1946: Saudi Arabia Protests U.S. Support for the Establishment of a Jewish State
In 1946, King Abdulaziz Ibn Saud, the King of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, protested the United States’ support for the establishment of a Jewish state on the majority of the land of Palestine, which was then under British Mandate rule.
1995: U.S. Congress Approves Moving Embassy to Jerusalem
In 1995, the U.S. Congress approved the relocation of the United States Embassy in Israel to the city of Jerusalem, with a majority of 93 votes in favor and only 5 opposed. Congress recommended that President Bill Clinton implement the decision, but he regularly postponed it every six months. His successor, President George W. Bush, continued to delay its implementation after taking office in 2001. Eventually, the U.S. Congress passed a law recognizing the entire city of Jerusalem—both the occupied West and East—as the “unified capital of Israel.” President Bush signed this law immediately upon its issuance on October 1, 2022.
1998: Signing of the Wye River Agreement
In 1998, Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, and U.S. President Bill Clinton, with the presence of Jordan’s King Hussein, signed the Wye River (Plantation) Agreement after nine days of intense negotiations and difficult bargaining at the conference center in “Wye Plantation,” Washington. The agreement stipulated: “Israeli withdrawal from certain areas of the West Bank, the implementation of security measures to combat (resistance) terrorism, strengthening economic relations between the Palestinian Authority and Israel, and the second redeployment of Israeli forces in the West Bank, which would occur in three phases.” The agreement became known as “land for security.”
