The Israel-Palestine Conflict

1. The Israel-Palestine Conflict

2. Where is Israel/Palsetine/Canaan?? Israel=Canaan=Palestine

3. History of Palestine/Israel • 1900 BC - 70 AD • Jews live in Canaan (Israel/Palestine)

4. History of Palestine/Israel • 1500’s – 1922 (after WWI) • Ottoman Empire (Muslims) owns/controls Palestine/Israel

5. History of Palestine/Israel • VERY IMPORTANT: Both Jews and Muslims developed long term ties and claims to the land (holy sites, etc.)

6. 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.

7. British Empire

8. 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

9. 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

10. 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

11. 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

12. What does it look like?

15. Gaza Strip 5 October 2000 Funeral of a Palestinian killed the day before. Khan Younis. 5 October 2000

16. Demonstration of support for Arafat during the Camp David negotiations. Ramallah. July 2000

21. Two main groups involved • Palestinian Arabs (Muslim) • Israelis (Jewish)

22. 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)

23. 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

24. 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