The Israel-Palestine Conflict. Where is Israel/Palsetine/Canaan?? Israel=Canaan=Palestine...

The Israel-Palestine Conflict

Where is Israel/Palsetine/Canaan??

Israel=Canaan=Palestine

History of Palestine/Israel

1900 BC - 70 AD Jews live in Canaan (Israel/Palestine)

History of Palestine/Israel

1500’s – 1922 (after WWI) Ottoman Empire

(Muslims) owns/controls Palestine/Israel

History of Palestine/Israel

VERY IMPORTANT: Both Jews and Muslims developed long term ties and claims to the land (holy sites, etc.)

History of Palestine/Israel

1920’s – 1948: British Ownership Britain gains ownership in the area Arabs (Palestinians) still live there Many Jews were starting to migrate back

to their “homeland” (Zionism) Zionism: movement to establish a

state/country in the area that is defined as Israel.

British Empire

History of Palestine/Israel

Early 1940s: Holocaust Many Jews migrate back to Israel/Palestine

to escape persecution from the Nazis After the Holocaust, the United Nations

thought it would be a good idea to create a Jewish state for Jews to live….they chose the land of modern day Israel/Palestine

Essentially, Israel was created overnight

History of Palestine/Israel

1947 (After WW II) In response to the Holocaust, the newly

formed UN proposes different Jewish and Arab States in Palestine/Israel

They looked at where the current populations lived and divided it accordingly

After the UN proposal (1947)

Conflict has resulted ever since…especially over these four areas West Bank – area on west bank of Jordan

River Gaza Strip – eastern coast of Mediterranean Golan Heights – Israeli occupied territory

bordering Syria Sinai Peninsula – area near southwestern

border of Israel

History of Palestine/Israel

1967: Six Day War Arab nations (Egypt, Syria, Lebanon) were

organizing an Arab attack on Israel Israel launched a pre-emptive attack taking

control over the four areas previously listed This one of the most tense times between

the two cultures (Jews and Arabs) Most of the conflict between the two groups

has been in the form of terrorism…not war

What does it look like?

Gaza Strip 5 October 2000 Funeral of a Palestinian killed the day before. Khan Younis. 5 October 2000

Demonstration of support for Arafat during the Camp David negotiations. Ramallah. July 2000

Two main groups involved Palestinian Arabs (Muslim)

Israelis (Jewish)

The Palestinian Arabs Other titles: Palestinians, Muslims, Arabs,

PLO Palestinian Arabs are a stateless nation

Stateless Nation: a nation of people that doesn’t have a territory to occupy (p 526)

They are still organized as a people; they call themselves the PLO (Palestinian Liberation Organization) PLO: a group formed in the 1960s to regain the

Arab land in Israel for Palestinian Arabs (p 513)

The Palestinian Arabs (continued)

PLO leader was Yasser Arafat (right) until he died in 2004…now it is Mahmoud Abbas (left) who was voted in after Arafats death

Israelis

Other names: Jews People who occupy and run the modern

state (country) of Israel They are mostly Jewish. Some Muslims

and Christians Type of Govt: Parliamentary Democracy