Conflict in Israel

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Conflict in Israel

• Home of Three Religions

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Canaan
Dead Sea
Sinai Peninsula
Cairo
Egypt
Nile River
Red Sea
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Isaac
Sarah
Abraham
2100 1750 BC
Hagar
Ishmael
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12 Sons Joseph
Isaac
Jacob (Renamed Israel by God)
In Egypt 400 years
Judaism
Moses
David
1000 BC
1450 BC Exodus 1400 BC
1000 years
Christianity
Jesus
30 AD
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Muhammad
Ishmael
2400 years
Islam
610 AD
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Whats Happened?

• 70 AD Second Temple destroyed by Romans
• Jewish Diaspora Jews kicked out of Middle East
• 1920 Palestine created by British
• 1947 UN divides land between Arabs and Jews
  from Europe

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• May 14, 1948 Israel declares independence
• Attacked by Egypt, Syria, Lebanon, Iraq and
  Jordan
• Called the 1948 Arab-Israeli War
• Winner Israel
• 1967 Six-Day War
• Between Israel and Egypt, Syria and Jordan
• Israel captures West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai
  Peninsula and Golan Heights (border of Syria and
  Israel)
• Beginning of the Palestinian Liberation
  Organization (PLO)

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• 1972 Massacre of Israeli athletes at Munich
  (Germany) Summer Olympics
• 11 athletes killed after being taken hostage
• Israels response Operation Wrath of God
• Hunted down and took out those involved with
  attack
• Oct, 1973 Yom Kippur War
• Against Egypt and Syria
• Winner Israel

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• 1979 Camp David Accords
• Peace Treaty between Israel (Menachim Begin) and
  Egypt (Anwar El Sadat)
• Israel gives control of Sinai Peninsula back to
  Egypt
• Egypt becomes first Arab country to recognize
  Israel
• Sadat assassinated two years later

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• 1987 1993 First Intifada
• Over 1000 killed in fighting between Palestinians
  and Israel
• 1993 Oslo Accords
• PLO gains right to govern parts of West Bank and
  Gaza Strip

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• 1994 Israel-Jordan Treaty of Peace
• Jordan becomes second Arab country to recognize
  Israel
• 2005 Israel withdraws completely from Gaza
  Strip
• Starts building security fence around West Bank
• 2006 Second Lebanon War
• Israel fights Syrian military in Lebanon

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• What does Israel want?
• End to terrorist attacks and be left alone
• Recognition of Arab countries (Egypt and Jordan
  only ones)
• Why are they so mad?
• Constant targets of military/terrorist attacks
• Suicide bombs and rocket attacks

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• What do the Palestinians want?
• Their own country (WB GS)
• Ability for Palestinian refugees to return home
• Why are they so mad?
• See Israel as illegally occupying Arab territory
• Arent letting them have total control over West
  Bank

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Terms of the Region

• Zionist movement support of a Jewish homeland in
  Israel
• Intifada uprising (Arabic)
• Used to describe armed Islamic resistance
• Jihad to struggle (Arabic) Holy War
• Can be religious/personal or military
• Islamic Jihad is paramilitary terrorist group
• Right of Return Palestinian argument that
  refugees have the right to return to their lands
  that were taken by Israel
• Palestinian National Authority The Palestinian
  government

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Mount Moriah

• What has happened on Mount Moriah?
• The Sacrifice
• Mohammad left Earth with Angel Gabriel to visit
  Allah in heaven (The Night Journey)
• Jewish Temple, Holy of Holies
• All three things happened on the same spot on top
  of Mount Moriah

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Western Wall
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Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem
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The 5 Pillars of Islam
Witnessing Prayer Charity Fasting Pilgrimage
Witness to others that Allah is the one true God Pray 5 times a day, facing Mecca Give money to poor, hungry, needy Ramadan No eating, drinking, etc from dawn to sunset reading Quran Hajj Pilgrimage to Mecca
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Hajj Pilgrimage to Mecca

• Important Imitates Muhammad and ritual of
  rebirth
• Events
• Tawaf circle Kabba 7 times
• Walk between hills of Safa and Marwa 7 times
• Meditate
• Stoning of the Devil fling pebbles at walls
  called Jamarat
• Must make at least once in your life

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Hajj in Mecca
Kaaba On one corner is a black stone that is
thought to have been placed there by Abraham
http//www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2002/hajj/
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Stoning of the devil
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