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Arab-Israeli Conflict • Arab Nationalism vs. Jewish Nationalism

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Palestinian nationalism grew with general Arab nationalism in the Ottoman Empire

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Nationalism in Europe

stimulated ideas for a Jewish

nation.

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1897: Theodore Herzl founded the

World Zionist Organization

(WZO)

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Zionism: the movement to

create a Jewish nation in Palestine

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Theodore Herzl

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The Zionists encouraged

Jewish settlement in

Palestine

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The Zionist threat helped

define them as separate

nationalists

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Despite much Arab opposition, most of the land was purchased

from Arab owners

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Palestine: British mandate after

WWI

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1917: The Balfour

Declaration (page 587- last

paragraph)

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Hatred and distrust grew

between Arabs and Jews under British control

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The 1936-1939 Arab Palestinian

Revolt was a turning point.

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Haganah, a defense force,

was formed against Arab

violence.

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By 1936 it had 40,000

troops

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England, caught between Arabs

and Jews, restricted

immigration.

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The Holocaust united Jews (esp. the U.S.)

for the idea of a Jewish state and

WWII weakened the British.

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1946: Irgun bombed the King David Hotel, the British military headquarters.

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90 people were killed

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The British decided to leave

and turn over the problem to

the U.N.

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The U.N. Partition Plan 1947

Palestine divided between the Jews and the Arabs; Jerusalem

internationalized

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The Jews accepted the

partition.

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1948: David Ben-Gurion

announced Israel’s

independence

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The Arabs rejected the partition.

Egypt, Lebanon, Jordan, Syria, and

Iraq attacked.

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War for Israeli Independence

1948 Israel defeated Arabs

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Three More Wars• War in the Sinai (1956) - Raids and reprisals between the

Arabs and Israel, and Egypt's seizure of the Suez Canal, led to Israel's invasion of the Sinai Peninsula. Israel withdrew in 1957 after its access to the Persian Gulf was guaranteed by the United Nations.

• Six Day War (1967 War): Israel captured Sinai Peninsula, Golan Heights, the West Bank, the Old City of Jerusalem (which Israel later annexed), and Gaza. The war ended by a U.N.-arranged cease-fire. The United States called on the Israelis to withdraw from occupied territories but did not specify how much land it should give up.

• Yom Kippur War (1973) - Egypt and Syria launched a joint attack on Israel on the Jewish holy day, Yom Kippur, to regain lost territory. Caught off-guard, Israel took several days to mobilize, suffering heavy casualties, but it forced the opposition back. Establishes Israel as the dominant military power in the region

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Ben-Gurion became Israel’s

first prime minister.

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Israel became a multi-party

parliamentary democracy.

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1958-1960 Arafat founded Fatah: The Palestinian

National Liberation Movement

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1964: Palestinian Liberation

Organization (PLO) is founded.

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1970

1974

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2004: Arafat Died

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Mahmoud Abbas became the next leader

of the PLO

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Camp David Accords 1979

• U.S. President Jimmy Carter, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat. Egypt and Israel signed the first peace treaty between Israel and an Arab nation. It formally ended the state of war that had existed between them for 30 years. In return for Egypt's recognition of Israel's right to exist, Israel returned the Sinai Peninsula. The two nations also formally established diplomatic relations.

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Oslo Accords 1993• Secret negotiations between Israel and the PLO

resulted in a treaty that included mutual recognition, limited self-rule for Palestinians

Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin agreed to work towards a Palestinian state

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Identifications

• OPEC

• Refugee

• Intifada

• Occupied territories

• Camp David Accords

• Oslo Accords

• Nationalism

• Shatt-al-Arab

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Arafat and Rabin were awarded the Nobel Peace

Prize

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“Road Map” to Peace 2003

• A plan developed by the European Union, Russia, UN, and United States and presented to the Palestinian Authority and the Israeli government. A three phase peace process that culminates with the creation of a Palestinian state.

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2005: Israel began removing

all Jewish settlers from the occupied

territories (Gaza)

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In 2006 Fatah lost elections for the PA to the Islamic fundamentalist party Hamas

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Abbas dismissed the Hamas

government and currently rules by

decree

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Remaining Issues to Peace

• Control of Jerusalem• Palestinian Statehood (Borders)• Palestinian Refugees Right to

return• Jewish Settlements in the West

Bank • Terrorism