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

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1917 Balfour Declaration

• Weizmann petitioned British
• Zionism
• Land promised
• to Jews, Arabs,
• French

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1947 Partition

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

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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