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The Story of Ishmael and Isaac. Conflict Over Palestine Religion and Control of Land. Standards SS7H2: The student will analyze continuity and change in Southwest Asia (Middle East) leading to the 21 st century.
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The Story of Ishmael and Isaac Conflict Over Palestine Religion and Control of Land
StandardsSS7H2: The student will analyze continuity and change in Southwest Asia (Middle East) leading to the 21st century b. Explain the historical reasons for the establishment of the modern State of Israel in 1948; include Jewish connections to the land, the Holocaust, anti-Semitism; and Zionist in Europe
Vocabulary • Israel: A Jewish state established in 1948. Israel is the Jewish homeland • Palestine: A historical region at the center of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Palestine is holy to Muslims, Christians and Jews.
Vocabulary • PLO: Palestinian Liberation Organization; • A group that represents Arab people of Palestine who were displaced by the establishment of Israel.
AbrahamThe Father of the JewsReligious Background • Abraham and his wife were unable to bear a child so Abraham had a son with his Egyptian handmaiden, who became his second wife Hager. • A year later Abraham and Sarah were able to have a son. His name was Isaac.
Ishmael and IsaacSons of Abraham • Ishmael was the first born son of Abraham therefore Ishmael was to claim the inheritance according to God’s covenant. • One day Ishmael was mocking and making fun of Isaac. • Because of this incident, Sarah instructed that Ishmael and his mother Hagar be ousted from the inheritance and land.
Who are the Palestinians?Religious Fight over Land • Ishmael grew up in the wilderness, became an archer and married. • A great nation of people came out of the descendants of Ishmael, Palestinians. • When Ishmael came home to claim his father’s inheritance because he was the first born, it has been a fight over land between the Palestinians and Israelis until this day.
Conflict Over PalestineTextbook Pages 186-187 • After WWI, Great Britain controlled Palestine. • Palestine is an Arab region that also the land of the Jews who have lived there 2000 years earlier. • Jews is a story of exile. Jews were facing persecution in Eastern Europe such as the Holocaust so they began to migrate to Palestine. • Holocaust: Six million Jews were killed in concentration camps and thousands had to leave to avoid death.
Conflict over PalestineZionism • Palestine was already home to Arabs. • The Palestinians did not want their homeland to became a Jewish state. • In 1947, Great Britain asked the United Nations to back them up. • Zionism: This when the world’s Jews returned to their homeland of Palestine where the Jews once lived in Biblical times.
Anti-Semitism • Hatred of Jews simply because they practice the Jewish faith.
United Nations • An international organization whose purpose is to facilitate cooperation in international law , international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and achievement of world peace. The UN was founded in 1945. • United Nations Headquarters resides in international territory in New York City, with further main offices at Geneva , Nairobi and Vienna.
Conflict over Palestine • United Nations solved the problem by partitioning or dividing Palestine. • One part for Jews and another part for the Palestinians. • The Jews agreed. They thought that this was a great ideal. • The Palestinians disagreed.
Conflict over Palestine • In 1948: Jewish leaders declared Israel an independent state. • The state of Israel was created.
Conflict over Palestine • Arab nations were angry. • Tensions erupted into violence. • The Arab nations of Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Jordan and Lebanon declared war on Israel. • Half of the Arabs in Israel fled as refugees.
Arab-Israeli Conflict • The Arab-Israeli Conflict plays a major role in difficulties that the United States and the rest of the world face when trying to find peaceful settlements to Southwest Asian, or Middle Eastern Conflicts.
Arab- Israeli Wars • About 700,000 Palestinian Arabs had to leave homes. (Refugees) • Arab Palestinians went to other Arab nations or UN camps. • Israel won the war. • Many Jews came to Israel. • Israel and Egypt fought a 2nd war in 1956.
PLOPalestinian Liberation Organization • In 1964, The PLO was formed. • The main reason is because they did not recognize Israel’s right to exist.
Arab-Israeli WarsContinuing Conflict • In 1967 and 1973, a third and fourth war was fought. • Syria and Jordan bombed Israel. • Israel responded with attacks on Syria, Jordan and Egypt. • During the Arab-Israeli War of 1967, Israel took control of the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. Israel now control this area. • Through the years the territories were passed back and forth. • Winning the Arab-Israeli Wars, allowed the Jews to take over even more land than had originally been planned.
4th Arab-Israeli War • In 1973, Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in attempts to regain lost territories. • Israel defeated them again!!
Israel and Palestinian TerritoriesRefer to textbook Pages 196-198 • Both the Palestinians and Israelis see the region as their homeland. • Palestinians want to live in Arab-dominated state • Jews want to live in a Jewish dominated state. • Both groups claim Jerusalem as their capital. • Palestinians want to take back their land that once belonged to the families which is now Israel.
Attempts at Peace • In 1979, Egypt a country in North Africa was the first Arab nation to make peace with Israel. • Anwar Sadat was the president at the time. • He shared the Nobel Peace Prize with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin. • In 1979, Egypt and Israel signed a peace treaty.
1979 Peace Prize WinnersAnwar Sadat and Menachem BeginHistoric Time in History
Governor of GeorgiaPresident of the United StatesPeace Prize: 2002
Peace • Egypt made peace with Israel in 1979. • This peace did not last. • In 1993, Israel and the PLO signed an agreement recognizing Israel’s right to exist. • Israel returned land to the Palestinians • In 1994, Israel and Jordan signed a Peace Treaty.
Assassination • In 1981, the Muslim Brotherhood, an extreme Muslim group assassinated President Anwar Sadat of Egypt. • The Brotherhood claims the Egyptian government is being untrue to the principles of Islam by working with Israel and the United States
Land and Religion • The problems between these two people still exist, even people on both sides continue to find ways to make peace. • Arab countries in the area are strong supporters of Palestinians. • The United States are strong supporters of Israel.