(Reuters) -Israel’s bombing of Qatar last week risks a new breach with Arab states who are meeting on Monday, opening another chapter in a fractious history since Israel’s creation in 1948 marked by repeated wars and periods of frosty peace.

Here is how the relationships have played out for some major Arab countries, which have also had difficult ties with Palestinian leaders over the years, complicating efforts to stabilise the Middle East.

EGYPT

Israel and Egypt, the most populous Arab state, fought wars in 1948, 1956, 1967 and 1973. But Egypt struck the first Arab peace deal with Israel in 1978 at Camp David. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, who agreed the deal, was assassinated three years later.

The peace treaty remains deeply unpopular among Egyptians according to opinion polls, b

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