Israel+and+Palestine+Question

**Essential Questions**:

 * ** Can people live in peace together when deeply held beliefs and views are in conflict? **
 * ** Should the international community play a role in helping countries establish self-determination? **
 * ** Is it ever OK for victims to become the persecutors? **
 * ** Is violence justified when access to resources is cut off? **
 * ** Does the Holocaust excuse Israel from overreaching partition boundaries with Palestine? **


 * 1.) People can live in peace together with different beliefs but it would be a very "weak" and unstable peace where violence can happen easily. In the past, people of different cultures and religion are often persecuted by those who had different beliefs and living together often causes quite a bit of unrest. Nowadays in the United States for example, most people of different ethnicity usually can get along so it shows that people can live in peace but other parts of the world like Africa and the Middle East shows otherwise.**


 * 2.) The international community should play a role in helping countries establish self-determination as the international community should pay attention in respecting the independence of other countries and ensure that they are able to survive in the cruel world.**


 * 3.) Victims should never become persecutors since that is just revenge and would make them susceptible to international justice and would make the victims just as bad as their own perpetrators.**


 * 4.) Violence should never be justified at all as that would just create more reasons and a chain of events to justify other reasons for violence and would continue to happen.**


 * 5.) It does not excuse Israel as even creating Israel is pushing the boundaries in taking land from Palestine and Israel annexing more land would be borderline conquest by Israel on Palestine.**

__**DJ on Israel and Palestine Video:**__



__Reflection:__ The video was biased towards Palestinians in support of them while it antagonizes the US and Israel. The video focused hard on how the Palestinians were forced out of their homeland and was not allowed back in. Israel was also portrayed as being oppressors with images of tanks moving around and soldiers looking menacingly at Palestinian people. The video also highlights how the Jews gained much more land and more benefits over non-Jews such as Palestinians which was shown in the animated video with the Jewish living in big apartments with a swimming pool while the Palestinians get a brick hut with a small well that only let out a drop of water. The bias of the video is that it sympathizes with the Palestinians while showing Israel and their allies as oppressors.

__Terms:__ **Opener: Picture Detective**:
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Question: Is there a reason why the faces of the Arabic, white chess pieces are so out of proportion or at least look so funny? Why does only the Israel soldier have a gun? Significance of the Arab nation's placement?
 * Ask a question
 * What clues do you see do you see?
 * What is the message of the cartoon

Clues:
 * Arabic nations represented by white chess pieces. Some are laughing.
 * Israel the solo black chess piece.
 * "Go ahead! He took your square -- Take it back!"
 * "The pawn..."
 * Size and power of nations shown as how big each chess piece is.
 * Palestine has gun pointed at it by Israel.
 * All Arabic nations are facing Israel, preparing to attack.
 * White moves first

Message: Israel is going to attack Palestine to take back land that Israel believes is rightfully theres but doing so would probably involve all the other Arabic nations who would defend Palestine. However, all the Arabic nations being prepared to attack may just be Israel's own perception and not exactly reality. Palestine used as pawn to defeat Israel.

__Israel/Palestine Questions:__ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ATAZNS7Nmls_GMDgT6ZSlgbX0q9a_F57oH7hXzIITiI/edit?usp=sharing

__Israel/Palestine Cartoon Video:__ Message: The message of the video is that often times there is a need for one to defend themselves from attackers. Israel would be the kid who is the person who is being picked on and the Arabic nations would be the kid with the slingshot and airplanes who gets hit. Israel here is minding their own business but gets harssed by the Arabs constantly. When Israel does something to prevent this from happening, Israel becomes the bad guy and is shown to the world as such because of them throwing fists first. If people keeping harassing Israel, Israel would take action.

Bias: The bias would be that the video sympathizes with Israel by saying that it needs to defend themselves and has a right to do so. The video has the Star of David on it and displays the Arabians as being violent people.

I n the late 1880's a group of Zionists traveled to Palestine to see what it offered as a Jewish homeland. One Zionist said, when he returned to Europe;
 * "The Bride is beautiful but she is married to another man" **
 * What was meant by this quote:

The quote means that the land of Palestine is a nice homeland that the Jews could move to and live happily but unfortunately the land is already occupied and settled by the Palestinian Arabs and would not have enough room for the Jews to settle in.


 * Reflection: Part 1 Guide questions: **


 * 1. What information did you find most interesting about the conflict from this portion of the reader? **
 * 2. Explain and give examples of how other nations and international organizations impacted the conflict. **

1.) The information I found most interesting about the conflict is how Britain and France handled the issue of dividing up Palestine after WWI. Britain had made three different promises and agreements to three different parties regarding the exact same area on what to do with it. They ended up splitting Palestine into different mandates and dividing it up with France. Basically, Britain delayed the promises and declarations made to the Jewish and Arabic people and even now did not help solve what they had started.

2.) Britain and France had controlled the area of Palestine and Lebanon after consulting the League of Nations asking for mandates and shaped the politics of Palestine for a couple of decades, angering the Arabs in the process. Since Britan had promised both the Jews and Arabs Palestine as a homeland, Britain ended up passing legislation and making decisions alongside the UN on Jewish immigration laws and about splitting up Palestine into a Jewish state and a Palestinian state. Still, Palestine had suffered from violence as Jews and Arabs fought over claims and land grabs from the incoming Jews.

**Reflection on Guide questions 2**: (copy and paste and answer directly in your wiki)

 * ** How did the UN try to keep peace in the region? **
 * ** How did war impact the region? **
 * ** Reflect on the treatment of Palestinian refugees **


 * 1) The UN tried to keep peace in the region by dividing Palestine into two different states: one Jewish and one Arab, in an effort to keep the two groups from clashing with each other. Israel would be formed and Palestine would be formed.
 * 2) The war ended up with the destruction of the military of Syria, Jordan, and Egypt as well as giving Israel control of Gaza and the Sinai Peninsula, the Golan Heights from Jordan as well as the West Bank. Israel is getting bigger while Palestine, smaller.
 * 3) The refugees were considered citizens in Jordan but in the rest of the Arab world, they were not exactly welcomed by their Arab brothers. Lebanon for example disliked the refugees, blaming them for the cause of the civil war that took over Lebanon during the 1960s and were not welcomed with the Lebanese wanting the refugees expelled. In Israel, most of the Palestinians were considered second-class citizens by the government and were discriminated against in rights and in benefits over the Jewish population by the government. Palestinians in Israel considered to be traitors by the rest of the Arab world.


 * Visual Time line of Israeli- Palestine Conflict[[image:mastromaurowh/Timeline of Israel Palestine.PNG caption="Timeline of Israel Palestine.PNG"]] : **
 * If this is difficult to read, the link is [|Here] **


 * Directions: Look at the map that spans 1917 to the present, make five observations about the changes you see and why they happened**
 * Israel was formed during 1948-1949
 * Jewish land covered about 5-10% of the land during 1946.
 * The important international cities of Jerusalem and Bethlehem are both in the Palestinian West Bank area but they soon became under Israeli control in the present,
 * A good amount of Palestinian land were taken by Israel as a result of of the Arab-Israeli War.
 * Palestinians control 10% or less of the land in Israel by the present.


 * Guide Questions 3:**
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 * Opener****:**


 * ** Pair/Share responses to questions **


 * ** Copy and paste the reflection questions below and Answer the following reflection questions on Guide questions 3 directly into your wiki: **
 * Reflection Questions 3: **


 * 1. What role did the international community play in the 1967 War? **
 * 2. How can "language be used to one's advantage? (UN resolution 242) **
 * 3. Evaluate the treatment of Palestinian refugees by Israelis after the war? what are some possible reasons for this treatment? **


 * 1) The Soviet Union had told Syria that Israel was massing troops by the Syrian-Israel border which prompted mobilization by Syrian, Jordanian, and Egyptian forces and eventually sparked the war after Israel attacked first. The US and UN later pressured Israel to give back the Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip back to their rightful owners of Egypt and Palestine.
 * 2) Israel and the US used the fact that the English version of the UN Resolution 242 had omitted a "the" when describing "territories" which they used to their advantage in saying that Israel only had to give back part of the occupied land but not all of it.
 * 3) Palestinians rights were suppressed with basic freedoms such as freedom of the press were not allowed. Any expression of Palestinian nationalism were also not allowed and could easily be arrested for it. Many Palestinian men had already been carted off to prison. Those who were in prison were also tortured, sometimes to death and are otherwise subject to other forms of interrogation.


 * __Comment on Six Day War Video:__**
 * Syrian delegate believes Israel broke ceasefire in moving tanks to the Jordan River.
 * Soviet Union broke diplomatic relations with Israel and threatened sanctions.
 * Israel claimed that it happened before the ceasefire and that them winning the war removes all armistice.
 * Israel able to take the West Bank and the Sinai Peninsula after beating back Egyptian forces.
 * Gaza surrenders after heavy bombardment
 * Israeli forces more organized and armed than enemies.
 * Egyptian president and several senior military commanders all resigned after the defeat.
 * Israel able to capture Bethlehem from Jordan defenders as well as capturing Jerusalem.
 * First time Jews were allowed to go to the Wailing Wall and the ancient church of Solomon
 * Soviets and allies sees Israel as aggressive expansion, Israel only itself would determine its future.


 * Reflection Questions for Guide Questions 4: (Copy,paste, and answer in your wiki:) **


 * ** Evaluate Israel's response to the 1st Intifada. How could it have been handled differently? **
 * ** Evaluate the US role in the peace attempts in the region. What were the causes of successes and failures? **
 * ** Assess the role of Israel and the PLO in attempts at peace. **
 * 1) Israel used force, beatings and violence in order to break up the uprising and demonstrations. 1,000 Palestinians died as a result of the beatings. Many other were also arrested. It could have been handled differently by not using violence and opening talks with the demonstrators to come to a more peaceful solution. Violence would only serve to make Israel look worse on the international stage for killing protesters.
 * 2) The US had mostly failed in getting anything done with the talks but were successful in making the talks happen via pressuring Israel into doing peace talks with the Arab states. The failure was that the talks did nothing and only served to deteriorate human rights in the Occupied territories as well as spurring on more Islamic extremist attacks. The peace attempts in the Camp David Accords were technically successful but it ultimately did not work all too well in reality.
 * 3) Both of the two sides were too stubborn to get anything done and were more focused on their own individual agendas. Israel never really intended to make much of the talks, stalling for time to annex the West Bank and were adamant in not giving much, if any, land to the Palestinians. Israel also did not want to lose land at all. They were not really afraid of the PLO either and were more focused on groups like Hamas. The PLO were way too weak at this point to be taken seriously at all with Hamas and other Islamic groups disputing its authority and so the PLO agreed to whatever Israel offered to them.


 * __Yom Kippur DJ:__**

https://docs.google.com/document/d/15lX3v5IXVD71EZiMD3Wt5AyRqg_1w242RHqa94zuQGM/edit?usp=sharing
 * __Political Cartoon:__**

**Monday. April 28th:**

**Extended opener: Periods 3 and 4**

__**Reflection**__ **__questions on Guide Questions 5:__ (Copy and paste into your wiki)**

**1. Discuss the viewpoint of the Israelis and the Palestinians on the barrier between Israel and the West Bank.**The Israelis put up the wall because they realized that it is impossible for Israel to annex the West Bank while still being a majority Jewish state and so created a wall to separate the populations. Israel was also afraid of Palestinian suicide bombers and attacks by militants and created the wall to prevent the loss of life. The Palestinians see it as an "apartheid wall" due to it cutting communities into two and reconfiguring the geography of the West Bank. **2. What do you see as the major stumbling blocks in the attempted peace talks discussed in this section?**The stumbling blocks is that simply Israel would not give up any land to Palestine and the PA is not willing to back off in asking for land to be returned to the West Bank so they could never agree on one thing since they always get on each others nerves.

**__Reflection Questions on Guide Questions 6:__ (Copy and paste into your wiki)**

**1. Do you think Palestine should be a full member of the UN? Why or why not?**Palestine should be a full member of the UN because Israel is a full member as well and I believe they could vote on proposals that relate to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict should they ever get pass the Security Council so to be fair, Palestine should get to be a member state or at least get the chance to have some say on what happens. **2. Evaluate how a lasting peace could be achieved in this conflict. Give specific evidence from your work** A lasting peace could be achieved in this conflict by actually letting the issue of the Conflict passing through the Security Council and into the General Assembly for it to debate on the issue as a whole rather than just have Russia and the US shoot it down every time the issue pops up. After that, the UN may finally be able to take some action rather than just endlessly debate on the issue and not do anything about it.

__** Israeli/Palestine Video Notes: **__ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1tHKDRYY-zQwF4WHezIek1D0yXwu5PZzzDQIpMRf-VVw/edit?usp=sharing

__** What does Palestine Statehood Mean Markup: **__ https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WMIyskK1IvDy_QAYx5FDYkq2hPX4iyp15RIFsWhiMCU/edit?usp=sharing

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UTTOpxzWNo6OtgyExEj9vhVPDwzTWg2NZIukUHKI7N8/edit?usp=sharing
 * __Letter Final Draft:__**