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Palestinian-Israeli Conflict. Palestinian and Israeli propaganda maps. Israeli map lumping together Arab states; depicting tiny defenseless Israel. Palestinian Map without Israel. Palestinians (in West Bank and Gaza Strip) Arab (ethnic) territoriality - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Palestinian and Israeli propaganda maps
Palestinian Mapwithout Israel
Israeli map lumping together Arab states;depicting tiny defenseless Israel
Israel
Zionism:Jewish (religious) territoriality
Israelis are multiethnicEuropean, Middle Eastern,Newer Russian, Ethiopian immigrants
Arab Israeli minority
Palestinians (in West Bank and Gaza Strip)
Arab (ethnic) territoriality
Palestinians are multireligiousMuslims and Christians
Ethnic nationalist movement, but some newer Muslim groups
Zionism - Theodore Herzl, 1896
British Palestine 1917- 48 Arab ethnic initial majority (90%)1917, Balfour Declarationsupports Zionism; immigration begins
1936-39 The “Great Uprising” - first Arab protests as Jews increasingly
Jewish religious minority grew rapidly in 1920-40s, especially during rise of Anti-semitism.
British did not allow European Jewish immigration during WWII.
UN Partition Plan, 1948• Jewish State (Israel)• Arab State (Palestine)• International Zone (Jerusalem)- never implemented
The day after the state of Israel was declared in 1848 five Arab armies from Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq invaded but were repulsed and Israel took all of the U.N. designated lands plus much of Palestinian territory (see next slide).
Jewish militia massacred scores of Palestinians. Moreover hundreds of thousands were displaced and have been refugees ever since.
Jerusalem
West (Israeli);East (Arab)with Israeli settlements
Jerusalem: Holy City to Jews, Muslims, and Christians
Israeli Settlementsand Palestinian
towns in theWest Bank, 2000
Israeli settlers see ashistoric Jewish homeland
Palestinians compareillegal settlements to
Apartheid
PalestinianAutonomy, 2000
Gradual turnover of Israeli-Occupied areas to Palestinians
for “Two-State Solution”
Plan collapsing askillings increase
Second Intifada since Sept. 2000
Israeli Defense Force reoccupies West Bank and Gaza
The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
1970s Unable to win support in U.N.; Palestinians turned to terrrorism.
1972 Munich Olympics, 11 Israeli athletes killed by PLO operatives
1974 Yasser Arafat speaks to U.N. "Today I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom
fighter's gun. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand."
Financial support for many years came from surrounding Arab nations and the U.S.S.R.
1992 PLO (Arafat) and Israel (Yitzhak Rabin) formally acknowledge one another as part of the Oslo Accord talks with Clinton.
Splinter Groups: Hamas, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Hezbollah
2005 Arafat dies.
2006 Hamas wins substantial portion of Palestinian vote.
Key Israeli Figures
David Ben Gurion - Zionist founder/victor in 1948
Yitzhak Rabin (74-77; 92-95) - recognized PLO; killed by Israeli radical after making peace overtures.
Menachem Begin (78-83) - Camp David Accord; peace with Egypt. Sadat killed by extremists in 1981.
Ehud Barak - aggressive Labor party peacemaker; lost power to right wing Sharon during violence of Second Intifada
Ariel Sharon - current prime minister; Likud Party right winger considered war criminal by many for his role is slaughter in Lebannon; in coma after stroke of early 2006. (Ehud Olmert takes over role.)
Main IssuesPalestinian
• Land• Right of Return• End to Settlements• Water Rights• Economics• Self-determination• End of Occupation• Access to Jerusalem
Israeli• Land• Security• Access to Jerusalem• Right to exist
Demographic DataPalestinian
• Pop: 3,500,000
• Migration: 2.1/1000
• Infant mortality: 26/1000
• Fertility rate: 6.55
• Life expectancy: 70.8
• GDP per capita: $625
• GDP growth rate: - 35%
• Religions: Muslim (predominantly Sunni) 98.7%, Christian 0.7%, Jewish
0.6%
Israeli• Pop: 6,000,000
• Migration: 1/1000
• Infant Mortality: 6.55/1000
• Fertility rate: 2.54
• Life Expectancy: 78.8
• GDP per capita: $19,000
• GDP growth rate: -1%• Religions: Jewish 80.1%, Muslim
14.6% (mostly Sunni Muslim), Christian 2.1%, other 3.2% (1996 est.)