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  2. History of the Middle East - Wikipedia

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    In the Six-Day War in June 1967, Israel invaded and captured the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip from Egypt; the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, from Jordan; and the Golan Heights from Syria. The war ended with Israel's continued control of the territories when all countries involved agreed to a ceasefire. [106]

  3. Egypt–United States relations - Wikipedia

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    Following the peace treaty with Israel, Egypt between 1979 and 2003 acquired about $19 billion in military aid, making it the second-largest non-NATO recipient of US military aid, after Israel. Egypt received about $30 billion in economic aid within the same time frame. In 2009, the US provided military assistance of $1.3 billion (equivalent to ...

  4. List of modern conflicts in the Middle East - Wikipedia

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    The "Middle East" is traditionally defined as the Fertile Crescent (Mesopotamia), Levant, and Egypt and neighboring areas of Arabia, Anatolia and Iran. It currently encompasses the area from Egypt, Turkey and Cyprus in the west to Iran and the Persian Gulf in the east, [1] and from Turkey and Iran in the north, to Yemen and Oman in the south ...

  5. Explainer-Egypt-Israel relations explained as tensions rise ...

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    After fighting wars with Israel in 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973, Egypt became the first Arab country to sign a peace treaty and establish relations with Israel in 1979. Egypt began importing Israeli ...

  6. Foreign relations of Egypt - Wikipedia

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    Egypt has been seeking to play a role in the resolution of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict.. Egypt played an important role in the negotiations leading to the Madrid Conference of 1991, which, under United States and Soviet sponsorship, brought together all parties in the region, including for the first time a Palestinian delegation, to discuss Middle East peace.

  7. History of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict - Wikipedia

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    The region today: Israel, the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights. The history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict traces back to the late 19th century when Zionists sought to establish a homeland for the Jewish people in Ottoman-controlled Palestine, a region roughly corresponding to the Land of Israel in Jewish tradition.

  8. Arab–Israeli conflict - Wikipedia

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    A report by the Strategic Foresight Group estimated the opportunity cost of conflict for the Middle East from 1991 to 2010 at $12 trillion. The report's opportunity cost calculates the peace GDP of countries in the Middle East by comparing the current GDP to the potential GDP in times of peace. Israel's share is almost $1 trillion, with Iraq ...

  9. Egypt caught between Israel and Hamas as crisis deepens - AOL

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    Egypt ruled Gaza in the 1950s and ’60s until its forces were expelled by Israel in the Six-Day War of 1967, one of several conflicts in which Cairo helped lead an anti-Israel military coalition.