Wii’re Attempting to find a Solution

1. Wii’re Attempting to find a Solution (We’re) By Marissa Titus, Nick Agnes, Jose Torres, and Shay Nikle

2. Zionism and Persecution • Zionism-movement (started in 19th Century) to try to create and develop a Jewish nation in Palestine • Supported the state of Isreal since 1948 • Persecution-treating a race or group of people with cruel or unfair treatment (because of ethnic origin or religious beliefes) http://revoltoftheplebs.wordpress.com/2011/01/06/v-for-zionism/

3. US Relationship with Israel • US committed to protecting Israel • US is a large share of its world-wide economic and security assistance • A lot of countries don’t see Israel as a country • Israeli Leaders • Prime Minister-Binyamin Netanyahu • President-Shimon Peres • Vice Prime Ministers-Moshe Yaalon and Silvan Shalom http://imeu.net/news/article0014362.shtml http://www.internationaleducationmedia.com/israel/

4. Establishing of Israel • Jewish community needed a independent Jewish state after the Holocaust • Needed it for a safe haven for Jews • Established in 1948 • 50 years of effort started by Theodore Herzl • Balfour Declaration of 1917 • Helped show British Government’s support of the creation of a homeland for Jews • Violence between Palestine’s Jewish and Arab communities increased after World War I • British support led to the 1947 UN partition plan • Would have divided Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states with Jerusalem under UN administration • Israel proclaimed a state May 14, 1948 • Started army invasions from Arab states

5. Israelis and Palestinians • Israelis fear Palestinian militants are terrorist • Don’t think they will compromise • Israeli leaders no longer trust Palestinian leaders • There were terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians when Israelis felt peace negotiations were running fairly • Israelis don’t think they have mistreated Palestinians • Israelis are just scared and want to keep people safe even though it’s unfair to Palestinians that they are all viewed as terrorists Obstacles in the way of a Peace Settlement • Israelis don’t think Palestinians will negotiate • Israelis fear Palestinian terrorist attacks • Israelis don’t feel safe enough to reduce control of Palestinian territories http://onlineaikido.com/category/blog-tags/palestine

6. Terrorism • Terrorism is not new, and even though it has been used since the beginning of recorded history it can be relatively hard to define. Terrorism has been described variously as both a tactic and strategy; a crime and a holy duty; a justified reaction to oppression and an inexcusable abomination. George Habash was involved in terrorism. Habash masterminded the hijackings of four Western airliners over the United States, Europe, the Far East and the Persian Gulf. The aircraft were blown up, after the passengers and crews were forced to disembark. Terrorist groups Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), Hamas,Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP).

7. What are the goals of terrorism?? • Produce widespread fear • Obtain worldwide, national, or local recognition for their cause by attracting the attention of the media • Harass, weaken, or embarrass government security forces so that the government overreacts and appears repressive • Steal or extort money and equipment, especially weapons and ammunition vital to the operation of their group • Destroy facilities or disrupt lines of communication in order to create doubt that the government can provide for and protect its citizens • Discourage foreign investments, tourism, or assistance programs that can affect the target country’s economy and support of the government in power • Influence government decisions, legislation, or other critical decisions • Free prisoners • Satisfy vengeance • Turn the tide in a guerrilla war by forcing government security forces to concentrate their efforts in urban areas. This allows the terrorist group to establish itself among the local populace in rural areas

8. Our solution. • The leader of Israel and the leader of Palestine should get together and discuss which areas of land are most important to each other’s people for religious reasons. People would get the land more important to them (places sacred to Jews belong to the Israelis and places sacred to the Muslims belong to the Palestinians). Any place that is sacred to both can be shared. After the sacred lands are figured out the rest of the land will be divided up so that each side would get and equal amount (based on things like how much land is farmable). Anyone who is on the other side’s land after the change of land ownership would be bought out of their house and given time to move to their side’s land. However in order for any of this to happen terrorists would first have to stop attacks so that the Israelis would feel safe to give over more land.

9. People still not happy with the situation.. • Anyone who still does not like how things were worked out receives a Wii and can battle it out virtually where no one gets hurt. Anyone who continues terrorist attacks will be lured onto a plane with cake and brownies and the promise of receiving a kitty when they reach their vacation destination, Hawaii. After getting on the plane and flying out into the ocean it will “mysteriously” crash killing all the terrorists since it just so happened there were not enough parachutes for them. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/open-source/will-microsoft-ride-kinect-tiger-or-go-wii-wii-wii-all-the-way-home/7784

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