The Arab-Israeli Conflict (lecture notes)
The Arab-Israeli Conflict (lecture notes)
I. Groups within conflict:
1. Israel & _____________________
2. Israel & other surrounding _______________ nations
3. Muslims and ______________________ (modern Muslims and secular society vs. ___________________ Muslims)
II. Causes of Arab- Israelis conflict:
1. Land
- Israel and Arabs think they both should have _________ over Israeli land
- Israel feels it needs to use the _______________ to secure its land
- Arabs demand a __________________ of their lost, _________________ territories
- Israel fears giving back the land because the Arabs might _______________ further attacks against __________________
- Arabs believe that the ______________________ territories belong to them, not Israel, and that Israel shouldn’t even ____________
2. Religion
- most of area is _______, they do not want a __________ state in the M.E.
3. Conflict of cultures
- ________________ influences of Israel vs. traditional views (_________ of Muslims)
III. Israeli War for Independence:
1. May 14, 1948 _________ invaded ____________; Israel declared __________________
2. May _____ __________ armies invaded the new ________________ state
3. Fighting officially _____________ in January _______________
4. ______________ countries signed ______________ with _____________ in 1949
5. About ______________ Israelis were ______________ in the war.
IV. War for Suez canal (1956):
1. Egypt want to ______________________ the Suez Canal, thereby taking control from _________________________ and France
2. Great Britain and France __________________ Egypt
3. Israel joined the attack in order to _______________________ raids into Israel
4. The U.S. convinced Great Britain, France and Israel to ____________________ from Egypt
5. Egypt _________________ control of the Suez Canal
V. 6 Day War (1967):
1. Israel vs. Egypt, _______________, and Jordan
2. Israel _______ the war in ______ days
3. Long-term _____________________ of war:
V. 6 Day War (1967) (continued):
- Israeli forces now __________________ several territories (once occupied by its Arab neighbors).
- Israel now occupied _____________________ (Syrian territory), the Sinai Peninsula and the ____________________ (Egyptian territory), and the _________________ of the Jordan River, and East Jerusalem (Jordan territory)
- Israel now had control of all of Jerusalem
- Israel’s purpose in continuing to occupy these territories?: ________________ its borders
VI. Yom Kippur War (10/1973):
1. ________________ vs. Israeli’s (4th time fighting for control of land)
2. Arab nations invaded Israel, why? (wanted to _________________ lost territories from the Israelis)
3. Invasion was a ____________________, on the Jewish holiday, Yom Kippur
4. Israelis won in a successful __________________________ against the Arabs
5. ________ helped negotiate a ______________
VII. The Palestinian Issue:
1. Palestinians were forced to live in _______________ camps in Syria, Lebanon
and Jordan.
2. Due to poverty and increased ________________, the Palestinian
________________ Organization was formed (PLO)
- founder of the PLO = Yasir Arafat
3. Goal of the PLO: ______________ Israel as a nation and turn the land into
Palestinian _________________
4. PLO’s main weapons: _______________
- PLO agents haved killed Israeli _________________
5. Millions of Palestinians live in the Gaza Strip and the ________________
- Beginning in 1987, young Palestinians _________________ the
presence of Israeli troops by throwing ______________ at them
- Israeli troops sometimes responded with force, ________________
some Palestinians
- these events became known as the _______________
VIII. Peace Efforts:
1. 1978: US President Jimmy Carter brought the ________________ President and
the ______________ Prime Minister to Camp David in Maryland for peace talks
- talks were ______________
- Israel agreed to return the ___________ Peninsula to Egypt
- Egypt was the first Arab country to formally _________________ Israel
as an _____________ nation
- As a result; however, the Egyptian president was __________________
2. The U.S. views Israel as a great _________________
VIII. Peace Efforts (continued):
- peace talks between Israel and Palestine have taken place since the early _________
3. 1993: Israel agreed to talk ____________ to the PLO
- allow for limited __________________ for the Palestinians living in the
Gaza Strip and ________________
- PLO’s leader, Yasir Arafat agreed to recognize the right of Israel to ___________ as a nation
- document created was known as the _________________________
4. 1994: Israel and __________________ signed a peace treaty to end their history
of war
- two countries settled disputes over ____________ and __________
rights, established ____________________ relations, and agreed to
work together to improve their respective country’s economies
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