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TIMELINE: A chronology of Israel-Syria relations since 1947
By Reuters
Tags: IAF, Israel, Syria

Syria said Thursday that it had fired on an Israel Air Force jet that violated its territory and warned it retained the right to respond.

The two countries are formally at war, but a cease-fire has held on the Golan Heights since 1974, a year after Syria launched a war that failed to regain the plateau captured by Israel seven years earlier.

Here is a short timeline on Israel-Syrian relations since 1947:
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November 1947: Syria opposes United Nations General Assembly partition plan envisaging Jewish and Arab states side by side.

May 1948: When British mandate ends, Jews proclaim State of Israel. Syria and other Arab armies invade.

July 1949: Israel and Syria sign armistice agreement but on-and-off hostilities continue.

June 1967: Israel captures Golan Heights in the Six-Day War.

October 1973: Syria joins Egypt in a surprise attack on Israel on Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the Jewish calendar in an attempt to regain the Golan Heights. Despite sustaining heavy losses, Israel thwarts the assault.

1974: Following postwar clashes on the Golan Heights, Syria and Israel sign an disengagement of forces agreement.

1981: Israel annexes the Golan Heights, a move condemned internationally, and gives its Druze Muslim occupants the option of Israeli citizenship. Most reject the offer.

June 1982: Israel sends forces into Lebanon and eventually drives out Yasser Arafat and his Palestine Liberation Organization. Syria, the main foreign power broker in Lebanon, loses dozens of aircraft in dogfights with Israel Air Force warplanes in eastern Lebanon.

December 1999: Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Syrian Foreign Minister Farouk Shara meet for the highest-level talks between the two countries.

January 2000: Israeli-Syrian talks on the return of most of the Golan Heights to Syria collapse over the fate of a few hundred square metres of land by the Sea of Galilee.

August 2003: IAF warplanes fly over the holiday residence of President Bashar Assad as a message to Syria to rein in the Hezbollah guerrilla group.

October 2003: Israel Defense Forces troops attack a training camp for Palestinian militants near Damascus.

January 2004: Prime Minister Ariel Sharon says he is ready for peace talks with Syria, but only if Damascus halts support for "terrorist agents."

June 2006: IAF warplanes again fly low over one of Assad's palaces to warn Syria against supporting Palestinian militants who captured Israel Defense Forces soldier Gilad Shalit.

June 2007: Israel says it is willing to trade land for peace withg Syria, and is waiting to hear whether Assad would cut ties with Iran and terrorist groups in return.

August 2007: Syrian Vice President Farouk Shara says that it has no intention of waging war against Israel to regain the Golan Heights.

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      2.   #1 neglects to mention... 18:05  |  bat yam 06/09/07
      3.   response to naftali 18:08  |  TMH 06/09/07
      4.   Naftali Lavie neglects other stuff too... 18:29  |  Simon Jenkins 06/09/07
      5.   Missing chronologies 18:33  |  Redstone Boy 06/09/07
      6.   Naftali Lavie from Toronto 18:38  |  zioninst forever 06/09/07
      7.   Also Missing, Naftali 18:39  |  Eliana 06/09/07
      8.   On Peace between Syria and Israel 18:44  |  David Daratony 06/09/07
      9.   Incomplete information 19:23  |  MNJ 06/09/07
      10.   Israel-Syrian relations 19:42  |  Jeff 06/09/07
      11.   Missing from the chronology 20:03  |  rootlesscosmo 06/09/07
      12.   SYRIA FIRES ON IDF JETS 20:29  |  Zyskandar A Jaimot 06/09/07
      13.   Naftali Lavie 20:35  |  B 06/09/07
      14.   Syria`s games 21:51  |  Abu Yusuf 06/09/07
      15.   Syrian Israeli Relations 22:10  |  Qamrul A. Khanson 06/09/07
      16.   Question For Natalie 22:23  |  Jason, Ph.D. 06/09/07
      17.   Missing from all the "Missing From" chronologies... 22:32  |  Veritas 06/09/07
      18.   Jason, PHD 23:03  |  Sean, EdD 06/09/07
      19.   #1-Also Missing From the Chronology 23:29  |  Yonatan Netser 06/09/07
      20.   You are already at war with Syria and have been 08:03  |  H 07/09/07
      21.   # 18 So anti-Israel but no sense 08:57  |  ronhume 07/09/07
      22.   # 8 The Peace Question 09:04  |  Grafted Wild Olive 07/09/07
      23.   Syrian Slave `Citizens` are Evil Dictator`s Property 19:29  |  Solon 07/09/07
      24.   what is going on? Sorry #8 06:06  |  sane & secular 08/09/07
      25.   No 8, 24 14:59  |  mtoumba 08/09/07
      26.   To #19 re: "swastika defacers" 19:27  |  Naftali Lavie 11/09/07
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