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The Roots of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (1890s-2012)

The Roots of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (1890s-2012). Adopted from Ms. Susan M. Pojer Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY. Zionism. GOALS : The spiritual and political renewal of the Jewish people in its ancestral homeland of Palestine. Freedom from Western anti-Semitism. .

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The Roots of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (1890s-2012)

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  1. The Roots of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (1890s-2012) Adopted from Ms. Susan M. PojerHorace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

  2. Zionism • GOALS:The spiritual andpolitical renewal ofthe Jewish peoplein its ancestralhomeland ofPalestine. • Freedom from Western anti-Semitism. Theodore Herzl1860-1904

  3. The Middle East in 1914

  4. Sykes-Picot Agreement, 1916

  5. The Arab Revolt: 1916-1918

  6. British Promise to the Jews: Balfour Declaration, 1917 His Majesty’s Government views with favor the establishment in Palestine of anational home for the Jewish people and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine… Sir Arthur James BalfourBr. Foreign Secretary

  7. The League of Nations Mandates

  8. Oil Discovered in Mesopotamia! • First discovered on Masjid-I Suleiman in Persiain 1908. • Turkish-Petroleum Co. [TPC] founded in 1911 drill for oil in Mosul, Mesopotamia. • Britain signed a secret agreement with the sheikh of Kuwait who, while outwardly pledgingallegiance to the Ottoman Sultan in Istanbul,promised exclusive oil rights to the British. • Kuwait became a British protectorate in November, 1914. • In 1927, oil was struck in Kirkuk, Iraq, and the Iraq Petroleum Co. [IPC] was created.

  9. Oil Becomes the New International“Coin of the Realm!” • American oil companies [Texaco & Chevron], gainoil concessions in Bahrainin 1929. • In 1933, American oil companies win an oilconcession in Saudi Arabia. • ARAMCO [Arab-American Oil Co,] is created in 1939.

  10. Essential Question: How did Britain’s actions in Palestine after 1918 lay the groundwork for the on-going conflict between the Jews and the Arabs in the Middle East today?

  11. Jews & Arabs in Palestine, 1920 • In 1920, there was 1 Jew toevery 10 Arabs inPalestine. • By 1947, the ratio was 2 Arabs forevery Jew. The Arabs felt that they were loosing control of their “country!”

  12. British Mandate in PalestineCreatedJuly, 1922

  13. Jewish Settlements: The Kibbutz System • First one founded in 1908. • Communal living. • “Make the DesertBloom!”

  14. The Peel Commission Partition Plan, 1937

  15. Hitler’s“FinalSolution” The Jewish population in each country in 1942.

  16. Aliyah Bet : Illegal Jewish Immigration

  17. Aliyah Bet • Illegal Jewish immigration to Palestine. • The Exodus, 1947.

  18. Palestine Population in 1946

  19. Jewish “Freedom Fighters”(or “Terrorists”?) Irgun Zvai Leumi[Natl. Military Org.] Avraham Stern &The Stern Gang

  20. U. N. Partition Plan of 1947

  21. Israel Becomes a Nation:May 14, 1948 Chaim Weizmann,1st President David Ben-Gurion,1st Prime Minister

  22. War Begins!: May 15, 1948

  23. Arab Refugees, 1948 The Palestinian Diaspora begins!

  24. Armistice Signed, 1949

  25. Israel:1947&Israel:1949

  26. Palestinian Refugees Palestinian Diaspora

  27. Six-Day War (1967) • UN Resolution 242 • UN Resolution 338

  28. Palestine Liberation Organization Yassir Arafat

  29. Camp David Accords (1979) President President Prime MinisterAnwar Sadat Jimmy Carter Menachem Begin of Egypt of the U. S. Of Israel

  30. Camp David Accords (1979)

  31. Palestinian Intifada-Part I(1987-1993)

  32. Palestinian Intifada-Part I(1987-1993) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict

  33. You tube video link • http://youtu.be/vXKba7SHPvwhow the Arab israeli conflict started-history of Palestine-1948

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