Israel and the Arab/Palestinian-Israeli Conflict,

1880-1979

UN Partition Plan, 1947	Israel, 1948-1967	Israel after 1967

1) How did the Israeli state come into existence between 1880 and 1948?

2) What was the reaction of the Arab states and specifically the Palestinians?

3) What is the significance of the Six Day War of 1967?

4) How did the Arab/Palestinian-Israeli conflict evolve from 1967 to 1982?

Key Terms

1) Jewish Diaspora

2) Zionism

3) Balfour Declaration

4) British Mandate

5) UN Partition Plan (1947)

5) The War of 1948

6) The Nakba

7) Six Day War (1967 War)

8) West Bank and Gaza

9) Palestine Liberation Organization

10) Yassir Arafat

I. The Origins of the Israeli State, c.1880-1948

• The Jewish Presence in Canan/Judea, 1200/1050-920 BCE – c.150 CE

• The Jewish Diaspora, 150 CE - 1800

• The Origins and Growth of the Zionist Movement in Europe

o Political and Racial Anti-Semitism

o Jewish Nationalism

• British Colonialism, 1916-1947

o Sykes-Picot Agreement of 1916

o Balfour Declaration, 1917

• British Mandate 1922-47

• Nazi Persecution, Jewish Emigration, Palestinian Resistance, and British Exasperation, 1936-1945

Population of Palestine, 1800-1948

Jews Arabs

1800: 5000 300,000

1870: 7000 360,000

1893: 25,000 550,000

1920: 83,000 650,000

1930: 164,000 820,000

1945: 600,000 1,000,000

1948: 750,000 1,200,000

• The Zionist struggle for Statehood

• UN Partition Plan 1947

• The Establishment and Recognition of Israel

• The War of 1948 and its Consequences: The New Map of Israel
  
  

II.  Israel and the Arab World, 1948-1979

• Parliamentary Democracy (The Knesset) and The Labor Party

• Labor and the Social Market Economy

o Israeli per Capita

o Palestinian per Capita

• Suez War of 1956

• The Six Day War (1967) and its Consequences

o The West Bank, Gaza, and Golan Heights

o The United States: Israel's Indispensable Ally

o The Israeli Occupation/Colonization of Gaza, West Bank, and Golan Height

Helen Thomas asks President Obama about Nuclear Weapons in Middle East

• The Yom Kippur War of 1973
  
  
• Camp David Accords and Egyptian-Israeli Peace

• The Rise of Palestinian Nationalism and Organized Resistance

o The “Nakba”

o A People without a State

o Refugee Crisis and “Right of Return”

o Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) – 1964

o Yassir Arafat (1929-2004) and the Fatah Faction

o Terrorism and the Munich Olympics, 1972

• Israel’s Invasion of Lebanon (1978-1982/2000) and the Origins of Hezbollah