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Title: Whats the Matter in Israel


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Whats the Matter in Israel?
A Brief History
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Judea to Palestine
  • Originally given to
  • Abraham
  • Palestinians settled when Jews scattered by
    Romans
  • Palestinians have lived there thousands of years

3
1917 Balfour Declaration
  • Weizmann petitioned British
  • Zionism
  • Land promised
  • to Jews, Arabs,
  • French

4
1947 Partition
  • Arabs revolt against UN plan, but Israel prevails
  • 726,000 Palestinian refugees

5
Conflict
  • 1956 Sinai War
  • 1967 Six Day War
  • 1973 Yom Kippur War
  • 1982 First Lebanon War
  • 2006 Second Lebanon War
  • Historically, Israel
  • has won in these
  • conflicts

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PLO
  • Palestinian Liberation Organization
  • 1988 Oslo Accords
  • 1993 renounce violence

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2000 Second Intifada
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Leaders
Former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon
Chairman of PLO Yasser Arafat
Current Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert
President of Palestinian National
Authority Mhmoud Abbas
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