Sunday, March 7, 2021

Arab-Israeli Conflict Notes

Student Learning Objective- After 4 days of discussion and lecture, students will be able to summarize, analyze and evaluate the Arab-Israeli Conflict.

Directions: Discussion and lecture will go in this order.  Write what you need to write in order to keep up.  Feel free to use a notebook also.
Day 1
Brainstorm the most serious conflicts in the world today

Brainstorm mistreatment of Jews

Brainstorm mistreatment of Arabs or Muslims

Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Arab-Israeli Conflict

Car analogy

Class discussion- try to solve the car analogy

Ancient Israel (Israelites)
Abraham
Moses
David
Solomon
66 AD- Diaspora

Roman Empire sells land to Palestine
Watch “History of Religion in 90 Seconds (Maps of War)”
Discussion- Solve the real version of the “car analogy”

Day 2
Pogroms
Dreyfus Affair
Holocaust

Zionist Manifesto by Theodore Herzl (1897)

Zionism

Hussayn-McMahon Letters (1915)

Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916)

Balfour Declaration (1917)

Holocaust (1938-1945) film clip
White Paper of 1939
WWII ends (1945)
1947- UN partitions Israel and Palestine 50/50
“2 State Solution”

Day 3
1948- War for Independence (Film clip available week of 3/11)



1956- Suez War (Film clip available week of 3/11)


1967- Six Day War (Film clip available week of 3/11)



1972- Munich Olympics (Film clip available week of 3/11)


1973- Yom Kippur War (Ramadan War)

1978- Camp David Peace Agreement (Film clip available week of 3/11)




Day 4
1981- Assassination of President Sadat (film clip)

Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)

Yasser Arafat



Palestine Authority

Mahmoud Abbas

Hamas

Fatah

Hezbollah



1993-1994- Peace brokered between Israel and PLO (film clip)



1995- Yitzhak Rabin (film clip)

Utility laws
Military
Gun (control) laws
West Bank and Gaza Strip
Right of Return
Security Wall


Discussion- 1 State Solution or 2 State Solution (or 3 State Solution)

Discussion- Pro-Israeli or Pro-Arab? (Evaluate!)

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