1. Introduction to History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict IAFS/JWST 3650

2. Outline Categories Nations and nationalism Renan: memory and forgetting Case study

3. Categories What groups are involved in the Arab-Israeli conflict? How are they related?

4. Categories Arabs Muslims Christians Jews Not to scale

5. Categories Israelis ZionistsJews Not to scale

6. Categories Israelis ArabsJews Not to scale

7. Categories Arabs Muslims Christians Jews Zionists Israelis Not to scale Complicated!

8. Ernest Renan, “What is a Nation?” (1882) Possible factors: – history – race – language

9. Ernest Renan, “What is a Nation?” (1882) Possible factors: – religion – mutual interests – geography

10. Ernest Renan, “What is a Nation?” (1882) “Forgetting, I would even go so far as to say historical error, is a crucial factor in the creation of a nation.”

11. Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (1983) Nation is an “imagined political community that is imagined as both inherently limited and sovereign” Role of “print capitalism” http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/ world/war/images/kurdistan1.gif Kurdistan

12. What is Nationalism? Collective state of mind Loyalty to nation But... is it based on commonalities or differences?

13. What is Nationalism? Nation-state: the nationalist goal – E.g. everyone living in France is French – But some French residents identify—or are identified—as Algerian or Moroccan

14. How is Nationalism Defined? Territory? Common values—or opposition to other values? Common history? Allegiance to one institution or group?

15. http://boston.redsox.mlb.com;http://gonewengland.about.com; http://a.espncdn.com/photo/2011/1014/mlb_1975worldseries_576.jpg; http://www.bostonherald.com/blogs/news/city_desk_wired/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/sock1.jpg http://cache.deadspin.com/assets/resources/2008/02/clemensbigbig.jpg

16. http://boston.redsox.mlb.com;http://gonewengland.about.com; http://eastcoastwestcoast.typepad.com/eastcoastwestcoast/images/red_sox_win_globe.jpg; http://bleacherreport.com/articles/704410-the-25-biggest-blunders-in-mlb-history/page/24

18. Conclusions Temptation to forget Historians’ obligation to remember Need to think critically