the roots of the arab-israeli conflict (1890s-2012)

Adopted from Ms. Susan M. Pojer

Horace Greeley HS Chappaqua, NY

Zionism

Theodore Herzl1860-1904

GOALS:The spiritual andpolitical renewal ofthe Jewish peoplein its ancestralhomeland ofPalestine.

Freedom from Western anti-Semitism.

The Middle East in 1914

Sykes-Picot Agreement, 1916

The Arab Revolt: 1916-1918

British Promise to the Jews: Balfour Declaration,

1917

Sir Arthur James Balfour

Br. Foreign Secretary

His Majesty’s Government views with favor the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people and will use their best endeavors 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…

The League of Nations Mandates

Oil Discovered in Mesopotamia! First discovered on Masjid-I Suleiman

in Persiain 1908.

Turkish-Petroleum Co. [TPC] founded in 1911 drill for oil in Mosul, Mesopotamia.

Britain signed a secret agreement with the sheikh of Kuwait who, while outwardly pledgingallegiance to the Ottoman Sultan in Istanbul,promised exclusive oil rights to the British.

Kuwait became a British protectorate in November, 1914.

In 1927, oil was struck in Kirkuk, Iraq, and the Iraq Petroleum Co. [IPC] was created.

Oil Becomes the New International

“Coin of the Realm!” American oil

companies [Texaco & Chevron], gainoil concessions in Bahrainin 1929.

In 1933, American oil

companies win an oilconcession in Saudi Arabia.

ARAMCO [Arab-American Oil Co,] is created in 1939.

Essential Question: How did Britain’s

actions in Palestine after 1918 lay the

groundwork for the on-going conflict between the Jews and the Arabs

in the Middle East today?

Jews & Arabs in Palestine, 1920 × In 1920, there

was 1 Jew toevery 10 Arabs inPalestine.

× By 1947, the ratio was 2 Arabs forevery Jew.

The Arabs felt that they were loosing control of their “country!”

British Mandate

in PalestineCreated

July, 1922

Jewish Settlements: The Kibbutz System

First one founded in 1908. Communal living. “Make the Desert

Bloom!”

The Peel Commissi

on Partition

Plan, 1937

Hitler’s

“FinalSolutio

n” The Jewish population in each country in

1942.

Aliyah Bet : Illegal Jewish Immigration

Aliyah Bet Illegal Jewish immigration to Palestine.

The Exodus, 1947.

Palestine

Population in 1946

Jewish “Freedom Fighters”

(or “Terrorists”?)

Irgun Zvai Leumi[Natl. Military

Org.]

Avraham Stern &The Stern Gang

U. N. Partition Plan of 1947

Israel Becomes a Nation:

May 14, 1948

David Ben-Gurion,

1st Prime Minister

Chaim Weizmann,

1st President

War Begins!: May 15, 1948

Arab Refugees, 1948

The Palestinian Diaspora begins!

Armistice Signed, 1949

Israel:1947

&Israel:1949

Palestinian Refugees

Palestinian Diaspora

Six-Day War (1967)

UN Resolution 242

UN Resolution 338

Palestine Liberation Organization

Yassir Arafat

Camp David Accords (1979)

President President Prime Minister

Anwar Sadat Jimmy Carter Menachem Begin

of Egypt of the U. S. Of Israel

Camp David Accords (1979)

Palestinian Intifada-Part I

(1987-1993)

Palestinian Intifada-Part I

(1987-1993)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Israeli%E2%80%93Palestinian_conflict

You tube video link

• http://youtu.be/vXKba7SHPvw how the Arab israeli conflict started-history of Palestine-1948