1. Israeli/Arab Conflict
Can We Blame it on the Brits?
(For a change)

2. Current Situation West Bank Gaza Strip Golan Heights Hamas Fatah
Ben Gurion Quote

3. The Israeli-Palestinian Dispute
The Ottoman Empire, The “Sick Man of Europe”
Theodor Herzl and the Zionist Congress
Hussein-McMahon Correspondence
Sykes-Picot Agreement 1916
Lawrence of Arabia & The Arab Revolt
Balfour Declaration 1917
Churchill White Paper 1922
British Mandate
The Israeli War for Independence 1948
Implications for Today

4. Genesis 15: 18-21 The Lands of Israel promised to the descendants of Abraham

5. The Ottoman Empire

6. The “Sick Man of Europe”

7. Theodor Herzl & Zionism

8. The Zionist Movement
Theodor Binyamin Herzl, a journalist & Hungarian Jew who lived in Vienna, wrote a book called, Judenstadt, “The Jewish State”
Virulent anti-Semitism in Russia & France (Evidenced by Dreyfuss Affair)
1896, 1st World Zionist Congress.
British offer land in East Africa

9. Palestine in the 19th Century
There was no Palestinian nationalsim.
Region divided into Sanjaks
500k Arab Fellahin Tenant Farmers on land of absentee landlords
25K Sephardim, Jews of Spanish Descent

10. Hussein-McMahon Correspondence
exchange of letters between the Sharif of Mecca, Hussein bin Ali, and Sir Henry McMahon, British High Commissioner in Egypt, concerning the future political status of the Arab lands of the Middle East.
The United Kingdom was seeking to bring about an armed revolt against the Ottoman Empire, a German ally during WWI. The letters indicated independence for all Arab land south of the 37th parallel would be the reward for Arab assistance.

11. The Sykes-Picot Agreement
Secret understanding between the governments of Britain, Czarist Russia and France defining their respective spheres of post-WWI influence and control in the Middle East, after the expected downfall of the Ottoman Empire, The boundaries of this agreement still remain in much of the common border between Syria, Jordan and Iraq.

12. The Sykes-Picot Agreement

13. T.E. Lawrence – The Seven Pillars of Wisdom

14. British Victory in WWI General Allenby takes Jerusalem in 1918
The Arab armies under Lawrence & Prince Feisel take Damascus first
League of Nations give British Mandate in Palestine

15. The Balfour Declaration
Foreign Office
November 2nd, Dear Lord Rothschild, I have much pleasure in conveying to you, on behalf of His Majesty's Government, the following declaration of sympathy with Jewish Zionist aspirations which has been submitted to, and approved by, the Cabinet: "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, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country". I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation. Yours sincerely Arthur James Balfour

16. The Churchill White Paper
Winston Churchill, then colonial secretary, warned against establishing a Jewish State in 1922
The Balfour Declaration established a Jewish Homeland, not state
The Balfour Declaration stated not a homeland “OF” Palestine, but “IN” Palestine

17. The Churchill White Paper
stated that the Balfour Declaration could not be amended and that the Jews were in Palestine by right, but it partitioned the area of the Mandate by excluding the area east of the Jordan River from Jewish settlement. That land, 76% of the original Palestine Mandate by area but mostly very sparsely populated desert, was renamed TransJordan and was given to the Hashemite Emir Abdullah, son of King Hussein of Hejaz, a reward by the British for the Hashemite family's help in the fight against the Ottomans. Today it is the Kingdom of Jordan ruled by Abdullah's great-grandson, Abdullah II.

18. Sixty five years later, in 2002, British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw observed "A lot of the problems we are having to deal with now, I have to deal with now, are a consequence of our colonial past The Balfour Declaration and the contradictory assurances which were being given to Palestinians in private at the same time as they were being given to the Israelis - again, an interesting history for us but not an entirely honourable one."

19. The British Mandate
80K Jews in Palestine at the end of WWI (10% of population)
World Zionist org established Jewish Agency in Palestine, David Ben Gurion, 1st leader
British High Commissioner Sir Herbert Samuel, an English Jew

20. The British Mandate 1920-1932 100k Jewish immigrants
Histadrut, Jewish Labor Front, begins to buy land from Turkish, Armenian & Greek absentee landlords
Hitler elected in Germany 1933
over 145K Jewish immigrants
Arabs demand democracy

21. The Arab Insurgency 1929 Wailing Wall incidents
1936 Arab High Committee demands British stop immigration and land transfer, call for democracy
During the Arab Insurgency, 10% of adult male Arab population either killed, wounded or imprisoned
Wingate “night squads” (including Moshe Dayan)
36-38 successful rural insurgency forces House of Commons to end Jewish immigration - Peel Report

22. The Jewish Insurgency
Jewish Defense Agency “Haganah” & splinter group “Irgun” (led by Menachim Begin)
WWII brought about tough urban insurgency & terrorist campaign against the British
Jewish agency secretly continues immigration
Nov 44, British High Commissioner in Egypt assassinated by Irgun
July 46, Begin bombs King David Hotel in Jerusalem, 90 Brits killed, half were Jews
British refer problem to UN and leave in May of 48

23. The Jewish Insurgency

24. UN Partition Plan for Palestine
UN General Assembly Res. 181, was to resolve the Arab-Israeli conflict in the British Mandate of Palestine. The plan would have partitioned Palestine into Jewish and Arab states, with the greater Jerusalem area, under international control.

25. The 1948 Israeli War for Independence
November 29th 1948, the day after the UN general Assembly passed Res. 181., Arabs riot throughout Palestine, 7 Jews are killed
Jews are now about 30% of all Palestine population (about 600K)
Newly established Arab league calls for military assistance for Palestinians

26. The 1948 Israeli War for Independence
The British Mandate ends on May 15th, David Ben-Gurion declares independence for Israel
The next day, the new Jewish state is attacked by the armies of Egypt, Transjordan, Syria, Lebanon, Yemen & Iraq with the help of Saudi Arabia
By summer of 1949, Israel has signed armistices with Egypt, Lebanon, Transjordan, & Syria.
In victory, Israel’s new borders comprise 78% of Mandatory Palestine, 50% more than the UN partition proposal allotted it.
The Gaza Strip and the West Bank were occupied by Egypt and Transjordan respectively.

27. The 1948 Israeli War for Independence
Israel lost about 1% of its population in the war: 6,373 of its people. About 4,000 were soldiers and the rest were civilians.
600k Jews vs. 40 million arabs

28. Palestinian Refugee Problem
The UN estimates 700,000 Palestinian refugees leave the expanded territory of the Israeli state
Where are they Now?

29. 56 Suez Crisis

30. The 6-Day War

31. Sinking of the USS Liberty 1967

32. The 6-Day & Yom Kippur Wars

33. The Lebanese Civil War The French Mandate The National Pact
Refugees from 48 and 67 Wars

34. The Lebanese Civil War Black September The Syrian Incursion
The Israeli Invasion

35. The 1983 Beirut Bombing
Did President Reagan understand the Lebanese Civil War?

36. Lebanon/Waltz with Bashir
The Sabra and Shatilla massacres

37. Yasser Arafat and the PLO
1982: Israel invades southern Lebanon
1987: The first Palestinian Intifada
1993 Oslo Accords

39. The Oslo Accords 93 1994 – Nobel Peace Prize
July 94 – Peace with King Hussein and Jordan
Feb 95 – Ibrahimi Mosque massacre
Summer 95 – Palestinian violence and West Bank demonstrations continue
Nov 95 – Oslo II or Taba Accords signed
Nov 95 Yitzak Rabin assassinated

40. Last Chance for Peace? Wye River Memorandum Ehud Barak
South Lebanon Army (SLA) and Israeli Withdrawal from Lebanon
Camp David II
Al Aqsa Intifada and Ariel Sharon

41. Temple Mount

42. Western Wall
Dome of the Rock
Al-Aqsa Mosque
Ariel Sharon’s Visit

43. Sharon and Gaza
2nd Intifada returns Israel to Likud control and war hero Ariel Sharon
Israel works to marginalize Arafat and kill Hamas leaders
Post 9/11 The Bush administration supports Likud policies against Hamas, but supports a Palestinian state.
Arafat’s mysterious death
Gaza Withdrawal
The Saudi Peace Plan
Sharon Suffers a stroke
Hamas election victory

44. The Saudi Peace Plan

46. Israeli Domestic Politics
“In Israel there are 3 million prime ministers” Golda Meir
Parliamentary system with a 2% cutoff was changed to 3.25% in 2014 (Upheld by the Supreme Court)
Currently 12 parties in the Knesset of the 19 that were on the 2013 Ballot
Currently Likud/Yisrael Beiteinu rule with only 31 seats in the 120-seat Knesset (Plus Yesh Atid in coalition)

47. 2013 Israeli Parliament Elections

48. Israeli Domestic Politics

49. Isreali Domestic Politics
Winning Party has 42 days to form a coalition from the 34 parties on the ballot

50. Israeli Domestic Politics
Political Parties (minus the three Arab Parties)

51. Polls for Mar 17th 2015 Election

52. Israeli Domestic Politics
Three Arab parties have joined together to avoid exclusion under the new electoral threshold. They have said that they will not join any coalition
Ayman Odeh, the leader of this “Joint List”, may be the power broker of the next coalition. Polls show the Arab block may come in with the 3rd most seats.

53. 2015 Election Results
Zionist Union: Labor (Isaac Herzog with Hatnuah (Tzipi Livni) OR
Likud: Benjamin Netanyahu – “I think that anyone who is going to establish a Palestinian state today and evacuate lands is giving attack grounds to radical Islam against the state of Israel.” March 15, 2015

54. Who is David and who is Goliath?

55. Obstacles to Peace Right of Return
Settlements in the West Bank & East Jerusalem
Jerusalem Capital
Jordon River Water
Hamas

56. How do Palestinians See it?

57. Wall of Apartheid