Balfour Declaration Sykes-Picot Agreement Hussein-McMahon Correspondence Pan-Arabism Abdullah Hussein Faysal ibn Hussein 1st Arab Revolt Theodore Hertzel UN Partition Plan UN Trusteeship British Mandate French Mandate Role of Religion Role of Resources Role of Superpowers Defensive vs. Offensive security Yitzhak Sadeh Jewish Immigration 1936-39 Arab Revolt British brutality Haganah Palmach Kibutzim “Last line of defense” Menachem Begin Stern Gang Irgun Yitzhak Shamir Deir Yassin Bombing of the King David Hotel Declaration of Independence David Ben-Gurion 1948 War Creation of the IDF Nakba Palestinian Refugees Border wars Algerian War Allon and Aliev Security Doctrine Gamal Abdul Nasser Paratroopers Suez Canal Straits of Tiran 1956 Suez Crisis Modernization of the IDF Basic vs. Secondary Security War over Water Rotem 1960 Levi Eshkol Moshe Dayan Role of Intelligence Al-Fatah Yasser Arafat The PLO Ariel Sharon Yitzhak Rabin Ehud Barak Soviet Union France Britain United States Eshkol’s radio speech Operation Focus 1967 War Pre-emption Iraq Syria Jordan Lebanon Anwar Sadat Jerusalem West Bank Gaza Strip Golan Heights Commando Operations Egyptian-Israeli War of Attrition