1. Conflicts in the Middle East

2. Objective:
Students will analyze and summarize the various conflicts between Palestine and Israel and be measured through their Cornell notes, mini quiz, and exit slip.

3. Setting the stage
19th and 20th century, Jews = growing presence in Palestine
Holocaust caused great sympathy for Jews
UN pushed for partition of Palestine

5. Formation of Israel May 14, 1948, creation of Israel announced
Next day, Israel gets attacked
Ended within months with Israel victorious

6. Justify Think Pair Share
Who was against the partition and why were they against it? Who attacked Israel and why were they not successful?
Read pg. 522 – “Israel Becomes a State” and “Israel and the Arab States in Conflict”

7. Six Day War 1967, Arab nations amass tanks and aircrafts
Israel leads a preemptive attack
Defeats the Arab states in six days
Israel gained control of the Golan Heights and the West Bank

8. Yom Kippur War
1973, joint Arab operation decides to attack Israel on “Yom Kippur”
Yom Kippur = holy Jewish holiday
Israel counterattacks
Ends with a truce

9. Camp David Accords (1979) Israel-Egypt peace treaty
First signed agreement between Israel and a Arab nation
Anwar Sadat assassinated (1981)

10. Israeli-Palestinian tensions
West Bank & Gaza Strip occupied by Israel
Large # of Palestinians in those lands
Israel began to bomb suspected rebel bases

11. Intifada Composed of Palestinians who disliked the Israeli
Uprising through campaigns of civil disobedience
Led boycotts and demonstrations on Israeli soldiers

12. Oslo Peace Accords (1993) Israel prime minister Yitzhak Rabin
Agreed to grant Palestinians self-rule in several places
Assassinated in 1995
Negotiations became difficult and slow

13. Justify Think Pair Share
What were some similarities between The Camp David Accords and Oslo Peace Accords.
Why did these assassinations occurred?

14. Quick-write
Explain the tension between the Israeli and Palestinians. Why do you think this tension still exist today? In your opinion, will this conflict ever end?

15. QW #37 - Mini Quiz: Conflicts during the Cold War

16. A partition involves
A. two countries becoming one country
B. a country dividing into two independent countries
C. a colony relying on it’s mother country

17. All were battles between the Israeli and Arabs except
A. Six-Day War
B. Yom Kippur War
C. Battle of Bangladish

18. The intifada’s main form of offense involved
A. random bombings
B. civil disobedience
C. terrorist attacks

19. A partition involves
A. two countries becoming one country
B. a country dividing into two independent countries
C. a colony relying on it’s mother country

20. B. a country dividing into two independent countries

21. All were battles between the Israeli and Arabs except
A. Six-Day War
B. Yom Kippur War
C. Battle of Bangladish

22. C. Battle of Bangladish

23. The intifada’s main form of offense involved
A. random bombings
B. civil disobedience
C. terrorist attacks

24. B. civil disobedience