The deal between Israel and the United Arab Emirates to fully normalise relations follows a history of peace efforts between Israel and the Palestinians and their Arab allies that have failed to overcome decades of distrust and violence.
Here are the main initiatives undertaken since the 1967 Middle East War, when Israel captured the West Bank and East Jerusalem, the Sinai peninsula and the Gaza Strip, and the Golan Heights:
1967 : After the six day war, a UN security council resolution calls for the “withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied in the recent conflict” in return for all states in the area to respect each other’s sovereignty, territorial integrity and independence. .
1978 -The Camp David agreement: Israel’s Menachem Begin and Egypt’s Anwar Sadat agree on a framework for regional peace that calls for an Israeli withdrawal in stages from Egypt’s Sinai and a transitional Palestinian government in the West Bank and Gaza.
1979: The first peace treaty between Israel and an Arab country sets out plans for a complete Israeli withdrawal from Sinai within three years.
1981: Sadat assassinated by Islamist revolutionaries at a military parade in Cairo.
1994: Jordan becomes the second Arab country to sign a peace treaty with Israel. But the treaty is unpopular and pro-Palestinian sentiment is widespread in Jordan.
1993-1995: Israel and the PLO hold secret talks in Norway that result in interim peace accords calling for the establishment of a Palestinian interim self-government and an elected council in the West Bank and Gaza for a five-year transitional period, Israeli troop withdrawals and negotiations on a permanent settlement.
Get the rest of the time line by reading the article in The Northern Daily Leader (AAP).