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It summarizes major events: Israel’s formation in 1948; the Six-Day War in 1967 that led to Israel’s occupation of the Sinai Peninsula, the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Golan Heights; the 1973 war, which led to the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty of 1979; the controversial Oslo Accord in 1993; and numerous United Nations resolutions through the years.

At the close of the Cold War, when the Middle East was momentarily disentangled from great-power politics, Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization signed the 1993 Oslo Accord.

At the time the Oslo Accord was signed in 1993, there were just over 110,000 Jewish settlers living in the West Bank, including East Jerusalem.

That practice ended in 1994 with the signing of the first Oslo accord agreement, but Israel maintains control of the approval process for reinstating Palestinian IDs.

Agriculture and fishing have dwindled from 12 percent to 3 percent of Palestinian gross domestic product since the first Oslo accord was signed in 1993, according to the United Nations.