Palestine and Israel Jews have a history in IsraelPalestine going back 3000 years Jews began immigrating to Israel as a result of the Russian Pogroms AntiSemitic riots In 1896 Theodor Herzl ID: 446639
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Arab-Israeli Conflict
Palestine and IsraelSlide2
Jews have a history in Israel/Palestine going back
3000 years.Slide3Slide4
Jews began immigrating to Israel as a result of the Russian Pogroms (Anti-Semitic
) riots.Slide5
In 1896 Theodor Herzl
published Der
Judenstaat (The Jewish State), in which he asserted that the solution to growing antisemitism
in Europe (the so-called "Jewish Question") was to establish a Jewish state. In 1897, the
Zionist Organisation was founded and the First Zionist Congress proclaimed its aim "to establish a home for the Jewish people in Palestine secured under public law."
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However, Zionism was regarded with suspicion by the Ottoman rulers and was unable to make major progress.Slide6Slide7
Jewish/Arab Population of Israel over time.Slide8
Lebanon
Syria
JordanEgyptIsraelGaza
(Gaza Strip)West BankGolan Heights
JerusalemTel AvivSinai Sea of GalileeDead Sea
Mediterranean Sea
Damascus
Beirut
Jordan RiverSlide9
“It would be my greatest sadness to see Zionists (Jews) do to Palestinian Arabs much of what Nazis did to Jews.”
― Albert Einstein
“You cannot continue to victimize someone else just because you yourself were a victim once—there has to be a limit” ―
Edward W. Said“Palestine is the anvil of our souls.”
― Clovis Maksoud
“We can't just run away. It's our land. Our people. We have a duty.”
―
Selma
Dabbagh
,
Out of It
“People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction.”
―
Noam Chomsky
“Israeli occupation exposes us very young to the extremes of our emotions, until we cannot feel except in the extreme.”
―
Susan
Abulhawa
,
Mornings in
Jenin
“Now for a good twelve-hour sleep, I told myself. Twelve solid hours. Let birds sing, let people go to work. Somewhere out there, a volcano might blow, Israeli commandos might decimate a Palestinian village. I couldn't stop it. I was going to sleep.”
―
Haruki
Murakami
,
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
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His majesty’s government view with
favour
the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people.Slide11
“
supporting a Jewish entity in Palestine would mobilize America's influential Jewish community to support United States intervention in the war”
Basically, American Jews would use their power and influence in US politics to get the US into World War II.
There was also a fear that Germany might promise Palestine to the Jews first and therefore keeping the US out of the war.
(4 million Jews living in America at the time)Slide12
Ottoman Empire (Turkey)Slide13
Problems with the Balfour Declaration…
The British had also promised Palestine to the Arabs in 1915.
The McMahon Agreement
If the Arabs rise up and fight the Turks, they’d be given Palestine if Great Britain won the war. Slide14
After WWI, both Arabs and Jews thought Palestine belonged to them.
But of course, who got control of the land?Slide15
Sykes-Picot Agreement 1916
Great Britain and France agreed to divide up the Ottoman Empire after victory in WWI.Slide16
League of Nations
It was decided that Britain and France be given mandates in the Middle East.
Mandate: an official order or commission to do somethingSlide17
As promised, Jews began moving to Palestine after
WWI."The Zionists are after a Jewish state with the Arabs as hewers of wood and drawers of water. That is not my view. I want the Arabs to have a chance and I do not want a Jewish State"Slide18Slide19
What is
Aliyah?Slide20