Overall Chronology

Much of the political gains resulting from the war initiated by Egypt and Syria against Israel in 1973 is quickly wasted: Egypt goes it alone, signs a peace treaty with Israel to regain the Sinai Desert. The PLO whose international status is enhanced gets deeply involved in the Lebanese civil war. The elimination of Egypt from the regional military equation enables Israel to intervene in South Lebanon and to increase its colonization of the occupied Palestinian and Syrian territories.