Adopted from Ms. Susan M. Pojer
Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY
Zionism
Theodore Herzl1860-1904
GOALS:The spiritual andpolitical renewal ofthe Jewish peoplein its ancestralhomeland ofPalestine.
Freedom from Western anti-Semitism.
The Middle East in 1914
Sykes-Picot Agreement, 1916
The Arab Revolt: 1916-1918
British Promise to the Jews: Balfour Declaration,
1917
Sir Arthur James Balfour
Br. Foreign Secretary
His Majesty’s Government views with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people and will use their best endeavors to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine…
The League of Nations Mandates
Oil Discovered in Mesopotamia! First discovered on Masjid-I Suleiman
in Persiain 1908.
Turkish-Petroleum Co. [TPC] founded in 1911 drill for oil in Mosul, Mesopotamia.
Britain signed a secret agreement with the sheikh of Kuwait who, while outwardly pledgingallegiance to the Ottoman Sultan in Istanbul,promised exclusive oil rights to the British.
Kuwait became a British protectorate in November, 1914.
In 1927, oil was struck in Kirkuk, Iraq, and the Iraq Petroleum Co. [IPC] was created.
Oil Becomes the New International
“Coin of the Realm!” American oil
companies [Texaco & Chevron], gainoil concessions in Bahrainin 1929.
In 1933, American oil
companies win an oilconcession in Saudi Arabia.
ARAMCO [Arab-American Oil Co,] is created in 1939.
Essential Question: How did Britain’s
actions in Palestine after 1918 lay the
groundwork for the on-going conflict between the Jews and the Arabs
in the Middle East today?
Jews & Arabs in Palestine, 1920 × In 1920, there
was 1 Jew toevery 10 Arabs inPalestine.
× By 1947, the ratio was 2 Arabs forevery Jew.
The Arabs felt that they were loosing control of their “country!”
British Mandate
in PalestineCreated
July, 1922
Jewish Settlements: The Kibbutz System
First one founded in 1908. Communal living. “Make the Desert
Bloom!”
The Peel Commissi
on Partition
Plan, 1937
Hitler’s
“FinalSolutio
n” The Jewish population in each country in
1942.
Aliyah Bet : Illegal Jewish Immigration
Aliyah Bet Illegal Jewish immigration to Palestine.
The Exodus, 1947.
Palestine
Population in 1946
Jewish “Freedom Fighters”
(or “Terrorists”?)
Irgun Zvai Leumi[Natl. Military
Org.]
Avraham Stern &The Stern Gang
U. N. Partition Plan of 1947
Israel Becomes a Nation:
May 14, 1948
David Ben-Gurion,
1st Prime Minister
Chaim Weizmann,
1st President
War Begins!: May 15, 1948
Arab Refugees, 1948
The Palestinian Diaspora begins!
Armistice Signed, 1949
Israel:1947
&Israel:1949
Palestinian Refugees
Palestinian Diaspora
Six-Day War (1967)
UN Resolution 242
UN Resolution 338
Palestine Liberation Organization
Yassir Arafat
Camp David Accords (1979)
President President Prime Minister
Anwar Sadat Jimmy Carter Menachem Begin
of Egypt of the U. S. Of Israel
Camp David Accords (1979)
Palestinian Intifada-Part I
(1987-1993)
Palestinian Intifada-Part I
(1987-1993)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict
You tube video link
• http://youtu.be/vXKba7SHPvw how the Arab israeli conflict started-history of Palestine-1948