1. Dr. Todd Bradley Williamson College
Understanding the Middle East Crisis The Background, the Crisis, and the Church
Dr. Todd Bradley
Williamson College

2. The Arab-Israeli Conflict
But first, a story…

3. The Arab-Israeli Conflict
This is a complicated subject
Too much to cover in a few hours
There are two sides to this story
The common evangelical position
How does God see it?
Israelis but also Arabs
Issues but also people
To inform, not to argue
Goal: informed understanding

4. How Did It All Come to… THIS?!

5. OVERVIEW

12. Theodore Herzl,
Father of Zionism
ZIONISM AND THEODORE HERZL

13. THE ZIONIST MOVEMENT The Court-Martial of Capt Alfred Dreyfus
Theodore Herzl and The Jewish State
The First Zionist Congress, Basel SZ
Political efforts to gain support, funds
WWI and the Ottoman Empire
The Balfour Declaration, 1917
Jewish immigration to Palestine

14. The Balfour Declaration
His Majesty's government view with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.

15. Palestine Under British Mandate -Note Palestine included
both sides of the Jordan
River
-Transjordan was created
from the east bank of the
Jordan in 1921 by the UK
-Transjordan gained its
independence in 1928

18. United Nations Partition Plan For Palestine 1947 -Orange is Arab Land
-Blue is Jewish Land
-Greater Jerusalem would be internationally governed

19. Palestine After 1948 War Territories controlled by: -Israel (blue)
-Jordan (orange)
-Egypt (red)
-Jerusalem divided
between Jordan & Israel

21. Israel and Territories After 1967 War
-Israel before the war (light blue)
-Israel after the war
(blue)

22. Israel Today 1967 War (light blue) -Territories acquired
-Israeli land prior to
1967 War (light blue)
-Territories acquired
after 1967 War
*Gaza Strip
*West Bank
*Golan Heights
*Sinai returned to
Egyptian control
after Camp David

24. QUESTIONS?