The+Israeli-Palestinian+Conflict

=__**Israeli-Palestinian Conflict:**__=

Essential Questions:

 * **Can people live in peace together when deeply held beliefs and views are in conflict?**- I believe that people that have strongly held beliefs and views that are in conflict can live together in peace. I think that this can be possible if both groups are willing to accept that neither will change their ways or their beliefs. - Just have to tolerate each other
 * **Should the international community play a role in helping countries establish self-determination?**-Outside help might need to step in to help fix the problem if the two countries can't agree or settle their differences with each other. - They should get involved only if there is a use of violence against the other group
 * **Is it ever OK for victims to become the persecutors?**- No, it is not okay for the victims to become the persecutors because just because they were treated badly for something they believe in, doesn't mean they can turn around and do the same exact thing to the other people, especially knowing how it felt for them. - They would no longer be the victims, they would just be creating even more victims
 * **Is violence justified when access to resources is cut off?**- Violence is not justifiable when access to resources is cut off, they would need to take steps to bringing the other group to justice without having to use violence. -
 * **Does the Holocaust excuse Israel from overreaching partition boundaries with Palestine?**- No, just because of the Holocaust, it doesn't mean that the Israeli can discriminate or use violence against the Palestinians. This was a totally different event.

- [|DJ on video] - How the video was biased: This video on the Israeli and Palestinian conflict was biased because the Israeli felt that they were only taking back what had always belonged to them after they had had it taken away and given to someone else. They didn't think that they were doing anything wrong by trying to get their own land back, but what they were doing was justifiable because they were only fighting for what was theirs. This video makes it seem like the Israeli were invading the Palestinians land for no reason other than that because they wanted it for themselves.
 * Intro to the Conflict Video: **

[|Israeli/Palestinian Conflict Terms]
 * Terms: **

**Picture Detective:**


- Israel is a big piece with a gun pointed at Palestine and is black - Other countries are all white - "He took your square--Take it back!"
 * I See || It Means ||
 * - Palestine is the smallest piece, the pawn and is white

- - Are all of these Arab nations representing the people who are against Israel? - Why does the Israeli piece have a gun and no one else? - Why are some countries further back than other/what is the significance of the placement? || - white piece moves first- Arab countries attacked first - black makes the second move in chess - they are on Palestine's side - Israel thinks that since it was their land first, that they have the right to take it back even though other people live there now || Message: Palestine was only a pawn that was being used by the rest of the Arab countries to get Palestine to take back their land from the Israeli.

**Primer Packet: All 5 Sections**
[|Guide Questions]

**Israel vs. Palestine Cartoon Video:**
Message: The message of this video was to show that there is more going on instead of just one person attacking the other. Everyone only saw the bigger kid hurting the littler one, but they didn't all of the things that the littler one did to him.

Israel was represented by the bigger boy in blue and Palestine was represented by the littler boy in green. This video was biased towards the Israeli because they show them as being the ones that were instigated to use violence against the Palestinians. - the Israeli flicks him when he was bothering him - the second time he punched him and everyone then feels bad for the boy representing Palestine Showing that they didn't start the fight but they were going to defend themselves.

**Comments on Quote:**
In the late 1800s a group of Zionists traveled to Palestine to see what it offered as a Jewish homeland. One Zionist said, when he returned to Europe: **"The bride is beautiful but she is married to another man " ** This quote means that the land that Israel wants is already taken by the Palestinians.

**Guide Questions Section 1 Reflection:**
I thought it was interesting that both Israel and Palestine were both living in the same country but were fighting to take the land for themselves. They both claimed to have the right to keep Palestine for themselves because of the history that they had with it; the Israeli's having their reason be that it was where they were from and was also the religious site of the ancient Jewish kingdom, and the Palestine's reason for wanting the land being that they had lived there peacefully for hundreds of years up until the Israeli's came back and tried to take it away from them. Other nations and international organizations impacted the conflict because firstly, Britain and France were promising countries things that they couldn't follow through with and didn't have the right to get involved with. This caused tensions with the Arabs and Israeli nations.

** Guide Questions Section 2 Reflection: **
1. How did the UN try to keep peace in the region? 2. How did war impact the region? 3. Reflect on the treatment of Palestinian refugees


 * Visual Time line of Israeli- Palestine Conflict:[[image:mastromaurowh/Timeline of Israel Palestine.PNG width="1083" height="572" caption="Timeline of Israel Palestine.PNG"]] : **
 * If this is difficult to read, the link is [|Here] **


 * Directions: Look at the map that spans 1917 to the present, make five observations about the changes you see and why they happened **

**Guide Questions Section 3 Reflection:**
The international community's role that was played in the 1967 War was that the UN tried to make peace between the two states. In the resolution they made they said that Israel had to give back the territory they had taken. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Language was used to one's advantage because Israel used the English version of the Resolution to argue that Israeli withdraw from some of the territory would satisfy the requirements of the Resolution. The French version said that they had to give back "the" territories, meaning all of the land, but the English version said "give back territories", which they took as they didn't have to give it all back. The reason for this treatment by the Israeli was because they wanted to rid themselves of non-Jews and to protect themselves of who they thought were terrorists.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. What role did the international community play in the 1967 War? **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. How can "language be used to one's advantage"? (UN resolution 242) **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Evaluate the treatment of Palestinian refugees by Israelis after the war? what are some possible reasons for this treatment? **

**Six Days War Video:**
- Syrian Ambassador charges Israeli with breaking the cease-fire at the UN conference - Israel took only six days to defeat all of their enemies - The Soviet is angry and wants Israel to - The US takes sides with Israel - Israel took the holy city which was in Jordan (Jerusalem) - Israeli Captured Bethlehem and Jerusalem, it was the first time they were going to be able to go pray at their own religious place for a long time- the Israeli acted more as tourists than fighters when they arrived to Jerusalem

**Guide Questions Section 4 Reflection:**
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Israel's response to the first intifada was to react with "force, power and beatings". Their forces killed over 1,000 Palestinians, including 200 who were under the age of 16. Israel also had the highest number of arrests and the highest per capita prison population. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">The US's role in the peace attempts in the region was to first stabilize it's position in the Middle East by promoting a resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The US pushed the Israeli to negotiate with the Palestinians and the Arab states at a multilateral conference convened in Madrid, Spain, in October of 1991. <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">At first ,Israel refused to negotiate a peace treaty with the PLO because they were afraid of Hamas (the terrorist group), but they eventually would negotiate with the PLO representatives. They took so long because they didn't want and weren't willing to give up the land they had taken over. They gave up some but didn't want it all to be taken away. They produced the Israel-PLO Declaration of Principles, which was signed in 1993.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">1. Evaluate Israel's response to the 1st Intifada. How could it have been handled differently? **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">2. Evaluate the US role in the peace attempts in the region. What were the causes of successes and failures? **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">3. Assess the role of Israel and the PLO in attempts at peace. **

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Yom Kippur Reading: **
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|DJ Yom Kippur]

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Arab-Israeli War: **
[|cartoon]

**<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Final Assignment: **
<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">[|Essay]