Prelude to Intifada

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Prelude to Intifada

• Palestinian-Israeli conflict key background
  points

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Terminology Who are the main parties involved?

• Palestinians
• Israelis

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Where is the conflict?
Palestine
Israel
Israel-Palestine
Palestinian Authority
Gaza Strip
Judea Samaria
West Bank
Occupied Territories
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Point 1

• Conflict originated as a (secular) nationalist
  conflict over land
• Religious overtones in recent decades

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Point 2

• Conflict is quite recent (early 20th century)

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Palestine under Ottoman rule, 1400s-1917
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Some demographics

• 1878 443,000 Arabs 15,000 Jews
• 1914 560,000 Arabs 80,000 Jews.
• Arab pop 84 Sunni Muslim, 16 Christian
• Jewish pop about 70 longtime inhabitants, about
  30 Zionists
• 1933 950,000 Arabs 280,000 Jews
• 1946 1.26 million Arabs 608,000 Jews
• 2004 Israel 6.5 million people
• About 20 non-Jewish, mostly Palestinian Arab
• 2004 West Bank Gaza 3 million people

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Palestine under British rule (Palestine Mandate),
1917-1948
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Israel and Occ. Territories after the 1967
Six-Day War
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Point 3

• Both sides see themselves as engaged in a
  fundamental struggle for national survival, and
  as having been victimized by history

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Point 4

• Movement vs state asymmetric power relations

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Prelude to Intifada Palestinian Grievances

• Loss of land
• 1981 Israel annexes East Jerusalem extra W.
  Bank land
• Settlements and land seizures
• by 1985 Israelis control over 52 of West Bank
  land and at least 40 of the Gaza Strip.
• 1977-1985 119 new Israeli settlements

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Grievances Military Administration Lack of
Citizenship

• Collective punishment
• Deportation
• Detentions
• Curfews
• Building restrictions

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Grievances Economic