Israel+Palestine+Question




 * Essential Questions**:


 * ** Can people live in peace together when deeply held beliefs and views are in conflict? **
 * ** Should the international community play a role in helping countries establish self-determination? **
 * ** Is it ever OK for victims to become the persecutors? **
 * ** Is violence justified when access to resources is cut off? **
 * ** Does the Holocaust excuse Israel from overreaching partition boundaries with Palestine? **


 * [|Dj on "A Short Introduction"] **

Biased of //A Short Introduction:// As the viewer proceeds through the video clear points of a biased point of view is seen. The narrator points out the special privileges given to Jews that are not given to Palestinians such as rights to land and housing, as well as other special treatment given to Jews. The narrator accuses Israel of promoting institutional discrimination against non Jews instead of equality. Also the narrator continues to point out a host of horrible actions committed by Israel like bombing civilians of Gaza, and punishing resistance with raids, assassinations, and arrests, with the soul purpose to gain maximum land, as well as to make life harder for the Palestinians.



After watching the video it is clear that the "big bully" was portraying Israel and the "small victim" that was inciting the big bully was portraying Palestine, the message is that Palestine was inciting Israel while Israel continued to take it, as it went on Israel stood up for itself and Palestine responds back with a victim routine. The bias of the video is that it is clearly a pro Israel, showing that the world doesn't see Israel's perspective.
 * Opener 04/11/14 Elementary School Video:**

I n the late 1880's 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" **
 * What was meant by this quote:
 * What is meant in this quote is that "the bride" being spoke of is Palestine and the "man" it is already married to is the Palestinians (Arab population), in that the land was beautiful in the eyes of Israel but it would not be easy to obtain due to it being made up non Jews.

[|Guided questions]


 * Reflection: Part 1 Guide questions: **


 * 1. What information did you find most interesting about the conflict from this portion of the reader? **


 * 2. Explain and give examples of how other nations and international organizations impacted the conflict. **

**Reflection on Guide questions 2**: (copy and paste and answer directly in your wiki)
- The result from the war was the signing of armistice agreements, as well as Palestine being broken up into three sections each under a different political regime, and Israel received 77 percent of the territory.
 * ** How did the UN try to keep peace in the region? **
 * - T **hey decided to divide Palestine into two states, one Arab and the other Jewish. In doing so they tried to make sure that each country had a majority of its own population.
 * ** How did war impact the region? **
 * ** Reflect on the treatment of Palestinian refugees **
 * - **They are not treated well, it seems to me when a minority enters one state or city they use them as a scapegoat to blame their problems on, in Lebanon they are accused for the civil war that damaged that country from 1975-91, and are demanded to live elsewhere, In Syria they have been mixed up in violence since the revolt against the regime that started in 2011. It is quite shameful that refugees trying to establish a home for themselves must be falsely accused due to them not originating their.


 * Visual Time line of Israeli- Palestine Conflict[[image:mastromaurowh/Timeline of Israel Palestine.PNG caption="Timeline of Israel Palestine.PNG"]] **


 * In 1946 the state of Palestine went from being 100% Palestinian to, 10% Jewish and 90% Palestinian
 * In a matter of a year the Jewish population increased substantially forcing Western Palestine to be divided
 * The result of the war left Palestine divided into three sections, with Israel owning 77%
 * Israel kept the 77% from 1948 to present day slowly gaining more
 * It took about thirty years since the Jews entered Palestine to establish their state of Israel
 * Through the UN and war Israel went from being an idea to the replacement of Palestine


 * 1. What role did the international community play in the 1967 War? **
 * The role the international community played in the 1967 war was one of a war starter, the middle east became a hot spot of another cold war rivalry, and by the Soviet Union misinforming the Syrian government they established tension between states and ignited a war.
 * 2. How can "language be used to one's advantage? (UN resolution 242) **
 * It seems that language can be used to one's advantage by the way it can be translated in political documents through other languages, in the UN resolution 242 the french and English had two conflicting translations, each translated in the way they want.
 * 3. Evaluate the treatment of Palestinian refugees by Israelis after the war? what are some possible reasons for this treatment? **


 * Additional Information from Six Day War video: **
 * Soviet Union breaks sanctions with Israel
 * Israel was charged by Syria on breaking cease fires
 * Israel states that their victory breaks previous armistices
 * The cities of Jerusalem and Bethlehem were captured
 * Battle of Bethlehem is brief, and bloody
 * Israel was not giving up Jerusalem again

=Yom Kippur War Political Cartoon:=

Israel V.S Egypt and Syria


My summary gives a basic summary of what took place in the Yom Kippur War. On October 6, 1973, hoping to regain territory lost to Israel during the third Arab-Israeli war, in 1967, Egyptian and Syrian forces launched a coordinated attack against Israel on Yom Kippur, the holiest day in the Jewish calendar. Egypt and Syria made some gains but were soon over powered by the Israelite s, and lost the war. Resulting in a peace treaty made between Egypt and Israel regarding the return of the Sinai Peninsula, an even more loss of land for Syria.The meaning of my cartoon is that instead of expecting the unexpected, Israel conducted Yom Kippur assuming that enemy states would care about its worth to their people and as expected they didn't and conducted an attack on the Jews holiest day.

__**Reflection**__ **__questions on Guide Questions 5:__**

**1. Discuss the viewpoint of the Israelis and the Palestinians on the barrier between Israel and the West Bank.** Israel believed to save lives the wall must stay up, due to their fear of terrorist activity. For the Palestinians its another restriction on their rights, it separates communities as well as families. **2. What do you see as the major stumbling blocks in the attempted peace talks discussed in this section?** What I see as the major stumbling blocks in attempted peace talks is that nobody tries to understand each other, Israel still has not viewed Palestine as their own individual state.daily frustrations and humiliations inflicted upon Palestinians in the Occupied Territories causes them to not want to corporate as well as the corruption in Palestinian Authority **__Reflection Questions on Guide Questions 6:__ (Copy and paste into your wiki)**

**1. Do you think Palestine should be a full member of the UN? Why or why not?** **2. Evaluate how a lasting peace could be achieved in this conflict. Give specific evidence from your work** A lasting piece could be achieved in this conflict by viewing one another as human beings, before designated backgrounds and races