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The Arab-Israeli Conflict

Outline• History of British-controlled Pal

• Two key figures:

--Zionist Chaim Weizmann

--Palestinian Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini

• Partition proposals

• Post-1948 developments and recent events

Palestine• Britain’s conflicting WW I promises:

—Balfour Declaration

—McMahon-Hussein correspondence

• Mixed population: 80% Muslim, 10% Christian, 8% Jewish

• 1922: Palestine Mandate granted

Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952)

• Russian-born biochemist

• Zionist leader

• Skillful negotiator

• Well-connected

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Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti (1897-1974)

• 1921: Grand Mufti

of Palestine

• President of

Supreme Muslim Council

• Palestinian Arab

nationalist leader

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Palestine Mandate Timeline• 1920: Pogrom• 1922: Churchill

White Paper• 1929: Yom Kippur

attacks• 1936-39: Arab revolt• 1937: Peel

Commission Report

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Partition

• The territorial division of a previously unified administrative entity carried out by an external party

– vs. secession:: one part of a political entity withdrawing itself from the whole

Palestine Mandate Timeline• 1939 White Paper

• WWII:

Mufti to Germany

• 1947: British decision to abandon Mandate

• 1948: British withdrawal, Arab-Jewish civil war

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Arab-Israeli Conflict• 1967 war• 1973 war• 1987 intifada• 1990s peace process• 2000 intifada• 2005 withdrawal of Gaza settlers• 2008/2009 Gaza war• “Palestine Papers” leak