iafs 1000 the arab-israeli conflict. outline history of british-controlled pal two key figures:...
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IAFS 1000
The Arab-Israeli Conflict
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Outline• History of British-controlled Pal
• Two key figures:
--Zionist Chaim Weizmann
--Palestinian Mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini
• Partition proposals
• Post-1948 developments and recent events
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Palestine• Britain’s conflicting WW I promises:
—Balfour Declaration
—McMahon-Hussein correspondence
• Mixed population: 80% Muslim, 10% Christian, 8% Jewish
• 1922: Palestine Mandate granted
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Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952)
• Russian-born biochemist
• Zionist leader
• Skillful negotiator
• Well-connected
http://www.art.man.ac.uk/RELTHEOL/JEWISH/EXHIBITION/BUTTONT0.HTML
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Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the Mufti (1897-1974)
• 1921: Grand Mufti
of Palestine
• President of
Supreme Muslim Council
• Palestinian Arab
nationalist leader
http://galeon.hispavista.com/historiadeisrael/mufti.jpg
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Palestine Mandate Timeline• 1920: Pogrom• 1922: Churchill
White Paper• 1929: Yom Kippur
attacks• 1936-39: Arab revolt• 1937: Peel
Commission Report
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/israel/images/israel03.jpg
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Partition
• The territorial division of a previously unified administrative entity carried out by an external party
– vs. secession:: one part of a political entity withdrawing itself from the whole
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Palestine Mandate Timeline• 1939 White Paper
• WWII:
Mufti to Germany
• 1947: British decision to abandon Mandate
• 1948: British withdrawal, Arab-Jewish civil war
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_146-1987-004-09A,_Amin_al_Husseini_und_Adolf_Hitler.jpg
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Arab-Israeli Conflict• 1967 war• 1973 war• 1987 intifada• 1990s peace process• 2000 intifada• 2005 withdrawal of Gaza settlers• 2008/2009 Gaza war• “Palestine Papers” leak