1. Israel Palestine Conflict
Sai Kumar Swamy,
PGPM, IIMB

2. The Arab Story

3. The Arab Empire – AD

4. The Ottoman Empire –

5. Arab States

6. Events of 1915-1918 World War I Ottoman empire
McMahon-Hussein Correspondence
McMahon - Arab revolt against Ottoman empire
Hussein - Creation of Arab state
Balfour Declaration – 2nd Nov 1917
"His Majesty's Government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object”
Sykes-Picot Agreement
Zionism - ZO

7. What this led to Palestinian Riots Hebron Massacre
1920
1921
Hebron Massacre
23rd August, 1929
67 Jews killed
Rumors of Jewish occupation of Holy Lands
Similar attacks everywhere
Arab Revolt
White paper of 1939
Renounced Britain’s intent of creating a Jewish home in Palestine
Confiscated all weapons from Arab population

8. The story of the Jews

9. The story of the Jews Displaced people History of Attacks
1648 Ukraine
1821 Ukraine - The first riot actually called a ‘pogrom’
Russia
Few deaths, but much fear and property destruction
Zionist Movement
Russia
Many deaths
Much Jewish emigration to Europe and the USA
1918 Poland Argentina Romania
1933 Germany
The Holocaust
1945 Arab states such as Libya

10. Holocaust The Germans did not succeed in eliminating the Jews
Nazi Germany and Hitler
Perpetrated the worst ‘Pogrom’ in living memory
Systematic elimination of Jews
Factory-like process
Concentration Camps
Jews - identified, labelled, herded, moved, stored, abused and finally killed
Result
Over 6 million Jews died
Exodus to safe countries
USA preferred destination
The Germans did not succeed in eliminating the Jews
RESULT :: Need for a SAFE homeland - Emigration

11. UN Action - Inaction

12. UN Action 2 State theory Rejected by Palestinian Arabs
Palestine & Israel
Israel – 55%
Palestine – 45%
Rejected by Palestinian Arabs
Jewish settlers welcomed it – Ben Gurion
May 15, 1948 – End of British Rule
May 14, 1948
Palestinians move in
Jews retaliate
Israel declares independence
Arab League declares war
Egypt, Iraq, Syria, Jordan and Lebanon plan invasions
IDF defeats the Arab forces

13. Result of the War Arab exodus into neighboring countries
Gains
Jordan
East Jerusalem
West Bank
Egypt
Gaza strip – Coastal Strip
Elsewhere the Arabic forces were all pushed back
1949 the United Nations declared a cease-fire
Israel signed armistice agreements with all the Arab states
Israel had expanded by another 25%!
Arab exodus into neighboring countries
Jewish refugees flood Israel, USA
Ben Gurion – national hero

14. 1948-1973 Suez Crisis - 1956 6 day war – 1967 Yom Kippur War – 1973
Israel draws water from River Jordan
Restoration of national pride – Egypt (Gamel Abdel Naseer)
Israel recaptures
East Jerusalem
West Bank
Gaza Strip
Captures new territory
Sinai
Yom Kippur War – 1973

15. PLO & Intifada PLO Intifada : Arabic word Formed – 1964
Aim : Palestine, with its original Mandate borders, is the indivisible homeland of the Arab Palestinian people
Yasser Arafat
Guerilla Tactics
Fatah Movement
Intifada : Arabic word
Stands for shaking off or shivering because of fear or illness
It also means abrupt and sudden waking up from sleep or unconcerned status.
Politically the word came to symbolize the Palestinian uprising against the Israeli occupation
Civil Disobedience
1st – 1987
2nd – 2000

16. Hamas
Formed in 1987
1st Intifada
Destroy Israel – Establish Palestinian state
Denies Holocaust occurred
Sheikh Ahmad Yassin, Abdel Aziz Rantissi and Mohd. Taha
Activities
Suicide bombings
Rocket attacks (Qassam)
Schools, hospitals, libraries and Social activities
Wins parliamentary elections – 2006
Hamas -76 seats; Fatah- 43 seats
Conflict between Hamas and Fatah
Hamas defeats Fatah

17. Hamas – Contd. Hamas offers 10 year truce
Withdraw from West Bank & East Jerusalem
Right to return for Palestinians
Israel doesn’t respond
17th June 2008 – Informal truce between Hamas & Israel
Nov 4th – 6 Hamas gunmen killed by Israeli forces
Hamas responds with rocket attacks on Israeli border towns
Israel launches operation ‘Cast Lead’
Weed out Hamas militants and smash arms hideouts and safe houses
1000+ civilians dead
Limited Hamas casualties
Human shields and blending into population during conflict

18. Peace Process Oslo Accord – 1993 Camp David – 2000
Key Features
Ariel Sharon
Mohd Al Durrah Incident
Mitchell report – Basis of the Road Map for peace
Sharm El-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee Report
an immediate cessation of all violence
rebuilding confidence by a full-scale effort by the Palestinian Authority to prevent Terrorism, the freezing of Israeli settlement activity, ... and other confidence-building measures
resumption of negotiations

19. Today Possible Solutions
There is still much dispute and fighting over land and borders
Hamas and the PLO are still in conflict with Israel
Israel has control over 78% of the former Palestine, rather than the 55% allocated under the UN partition plan
Possible Solutions
Many moderate Arabs want Israeli withdrawal to pre borders
Hamas (who is in power currently) does not want a peace agreement, rather desires a single Palestinian state
2 state-solution
1 state solution
Israel’s “land for peace” deals

20. Annexure

21. Balfour Declaration

22. Zionist Movement Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chaim Weizmann
‘the struggle to put an end to the Wandering Jew, could not have as its result, the creation of the Wandering Arab’
Theodore Herzl
Der Judenstaat – The Jewish State – 1896
the only solution to the "Jewish Question" in Europe, including growing antisemitism, was through the establishment of a Jewish State
Zionist Congress
"If I were to sum up the Congress in a word – which I shall take care not to publish – it would be this: At Basle I founded the Jewish State. If I said this out loud today I would be greeted by universal laughter. In five years perhaps, and certainly in fifty years, everyone will perceive it."
Chaim Weizmann
Rosh Pinna – First Settlement
The Wiki entry for Wandering Jew says that - The Wandering Jew is a figure from medieval Christian folklore whose legend began to spread in Europe in the 13th century. The original legend concerns a Jew who taunted Jesus on the way to the Crucifixion and was then cursed to walk the earth until the Second Coming. The exact nature of the wanderer's indiscretion varies in different versions of the tale, as do aspects of his character; sometimes he is said to be a shoemaker or other tradesman, while sometimes he is the doorman at Pontius Pilate's estate.

23. Zionist Conference – Basel (1897)

24. Weizmann
Chaim Azriel Weizmann, 27 November 1874 – 9 November 1952) was a Zionist leader, President of the Zionist Organization, and the first President of the State of Israel. He was elected on 1 February 1949, and served until his death in The first picture shows Weizmann with Einstein and the second one shows Weizmann with Prince Faisal.

25. Rosh Pinna

26. Cave of the Patriarchs

27. Western Wall

28. Al-Aqsa

29. Western Wall – Al Aqsa

30. Foundation Stone

31. Arab forces

32. Haganah – Jewish Self Defense Group

33. Palestine in 1947
Jewish Settlements in orange
Palestinian-Arab settlements in Yellow

34. Holocaust-1

35. Herding of Jews

36. Concentration Camps-1

37. Concentration Camps-2

38. Jewish Immigrants - Palestine

39. Partition Plan - Map Pink – Palestine Orange – Israel
Blue – International Zone

40. Palestine in 1947
Jewish Settlements in orange
Palestinian-Arab settlements in Yellow

41. Invasion Plan

42. Map – After the 1948 War

43. Israel before and after the six-day war 1967

44. The End of the Yom Kippur War -Green marks Israeli gains
Lebanon
Golan Heights
Syria
Israel
Jordan
Suez Canal
Egypt
The End of the Yom Kippur War -Green marks Israeli gains

45. Railroad Cars

46. Bus - Jewish

47. Sykes-Picot Agreement

48. Oslo Accord

49. Current Settlements

50. Durrah Incident

51. Story in Pictures

52. Tel Aviv

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54. Israel- The people
Because of its location, and long history, Israel has a large mixture of peoples. They are different faiths, appearance, skin colour etc etc.

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67. Suicide Bombing

68. Is this the END?