1. May 4, 2017
Global II Agenda:
DO NOW: Multiple Choice Review
NOTES #48: How has the Arab-Israeli conflict developed over time?

2. How has the Arab-Israeli conflict developed over time? Notes #48

3. The major source of conflict between the Israelis and the Palestinian Arabs is that each side has historic ties to the same land (Palestine).
Israel
(State of) Palestine

4. Since its creation, Israel’s foreign policy has been focused on maintaining territorial security.

5. Meanwhile, the establishment of a homeland for Palestinian Arabs has been the primary goal of the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
Former PLO Chairman
Yasser Arafat

6. Munich Summer Olympics
The Palestinian Arab effort to establish a homeland has contributed to terrorist activities in the Middle East.
PLO terrorists at the 1972
Munich Summer Olympics
Hamas terrorists

7. former President of Iran
Some Arab nations in the Middle East have been bonded by their hostility toward Israel.
Bashar al-Assad;
President of Syria
Mahmoud Ahmadinejad;
former President of Iran

8. In 1979, the first Arab nation to reach a peace agreement with Israel was Egypt under the Camp David Accords.
Egypt’s Prime Minister Anwar El Sadat shakes hands
with Israel’s Prime Minister Menachem Begin

9. In 1993, a major peace agreement was reached between the Israelis and the Palestinian Arabs under the Oslo Accords.
Israel’s Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shakes hands
with PLO Chairman Yasset Arafat at the Oslo Accords

10. However, this peace agreement was stalled after Israel’s prime minister was assassinated in 1995.
Yitzhak Rabin

11. Checkpoints for Palestinian Arabs
Today, a major stumbling block to a settlement of the Arab-Israeli conflict is the question of land and civil rights for Palestinian Arabs.
Checkpoints for Palestinian Arabs