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| 1976 |
| | | In a daring raid on Entebbe airport, Israeli troops rescue hostages hijacked on a flight from Tel Aviv to Paris | |
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| 1977 |
| | | Likud leader Menachem Begin, at the head of a coalition government, becomes Israel's first non-socialist prime minister | |
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| 1977 |
| | | Anwar el-Sadat, the Egyptian president, travels to Jerusalem to propose a peace plan to the Israelis | |
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| 1978 |
| | | Anwar el-Sadat and Menachem Begin sign an Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty at Camp David in the USA | |
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| 1978 |
| | | Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian president Anwar el-Sadat share the Nobel Peace Prize | |
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| 1979 |
| | | Saddam Hussein begins a reign of terror in Iraq, reading out at a meeting the names of fellow Ba'thists who are to be taken out and shot | |
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| 1980 |
| | | Saddam Hussein invades Iran, beginning an 8-year war that will bring massive human cost | |
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| 1982 |
| | | Israeli Minister of Defence Ariel Sharon heads Israel's invasion of Lebanon to expel the PLO | |
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| 1982 |
| | | Yasser Arafat and the PLO move to Tunisia, after being driven out of Lebanon by Israel | |
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| 1982 |
| | | Christian militiamen massacre Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Chatila camps in Lebanon | |
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