The Contemporary Middle East. A Documentary History

June 1:The PNC establishes the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). November 2:King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed and repl ...

September 24:Israel says it will move civilian settlers into East Jerusalem and the Golan Heights. November 22:The UN Security C ...

September 1:In the midst of a conflict between Palestinian guerrillas and the Jordan- ian army, Jordan’s King Hussein narrowly e ...

July 17:In Afghanistan, King Zahir Shah is overthrown by his cousin, Prime Minis- ter Mohammad Daoud. October 6:Egypt and Syria ...

October 28:Arab leaders, meeting in Rabat, Morocco, recognize the Palestine Libe- ration Organization as the “sole legitimate re ...

May 17:The right-wing Likud Party wins in Israeli elections, ending the domination of the Labor Party since 1948. Likud leader M ...

December 29:The shah of Iran appoints opposition politician Shapour Bakhtiar as head of a new government. 1979 January 16:The sh ...

April 25:A U.S. military attempt to rescue the embassy hostages in Iran fails and results in the deaths of eight service personn ...

December 18:To protest Israel’s annexation of the Golan Heights, the Reagan admin- istration suspends the strategic memorandum w ...

lange militiamen into the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps the previous Septem- ber. Sharon resigns as defense minister but remai ...

years, and then Likud leader (and former prime minister Yitzhak Shamir) will take over for two years. September 25:Jordan become ...

May 25:A delegation of White House officials arrive in Tehran on a secret mission intended to gain the freedom of U.S. hostages ...

December 22:The UN Security Council adopts a resolution that “strongly deplores” the harsh response by Israel to the Palestinian ...

November 1:The Likud Party scores a narrow victory in Israeli elections, enabling Prime Minister Shamir to hold on to power. Nov ...

October 24:After three weeks of meetings in Taif, Saudi Arabia, members of the Lebanese parliament sign an agreement for politic ...

demning the use of violence by the demonstrators. The resolution also calls for a UN fact-finding mission to investigate the vio ...

December 2–4: The last three American hostages in Lebanon are freed. The longest-held is Terry Anderson, a reporter for the Asso ...

Government Arrangements, worked out in the secret negotiations mediated by Nor- way. During the same ceremony, Israeli prime min ...

July 1:Arafat arrives in the Gaza Strip after twenty-seven years in exile. July 5:Arafat assumes office as the first president o ...

December 24:The Welfare Party wins a plurality in Turkey’s parliamentary elections, marking the best showing yet for an Islamist ...