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Israeli-Palestinian Conflict WEBQUEST

After reading pages 492-493 aloud in class, fill in the following chart (you can also use your notes from 462-465):

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Web Quest: Follow the directions below VERY CAREFULLY in order to answer the various questions. Be thorough in your answers-use complete sentences and explain your ideas! Read carefully-these sites can sometimes be harder to understand! Ask for help, use a dictionary and use your text to help you!

Go to: conflictwebquest

1. Use the PBS Glossary to define (in your own words):

Palestine: __________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________

____________________________________________________________

Zionism: __________________________________________________________

2. Use the BBC Timeline to fill in the blanks:

3. Use the “Nutshell” site to answer these questions.

Divisive History: What happened when the Arabs refused to recognize the UN partition?

Palestinian State:

What is the P.L.O.? ______________________________________________

The “Road Map Peace Plan” is intended to do what?

Why do you think these groups oppose the “Road Map?”

Zionist extremists:

Palestinian extremists:

Jerusalem:

Why do the Jewish people claim Jerusalem?

Why do the Muslim people claim Jerusalem?

4. Continue to use the “Nutshell” site to answer these questions.

Palestinian Terror:

How have the Palestinians used harmful tactics to push for their cause?

Israeli Repression:

How have Israelis used harmful tactics to push for their cause?

5. Use the PBS website from New Hour Extra.

According to the article, how is the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians affecting other parts of the world?

6. Look at the maps on the BBC website to answer these questions.

What problems do you think Israelis living in the West Bank (or Gaza Strip) face?

What problems do you think Palestinians living outside of the West Bank or Gaza Strip face?

Locations of Palestinians in Israel are not shown on the maps, but many Palestinians do

live or work outside the Palestinian borders around the West Bank and Gaza Strip.

7. Use the ’s “Peace Plan” site to answer these questions.

What four items must be addressed in any peace plan for the region?

Scroll down the page-each of the bold words is another proposal that was made for how to

resolve the conflict. Why do you think, with all of these ideas, there still hasn’t been a

resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict?

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Your name: _______________________________________ Partner’s name: _______________________

1897-First Zionist Congress meets and decides to work for a: “’home for the Jewish people in Palestine secured by public law’ and set up the World Zionist Organization to work toward that goal.”

Ancient Times-

1250 BC-Israelites begin to settle along eastern Mediterranean coast.

63 BC-The Jewish state of Judea was made a part of Roman Palestine

638 AD-Arab Muslims control the region; remains in control until late 20th century

1917-At the end of WWI, Britain occupied the region.

3 pledges were made at this time:

1. Britain promised _____________

leadership in reorganizing the former Ottoman regions after the war.

2. Britain and _________________

agreed to joint control of the region.

3. In 1917, Britain also said it would work towards a national

home for ____________________

people in Palestine.

1929-1936-

1. From 1920-1930, thousands

of _________________ people immigrated to British-controlled Palestine.

2. _______________________ and Arab people in Palestine did not get along resulting in violent clashes.

3. _______________________

was a militant Zionist organization using violence to try and create an independent Jewish state.

4. True or False

A 1937 British proposal to divide Palestine into an Arab and Jewish state was accepted by Arab and Palestinian representatives.

1947-The UN Partition plan gives…

________ % of the Palestinian land to a Jewish State

________% of the Palestinian land to an Arab state

…with an

____________________

____________________

around Jerusalem.

WWII and the Holocaust

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