The Israel-Palestine Conflict
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The Israel-Palestine Conflict
Where is Israel/Palsetine/Canaan??
Israel=Canaan=Palestine
History of Palestine/Israel
1900 BC - 70 AD Jews live in Canaan (Israel/Palestine)
History of Palestine/Israel
1500’s – 1922 (after WWI) Ottoman Empire
(Muslims) owns/controls Palestine/Israel
History of Palestine/Israel
VERY IMPORTANT: Both Jews and Muslims developed long term ties and claims to the land (holy sites, etc.)
History of Palestine/Israel
1920’s – 1948: British Ownership Britain gains ownership in the area Arabs (Palestinians) still live there Many Jews were starting to migrate back
to their “homeland” (Zionism) Zionism: movement to establish a
state/country in the area that is defined as Israel.
British Empire
History of Palestine/Israel
Early 1940s: Holocaust Many Jews migrate back to Israel/Palestine
to escape persecution from the Nazis After the Holocaust, the United Nations
thought it would be a good idea to create a Jewish state for Jews to live….they chose the land of modern day Israel/Palestine
Essentially, Israel was created overnight
History of Palestine/Israel
1947 (After WW II) In response to the Holocaust, the newly
formed UN proposes different Jewish and Arab States in Palestine/Israel
They looked at where the current populations lived and divided it accordingly
After the UN proposal (1947)
Conflict has resulted ever since…especially over these four areas West Bank – area on west bank of Jordan
River Gaza Strip – eastern coast of Mediterranean Golan Heights – Israeli occupied territory
bordering Syria Sinai Peninsula – area near southwestern
border of Israel
History of Palestine/Israel
1967: Six Day War Arab nations (Egypt, Syria, Lebanon) were
organizing an Arab attack on Israel Israel launched a pre-emptive attack taking
control over the four areas previously listed This one of the most tense times between
the two cultures (Jews and Arabs) Most of the conflict between the two groups
has been in the form of terrorism…not war
What does it look like?
Gaza Strip 5 October 2000 Funeral of a Palestinian killed the day before. Khan Younis. 5 October 2000
Demonstration of support for Arafat during the Camp David negotiations. Ramallah. July 2000
Two main groups involved Palestinian Arabs (Muslim)
Israelis (Jewish)
The Palestinian Arabs Other titles: Palestinians, Muslims, Arabs,
PLO Palestinian Arabs are a stateless nation
Stateless Nation: a nation of people that doesn’t have a territory to occupy (p 526)
They are still organized as a people; they call themselves the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization) PLO: a group formed in the 1960s to regain the
Arab land in Israel for Palestinian Arabs (p 513)
The Palestinian Arabs (continued)
PLO leader was Yasser Arafat (right) until he died in 2004…now it is Mahmoud Abbas (left) who was voted in after Arafats death
Israelis
Other names: Jews People who occupy and run the modern
state (country) of Israel They are mostly Jewish. Some Muslims
and Christians Type of Govt: Parliamentary Democracy