ISRAEL A LAND OF CONFLICT

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ISRAEL A LAND OF CONFLICT
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I. History (before WWII)

• a. Jewish people claim Palestine as HOLY LAND
• - 3000 years ago Jewish kings ruled the land
• b. Palestinian people claim Palestine as HOLY
  LAND
• - The land belonged to them when Jews were
  forced out in 135 AD.
• c. In 1800s, the Jewish people started returning
  to their homeland.
• -ZIONIST MOVEMENT Jewish immigrants returned
  to Palestine.
• - Non-Jewish Palestinians did not like thousands
  of immigrants coming into their homeland.

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II. WORLD WAR II ISRAEL

• In Germany, millions of Jews were killed by Nazis
  and Hitler.
• -Thousands of Jews moved to Palestine
• b. After WWII, the UN wanted to divide Palestine
  into 2 states
• 1. A Palestinian state for Palestinians
• 2. A Jewish state, called ISRAEL for Jews
• - the USA supported this plan!
• - City of Jerusalem would not be a part of a
  state, it would be shared!

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WWII ISRAEL, cont.

• c. Jews were happythey got approx. 55 of the
  land of the original Palestine.
• d. Palestinians were unhappy. The neighboring
  countries were also unhappy.
• e. There was blood shed in 1948-49.
• f. 3 large scale wars fought over these
  issue1956, 1967, 1973

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1948 - 1949

• Independence and Bloodshed
• Jews Zionists claimed that Israel was an
  independent state and triggered an invasion by
  Egypt, Syria,, Lebanon and Iraq.
• 400,000 Palestinian Arabs fled Israel during the
  fighting and were in camps near the border.
• The conflict was not resolved.

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Terrorism strikes the Olympics!

• In September 1972, a Palestinian militant faction
  known as Black September killed 11 Israeli
  athletes at the Olympic Games in Munich, Germany.

Relatives of the Israeli athletes killed during
the Palestinian hostage crisis at the 1972 Munich
Olympics arrive for a memorial service at
Ben-Gurion Airport in Lod, Israel.
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- PLO Palestinian Liberation Organization

• Yasir Arafat Started a Palestinian army in
  Israel (1960s-1980s)
• 1988 - Infitada boycotts, protests, throwing
  rocks at Israeli Jews both civilians and
  soldiers.

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III. Peace Treaties

• In 1978, US President Jimmy Carter asked
  Israeli/Palestinian leaders for a peace summit
• Camp David Accords 1st peace treaty in 30
  years!
• 3 areas were set aside for Palestinians to have
  SOME self-control.
• - Gaza Strip - West Bank - Golan Heights
• d. Israelis and Palestinians still did not like
  living together. (remember INTIFADA 88)

U.S. President Jimmy Carter with Israeli Prime
Minister Menachem Begin, left, and Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat at Camp David, Maryland, in
1978.
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CURRENT CONFLICT

• In 1993 and 1995 Israel granted limited
  SELF-RULE to parts of the Gaza Strip and West
  Bank.
• 2001 Israelis elect Ariel Sharon as Prime
  Minister (military man!)
• 2002 - The U.S., E.U., U.N. and Russia submitted
  a three-phase plan calling for a Palestinian
  state and conclusive peace accord by 2005. But
  Israeli and Palestinian officials failed to reach
  any major agreements.

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CURRENT CONFLICT, cont.

• 2003 2nd Infitada - suicide bombings in major
  cities by Palestinians.
• - President Bush pushes for road map to
  Palestinian state.
• WHAT HAS HAPPENED SINCE 2003?