)
Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine–General Command (PFLP-GC)
Powell, Colin
practical Zionism, formulation of
Prince of Egypt, The
Proclamation of Independence (Israel)
prophets
Pundak, Ron
Q–R
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Qaddafi, Muammar
Qu’ran. See Koran
Rabat Conference
Rabin, Leah
Rabin, Yitzhak
assassination of
election of
Rafsanjani, Ali Akhbar Hashemi
Rahman, Ahmed Abdel
Rahman, Sheik Omar Abdel
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Raiyah
Ramadan
Rameses II
Rashidun (“Rightly Guided”)
Rather, Dan
Raziel, David
RCC (Revolutionary Command Council)
Reagan, Ronald
Reagan Plan
Rebecca
Reed, Frank
Rehoboam
Rejectionist Front
Iraqi involvement in
religious Zionists
Resolution 194 (UN)
Resolution 242 (UN)
Resolution 338 (UN)
Reuben
Revisionists
Revolutionary Command Council (RCC)
Rhodes armistice agreement
Richard I (king of England)
Rida, Rashid
“road map for peace”
proposal of
tracking
Rogers, William
Rogers Plan
Rohani, Hassan
Romano, Joseph
Rommel, Erwin
Roosevelt, Franklin D.
Ross, Dennis
Rothschild, Lord
Rubaiyat
Rubinstein, Eli
Rushmiya Bridge, capturing of
Rusk, Dean
S
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Sabra, massacre at
Sadat, Anwar
assassination of
assassination plot against
Camp David Accords
Safire, William
Said, Nuri
Saiqa (PLO), establishment of
Saladin
Salameh, Mohammed
Samaria
Samuel, Herbert
San Remo Peace Conference
Sandstrom, Emil
Sanhedrin
Saracens
Sarah
Sargon II
Saud, Abi
Saud, Ibn
Saud, Muhammad ibn
Saudi Arabia
Airborne Warning and Command System (AWACS), purchase of
oil discovery
U.S. oil dependence
Saul
Savir, Uri
Schwarzkopf, Norman
security fences (Green Line), construction of
self-determination, concept of
Semites
Senate (U.S.), Jewish makeup of
September 11 attacks
George W. Bush, foreign policy as a result of
Septuagint
Seventh Zionist Congress
Shaath, Nabil
Shalah, Ramadan Abdallah
Shamir, Yitzhak
Madrid Conference
Shaqaqi, Fathi
Sharansky, Natan
Sharett, Moshe
Shariah
Sharon, Ariel
disengagement plan
election of
Shatila, massacre at
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Shazli, Sa’ad
Shertok, Moshe
Shiite sect, establishment of
Shishakli, Abid
Shiite sect (Islam), Ayatollahs
shofars
Shukeiri, Ahmed
Shulhan Arukh
Shultz, George
Shuqeiri, Ahmed
shuttle diplomacy
Simeon
Simon
Sinai
Israeli capture of
Israeli relinquishment of
Sinai I accord
Sinai II accord
Sinatra, Frank
Six-Day War
cease-fire lines
death toll
Gallop poll regarding
geographical changes as a result of
Iraqi involvement in
Sixth Zionist Congress
smart bombs
Solomon
spheres of influence
SPR (Strategic Petroleum Reserve), creation of
stealth planes
Stern, Abraham
Stethem, Robert
Stone, Michael
Straits of Tiran, Egyptian blockade of
Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR), creation of
Struma, sinking of
Suez Canal
construction of
Egyptian nationalization of
nationalization of
suicide bombers
Sunni sect (Islam), establishment of
Sykes, Christopher
Sykes, Mark
Sykes-Picot agreement
Syria, creation of
Syria Palaestina
T
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Talal
Taliban, overthrow of
Taylor, Waters
Temple Mount
Muslim control of
Ten Commandments, The
Tenaut Hameri, attacks perpetrated by
Tenet, George
Tenuat Hameri, formation of
terrorism
FBI definition of
state department definition of
terrorists
Abbas, Mohhamed
al-Megrahi, Abdel Baset Ali Mohamed
al-Qaida
Arafat, Yasser
Fahima, Al-Amin Khalifa
fedayeen
Goldstein, Baruch
Hamas
Hizbollah
labeling of
Moussaoui, Zacarias
Palestinian fundamentalists
Palestinians
PLO
plane hijackings
profile of
Qaddafi, Muammar
suicide bombers
Yousef, Ramsi Ahmed
Thant, U
theocracies
Tiberias, battle of
Torah
Tracy, Edward A.
Transjordan
declaration of independence
establishment of
Jerusalem, annexation of
renaming of
Treatise on Demonstration of Problems of Algebra
Truman, Harry S
Turkey, founding of
Twain, Mark
Twentieth Zionist Congress
U
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U.A.R. (United Arab Republic)
formation of
breakup of
UN (United Nations)
Resolution
Resolution
Resolution
UNEF (United Nations Emergency Force), establishment of
Unified Leadership of the Intifada (UNLI)
UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon), creation of
United Nations Emergency Force (UNEF), establishment of
United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), establishment of
United Nations Relief for Palestinian Refugees (UNRPR), establishment of
UNRPR (United Nations Relief for Palestinian Refugees), establishment of
UNSCOP (United Nations Special Committee on Palestine)
Palestinian state proposal
Partition plan
UNRWA (United Nations Relief and Works Agency), establishment of
Urban II
USS Cole, attack on
V–W
* * *
Vespasian
Via Dolorosa
villayets
Wahhab, Muhammad ibn Abdul
Wahhabism, establishment of
Waldheim, Kurt
War of Attrition
War of Independence (Israeli)
Arabs, expulsion of
battles
Haifa
Tiberias
Jewish immigration
Palestinian refugees of
Israeli attitude toward
proposed solutions
Washington, George
water (Middle East), scarcity of
Wayne, John
weapons inspections, Iraq
Weinberg, Moshe
Weizmann, Chaim
West Bank
annexation, reasons against
Israeli capture of
Jordanian rule of
Western Wall
Wilson, Woodrow
Wingate, Charles Orde
World Trade Center, bombing of
World War I, Ottoman Empire, breakup of
World War II, Jewish participation in
World Zionist Organization, founding of
Wye accord
Wye Summit
X–Y–Z
* * *
Yasin, Ahmed
Yazaiari, Masud
yeridah
Yishuv
Yochanan ben Zakkai
Yom Kippur War
Iraqi involvement in
Sinai I accord
Sinai II accord
“Young Turks”
Yousef, Ramzi Ahmed
Zahal
Zaim, Husni
zakat
Ze’evi, Rehavam
Zebulun
Zedekiah
Zerubbabel
Zinni, Anthony
Zion Mule Corps, establishment of
Zionism
Balfour Declaration
BILU
cultural Zionism
First Zionist Congress
Ha’am, Ahad
Herzl, Theodor
Hess, Moses
Hovevei Zion, establishment of
Jewish opposition to
labor Zionists
Muslim opposition to
Pinsker, Leo
practical Zionism, formulation of
religious Zionists
Seventh Zionist Congress
Sixth Zionist Congress
Weizmann, Chaim
World Zionist Organization
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