The Arab Israeli Conflict

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The Arab Israeli Conflict
Whats it about?
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Where is Israel?
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What is the problem?
The Arab-Israeli conflict is one of the longest
running international disputes in world affairs
The people that live in Israel are Jews. Before
Israel existed this land was known as Palestine
and Arabs lived there.
The problem is that both the Jews and the Muslims
think that the land known as Israel belongs to
them
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Todays lesson

• To find out why the Jews think they have a claim
  to this land.

Your Booklet will help you to write your own notes
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The Promised land
Throughout Jewish history the land of Israel has
been of central importance. The Jews believe
that this area of land was given to them by GOD.
It is written in the bible v 14 and 15 of chapter
13 of Genesis
Lift up your eyes, and look from the place where
we are northward and southward, and eastward and
westward For all the land that you see I will
give to you and your family for ever
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The Promised Land
In Genesis God told Abraham to go to Caanan where
he promised that he would be the father of a
great nation of Jews.
This message that Caanan is their PROMISED LAND,
their paradise, their homeland from God was
passed down from Abraham to his son Isaac
Isaacs son, Jacob was given a new name by God and
became called ISRAEL. Thereafter the Jews were
called Israelites and their promised land was to
be called Israel.
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Where is Caanan?
In ARABIA
JORDAN
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The Romans
All is fine for the Jews in Caanan from 1200 BC
until 63 BC when Caanan became part of the Roman
Empire. The Romans renamed Caanan JUDEA
The Jews hated being under Roman control.
Why? The Romans worshipped more than one god, the
Jews only one god. The Romans taxed them
heavily. In 66 AD the Jews became trouble for the
Romans and revolted.
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The Romans
In 70 AD the Romans managed to defeat the Jews.
Thousands of Jews died in a bloody battle. In
the battle the Romans destroyed a very important
Jewish temple the temple of SOLOMON.
All that remains of this today is just one wall
this is now known as the wailing wall.
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The Romans AD135
A second revolt by the Jews. This time the Romans
really punish them.

• Their villages are destroyed
• No Jew is allowed to stay in Jerusalem
• Judea wiped from the map it now becomes
  Syria-Palestina (PALESTINE)
• The Jews are forced out and scattered throughout
  the Roman Empire. This is called the DIASPORA

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DIASPORA the scattering of the Jews
The Jews leave and go to other countries.
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Anti - Semitism
Suddenly there are Jews in countries where there
never used to be Jews. They lived in other
peoples countries but they took with them their
traditions and their religion.
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Anti - Semitism

• The way they dressed
• they cover their heads with a scull cap or a hat,
  sometimes Jews wear black.
• Their diet (they must eat animals that have
  hooves cows goats sheep BUT NOT pigs or horses.
  All blood must be drained out of an animal before
  it can be eaten

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Anti - Semitism
They were very identifiable it makes them easy
targets when something goes wrong where they are
living. The Jews get the blame for the Black
Death!
Jews are part of the Semitic race Anti-Semitism
is a particular type of racism racism against
the Jews
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The Jews are forced to live in Ghettos
The Jews were forced to live in ghettoes in
squalid and cramped conditions. They suffered
1500 years of persecution because they had been
thrown out of what they consider to be their
homeland.
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POGROM Russian for attack
One of the worst places where the Jews suffered
from anti-Semitism was in Russia in the late 19th
and early 20th centuries. Russia was suffering
from dreadful starvation who did they blame?
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POGROM
The Russian government organised and supported
violence against the Jews. This is called a
POGROM. Mobs attacked Jewish shops and
communities, 3 million Jews fled from Russia
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Where did the Jews go?
Some went to PALESTINE which they considered
their homeland - 1.5 million went to the USA.
Some of the Jews became very rich there through
money lending and banking
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The First World War
During the FWW Britain was not making much
headway What they needed was MONEY They looked
to the support of the wealthy Jews in the USA who
could lend them money to support them during the
war.
The British foreign secretary A J Balfour made a
declaration view with favour the establishment
in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish
people
What would the Jews take this to mean?
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Britain has promised them a homeland in Palestine
When the war ended Britain was given the role of
looking after Palestine
The British allowed Jewish immigration to
Palestine. Many Jews took up the offer of going
back to their homeland
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The Holocaust

• During the DIASPORA Jews had fled to Germany.
• Between 1933 and 1939 the Jews were badly
  persecuted in Hitlers Germany.
• Not allowed to own restaurants shops hotels. - -
  Not allowed to marry Germans
• Sent to concentration camps.

Hitler was trying to drive the Jews out of
Germany.
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The Final Solution
During the Second World War the Germans conquered
most of Europe result more JEWS!
AUSCHWITZ BELSEN DACHAU
6 MILLION JEWS KILLED
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The Holocaust
How do we feel about the holocaust today?
We have sympathy for the Jews THEY DESERVE a
homeland.
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Answer the Questions on your sheet
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Relating this information to the questions
The conflict is about religion so no other
factor are important. Do you think this is true?
Yes the conflict is about religion because -
Their religion meant they were thrown out of
Judea This caused the Diaspora and led to Anti -
Semitsm and the POGROMS
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Relating this information to the questions
The conflict is about religion so no other
factor are important. Do you think this is true?

• No the conflict as about land
• The land is special to the Jews promised land

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Relating this information to the questions
The conflict is about religion so no other
factor are important. Do you think this is true?
No - the conflict has also been caused by -
International involvement such as the Balfour
declaration that promised the Jews that they
could return to Palestine The holocaust has
caused world wide public sympathy and a
sympathetic feelings toward the Jews that they
deserve their own homeland