PalestinianIsraeli Conflict

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Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

• General Background

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Geography of Conflict
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These maps prepared by pro-Israeli sources show
the size of Israel-Palestine relative to other
parts of the world.
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3 points to note

• Root of Conflict control over land
• Power imbalance
• Role of foreign actors

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A little history

• Both Jews Palestinians have lived in the area
  for a long time
• 3000-1500 BC Canaanites
• 1200-1100 BC Philistines (Pals) Jews invade
  settle the area
• Distant history of Jewish statehood in the region
• 1000 BC Jews unite, defeat other groups, found
  Kingdom of Israel. Lasts in unified form for
  about 70 years
• 722 BC-600s AD various Jewish states rise fall
  but area mostly under control of empires
  (Babylonian, Roman, etc.)

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• Recent history of Palestinian Ottoman control
  of the region, 640s-1918
• Rise of Islamic empires, 7th c.
• Ottoman rule, 14-20th c.
• Indirect Empire Palestinian notables.
• Jews a mostly tolerated minority (sometimes
  persecuted, although status largely better than
  for Jews in Europe)
• Jerusalem a religious center for Judaism,
  Christianity, Islam

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Early demographics of Palestine

• 1914 560,000 Arabs 80,000 Jews.
• Arab pop 84 Muslim (mostly Sunni), 16
  Christian
• Jewish pop about 70 longtime inhabitants, about
  30 Zionists
• 1933 about 950,000 Arabs 280,000 Jews
• 1946 1.26 million Arabs 608,000 Jews

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Enter the British

• The British Mandate, 1918-1948
• Conflicting promises Three documents
• Husayn-McMahon Correspondence (1915-16)
• Sykes-Picot Agreement (1916)
• Balfour Declaration (1917)
• Zionist migration
• Civil strife, 1920s-1940s

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WWII Jewish immigration

• Holocaust prompts renewed Jewish emigration to
  Palestine
• Jewish perspective Jewish state needed for their
  protection (war largely dissolved former Jewish
  resistance to Zionism)
• Palestinian perspective Arabs shouldnt have to
  pay for Europes injustice towards Jews
• New U.S. support for Zionism
• UN Partition Plans (see following slide) propose
  2-state solution

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