1. Arab-Israeli Conflict Background
Arab-Israeli Conflict Background

2. 1800 to 1500 BCE Semitic people known as the Hebrews settle area known today as Israel

3. 1000 BCE King David unites 12 tribes, creates Kingdom of Israel
Son Solomon builds 1st Temple

4. 720 BCE Start of 2,500 yr period of area conquered by other empires – Jewish Diaspora
(scattering of a
homogenous
people)

5. Palestine – name given to the area along the Mediterranean Sea by the Romans 135 CE
(Presently known as Israel & Jordan)

6. 300 CE Christianity becomes dominant religion of area

7. 650 CE Islam becomes dominant religion of region

8. 1500s Area conquered by Ottoman Empire & Palestine is no longer official name

9. Anti-Semitism increases in Europe…
An American Tail

10. …resulting in the start of Zionism (movement to create a Jewish homeland) in the 1880s
Theodore Hertzl 

11. 1920s British gain control of Palestine as a result of WWI & restore Palestine as name

12. Why does this action cause anger amongst the Arab people?
Britain & France broke their promise to Arabs if Arabs helped fight against the Ottomans, then Arabs get land

13. Read passage on the following slide and explain what it is saying in your own words:

14. Balfour Declaration “His Majesty’s government views with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people… it being clearly
understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine.”

15. WWII; 6 million European Jews killed during the Holocaust

16. 1945-1947 Huge migration of Jews into Palestine

17. 1947 – 1948 UN Partition Plan: proposed Arab Palestine & Jewish Israel w/ Jerusalem under international control;
Partition – divide into parts

18. International Zone (Jerusalem) Jewish state
Arab state
International Zone (Jerusalem) Jewish state

19. The Jewish people accepted the proposal, but the Arabs did not
Why do you think the Jewish people accepted the partition, but the Arabs did not? Jewish accept U.N. partition because… Arabs do not accept the UN partition because…