The ArabIsraeli Conflict

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The Arab-Israeli Conflict

• Is Peace Possible?

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The Players

• Anwar Sadat- Egypts President
• Assassinated by Arab
• Israeli P.M. Rabin
• assassinated by Israeli
• Israeli P.M. Ben Netanyahu
• Yassir Arafat- Leader of PLO AND Ehud Barak-
  Israels last P.M.
• Ariel Sharon is Israels current P.M.

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• U.S. President Jimmy Carter
• King Hussein of Jordan
• the King of Peace
• son Abdullah II becomes king when he dies
• U.S. President William Clinton

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• Current President of Egypt- Hosni Mubarak
• Mahmoud Abbas (AKA Abu Mazen) served as
  Palestinian Prime Minister from May 1, 2003
  Sept 6, 2003.
• Re-elected after Yassir Arafats death, Jan 9,
  2005.
• Ariel Sharon served as Israeli Prime Minister
• Suffered heart attack in 2006
• Ehud Olmert- Current acting PM of Israel

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Conflict Continues Despite Talks.

• and bin Laden helps to fuel the fire of
  militant groups.

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• U.S. President Bill Clinton talks with
  Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erakat, center,
  and Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat at Camp
  David, Maryland, in June 2000.
• Violence in the Middle East worsened in 2002 with
  outbreaks such as a Palestinian gunman's assault
  on a Tel Aviv restaurant that killed three
  Israelis in March. Emergency workers attend to a
  victim in the attack.

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Jerusalem A Holy City

• Dome of the Rock
• Muslims
• Temple Mount
• Jewish
• Al-Aqsa Mosque
• Muslim built on T.M. site
• AKA Haram as-Sharif
• Wailing Wall
• Jewish
• Church of Holy Sepulcher
• Christian

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• The Tomb of the Patriarchs in Hebron on the West
  Bank is said to contain the remains of Abraham.
• Mosque of the Ascension Islam recognizes Jesus
  as prophet this Mosque is where Jesus ascended
  to heaven. Reconstruction of the original Church
  built before 392. Saladin authorized two of his
  followers to acquire the site in 1198 and it has
  remained in Muslim possession since. The stone
  floor bears a mark believed to be Jesus's
  footprint. Perhaps the reasonn for its
  unconvincing appearance today is that pilgrims in
  the Byzantine period were permitted to take bits
  of it away.

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