1. Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

2. Palestinian and Israeli propaganda maps
Israeli map lumping together Arab states;
depicting tiny defenseless Israel
Palestinian Map
without Israel

3. Palestinians Israel Zionism: Arab (ethnic) territoriality
(in West Bank and Gaza Strip)
Arab (ethnic) territoriality
Palestinians are multireligious
Muslims and Christians
Ethnic nationalist movement,
but some newer Muslim groups
Israel
Zionism:
Jewish (religious) territoriality
Israelis are multiethnic
European, Middle Eastern,
Newer Russian, Ethiopian immigrants
Arab Israeli minority

4. Zionism - Theodore Herzl, 1896 British Palestine 1917- 48
Arab ethnic initial majority (90%)
1917, Balfour Declaration supports Zionism; immigration begins
The “Great Uprising” - first Arab protests as Jews increasingly
Jewish religious
minority grew rapidly in s, especially during rise of Anti-semitism.
British did not allow European Jewish immigration during WWII.

5. UN Partition Plan, 1948 Jewish State (Israel) - never implemented
Arab State (Palestine)
International Zone
(Jerusalem)
- never implemented
The day after the state of Israel was declared in 1848 five Arab armies from Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon, Syria and Iraq invaded but were repulsed and Israel took all of the U.N. designated lands plus much of Palestinian territory (see next slide).
Jewish militia massacred scores of Palestinians. Moreover hundreds of thousands were displaced and have been refugees ever since.

7. Jerusalem
West (Israeli);
East (Arab)
with Israeli settlements

8. Jerusalem: Holy City to Jews, Muslims, and Christians

9. Israeli Settlements and Palestinian towns in the West Bank, 2000
Israeli settlers see as
historic Jewish homeland
Palestinians compare
illegal settlements to
Apartheid

10. Palestinian Autonomy, 2000 Gradual turnover of Israeli-
Occupied areas to Palestinians
for “Two-State Solution”
Plan collapsing as
killings increase
Second Intifada since Sept. 2000
Israeli Defense Force reoccupies West Bank and Gaza

11. The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)
1970s Unable to win support in U.N.; Palestinians turned to terrrorism.
1972 Munich Olympics, 11 Israeli athletes killed by PLO operatives
1974 Yasser Arafat speaks to U.N.
"Today I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter's gun. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand."
Financial support for many years came from surrounding Arab nations and the U.S.S.R.
1992 PLO (Arafat) and Israel (Yitzhak Rabin) formally acknowledge one another as part of the Oslo Accord talks with Clinton.
Splinter Groups: Hamas, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Hezbollah
2005 Arafat dies.
2006 Hamas wins substantial portion of Palestinian vote.

12. Key Israeli Figures David Ben Gurion - Zionist founder/victor in 1948
Yitzhak Rabin (74-77; 92-95) - recognized PLO; killed by Israeli radical after making peace overtures.
Menachem Begin (78-83) - Camp David Accord; peace with Egypt. Sadat killed by extremists in 1981.
Ehud Barak - aggressive Labor party peacemaker; lost power to right wing Sharon during violence of Second Intifada
Ariel Sharon - current prime minister; Likud Party right winger considered war criminal by many for his role is slaughter in Lebannon; in coma after stroke of early (Ehud Olmert takes over role.)

13. Main Issues Palestinian Israeli Land Land Right of Return Security
End to Settlements
Water Rights
Economics
Self-determination
End of Occupation
Access to Jerusalem
Israeli
Land
Security
Access to Jerusalem
Right to exist

14. Demographic Data Palestinian Israeli Pop: 3,500,000 Pop: 6,000,000
Migration: 2.1/1000
Infant mortality: 26/1000
Fertility rate: 6.55
Life expectancy: 70.8
GDP per capita: $625
GDP growth rate: - 35%
Religions: Muslim (predominantly Sunni) 98.7%, Christian 0.7%, Jewish 0.6%
Israeli
Pop: 6,000,000
Migration: 1/1000
Infant Mortality: 6.55/1000
Fertility rate: 2.54
Life Expectancy: 78.8
GDP per capita: $19,000
GDP growth rate: -1%
Religions: Jewish 80.1%, Muslim 14.6% (mostly Sunni Muslim), Christian 2.1%, other 3.2% (1996 est.)