Middle East Conflict The Arab-Israeli Conflict

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Middle East ConflictThe Arab-Israeli Conflict

• AP World History
• Unit 5

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The British in Palestine, 1919-1947

• In 1920, there was one Jew to every 10 Arabs in
  Palestine.
• By 1947, the ratio was two Arabs for every Jew.
• The Arabs felt that they were loosing control of
  their country.

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Palestine Arab Revolt 1936-1939

• Goals of the revolt
• End Jewish immigration to Palestine.
• End to the transfer of lands to Jewish owners.
• A new general representative government.
• The Peel Commission Partition Plan in 1937.

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Israel would became a nation on May 14, 1948.
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War begins on May 15 and Arabs flee the region
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Israel in 1947
Israel in 1949
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Palestinian Diaspora
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Suez crisis of 1956
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Six-Day War of 1967
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Palestinian liberation organization

• Yasser Arafat and Al Fatah

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Yom-kipper war in October 1973
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Camp David peace accords of 1979
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1st Palestinian intifada, 1987-1993

• Intifada means uprising

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Israeli expansion from 1948-1988
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The conflict today

• Todays population distribution
• 82 Jewish
• 16 Arab
• Israeli Government
• The Knesset
• Palestinian Authority
• Yasser Arafat
• Former leader of the PLO and Al Fatah
• Mahmoud Abbas
• Current leader
• Hamas
• Islamic Resistance Movement
• The 1993 Oslo Peace Accords

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The conflict today

• United States Impact
• Post World War II
• Six-Day War
• Today
• The Second Intifada in 2000.
• Arafats death in 2004.
• Gaza Strip Pullout in 2005.