Israeli+-+Palestine+Question

**Essential Questions**:

 * ** Can people live in peace together when deeply held beliefs and views are in conflict? **
 * It depends on the types of beliefs and how the people react to other beliefs as well because some people are more pacifist towards it but some will be outraged that someone else has different beliefs. No, because there will always be some sort of conflict between them.... They can because there are other countries that this occurs in like the United States.
 * ** Should the international community play a role in helping countries establish self-determination? **
 * I feel as if self-determination is something that each country will develop on its own, i guess that the international community could help a little but not a lot because its something they do on their own. Its non of their business.
 * ** Is it ever OK for victims to become the persecutors? **
 * No, i don't think its ever OK for the victims to become the persecutors because then they don't become victims anymore. They create more victims.
 * ** Is violence justified when access to resources is cut off? **
 * No, violence is never justified. It gives them a right to be outraged and protest but violence is never justified. Sometimes because when they are given bad qualities so they must turn to violence to get whats theirs.
 * ** Does the Holocaust excuse Israel from overreaching partition boundaries with Palestine? **
 * No, because the holocaust was issue out of this conflict and it doesn't really have to do anything with this so the Palestine's don't really have to due with this. If anything the Jews should have learned from this.

** Introduction to the Israeli-Palestine Question: **


The Video that we watched was bias of the Palestine side. It used evidence to support this by when they said that the US funded the Jewish community with weapons and this shows how they tried to make it seem as if the Palestine’s are the minority and makes it seem like everyone is in favor of the Jewish community and against the Palestine community. The video makes Palestine out to seem as the victim and Israel is the perpetrator. They do not mention anything wrong that Palestine may have done or anything good that Israel may have done. It also says how the US has just created more conflicts by creating peace talks when they encouraged them to have more peace talks. The video makes the US look really bad by making seem as villains in all of this. It talks about how the United States poured money into Israel and their army.
 * Reflection: **

Key Terms:
Terms: Israeli- Arab Conflict

Opener- Picture Detective:

 * Why does the israel soldier have a gun but no one else has a gun?
 * I see people who seem to be laughing at them, and those people are to represent the bordering nation/ Arab nations. However Palestine is the only one that seems scared.
 * The bordering nations are laughing at both israel and palestine and encouraging palestine to stand up for themselves and take back what is theres.

Cartoon Video- Opener:

 * The message of this video is that everyone thinks the Jews are the ones that are causing damage to the Arab but theyre really just defending themselves like the kid in blue did in the movie.
 * The bias is of the Jewish community because it shows how the kid in Blue, the Jew is always being picked on and then when he reacts he gets in trouble and also at the end it showed the star of David which is a symbol for the Jews.

Quote:
In 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" **


 * This quote just shows how the Bride, they are referring to the the land, is nice but it already belongs to Palestine and it already is theirs. The land is totally populated by the Palestinians, the land belongs to them.

Guide Questions:
Guide Questions

Reflection: Guide Questions-Part 1:

 * 1. What information did you find most interesting about the conflict from this portion of the reader? **
 * The thing that i found most interesting from the reading was both sides had very different views on why they should stay there and how the Jews used a biblical reference to prove how they should be the ones who deserve the land and the Palestinians just use the fact that they've been using that land as a continuous place of residence, meaning that this land is pretty much there's and they cant just come and kick them out of their own land. I also learned how there are almost 100 times more Palestinians than Jews but still they insist in keeping most of the land for them selves.
 * 2. Explain and give examples of how other nations and international organizations impacted the conflict. **
 * The British are the biggest ones to blame because they promised both sides the same thing, they promised that land to both sides therefore they got their hopes up about keeping the land and thats what caused the biggest conflict in this.

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 * 1) Slowly transitions into being Israels land.
 * 2) The UN tried helping by creating the Partition plan.
 * 3) The Six day war left the land split into three parts.
 * 4) The UN wanted to make this land into an international zone.
 * 5) Between 1948 to 1967 the land was unchanged between both side, they both were left unchanged.

Reflection: Guide Questions - Part 2:

 * 1. How did the UN try to keep peace in the region? **
 * The UN tried keeping peace in this region by creating the partition plan which was going to separate western Palestine into two separate states. They tried partitioning the land between both lands.
 * 2. How did war impact the region? **
 * The war impacted this region as it left a large number of citizens dead and also damaged much of the land, damages that were hard to recover from. It also left the land divided into three parts. Israels getting bigger and Palestine is getting smaller because Israel has a bigger military and also they were stronger than Palestine.
 * 3. Reflect on the treatment of Palestinian refugees **
 * The Palestine refugees were treated very unfairly, this is mainly what caused to get outraged at the way they were being treated when they came in and took their land. They were treated like second hand citizens to the Jewish, because they're trying to get rid of all the Palestinians.

Reflection: Guide Questions - Part 3:

 * 1. What role did the international community play in the 1967 War? **
 * In the 1967 War the international community intervened in it like Britain and France and Soviet Union. They tried to settle things but then others just made it worse. Like when the UN passed the Resolution it helped Palestine gain some land back.


 * 2. How can "language be used to one's advantage? (UN resolution 242) **
 * Language can be used to ones advantage because when the Resolution was translated, in French it stated that they needed to remove land that was conquered during the six days war and in English it said they only had to give back some of the land. They pretty much found a loop hole in it so that they didnt have to give land back.


 * 3. Evaluate the treatment of Palestinian refugees by Israelis after the war? what are some possible reasons for this treatment? **
 * The Palestinians had no rights to anything, they were pretty much imprisoned by the Israeli. They were treated like second class citizens, they treated them like this so that they would create an outrage and also they wanted an entirely Jewish nation.

Notes on Six Day War Video:

 * Syria ambassador charges Israel
 * Soviet Union ambassador charges Israel
 * thousands of prisoners are taken
 * Egypt had no air support as their air force was taken down by the Israel planes.
 * Israel took Bethlehem and Jerusalem.
 * They took the holy city from Jordan
 * The president of Egypt resigned because he believed that any nation that could be defeated in 6 days then he clearly wasn't a good leader.

Reflection: Guide Questions - Part 4:

 * ** Evaluate Israel's response to the 1st Intifada. How could it have been handled differently? **
 * Israel engaged in massive arrests since they were under many forms of civil disobedience, Many leaders of the intifada were put in jail as the movement lost its “power”. Pretty much they weren't okay with it and they decided to punish those who were part of it. They had death squads and people who were put into jail for long period of time. They could have treated it differently by trying to use a diplomatic means instead of killing everyone and putting everyone in prison.
 * ** Evaluate the US role in the peace attempts in the region. What were the causes of successes and failures? **
 * The US tried to create piece between the two by passing a peace agreement but it wasnt accepted by both sides. President Bush tried pressuring Israeli prime minister. They shouldn't have allowed the Israeli to put down so much additions to it in order for them to meet they're approach.
 * ** Assess the role of Israel and the PLO in attempts at peace. **
 * At first their attempts at peace was going well but then then PLO wanted more land so the conflict came back and they began to argue again over the land that Israel took from them in the war. Tried having peace talks. Now they fear Hamas more than anything, and they didnt wanna have to shrink the size of Israel.

Dialectal Journal on Yom Kippur:
Reading on the Yom Kippur War

Yom Kippur Political Cartoon:
Political Cartoon Explanation

**Extended opener:**
The Israeli were in favor of it and they knew that it was impossible for them to conquer the west bank so they just built the wall, and the Palestinians didn't like it because their communities were split into two and major trade routes were stopped. Israeli were tired of people getting across and attacking them. It wasn't going very well and also the plan Obama tried to put into play also wasn't going well as his administration has been holding him back and he hasn't been able to do much about it yet.
 * Reflection questions on Guide Questions 5: **
 * 1. Discuss the viewpoint of the Israelis and the Palestinians on the barrier between Israel and the West Bank? **
 * 2. What do you see as the major stumbling blocks in the attempted peace talks discussed in this section? **

I dont think they should be a full member because they arent a full nation, even though its a conflict going on at the moment i believe that neither Israel nor Palestine should be a full member, they should be together as a member if anything. I believe that lasting peace could be achieved if they performed better peace talks and if they could come down to an agreement of splitting the land into half, half for each side.
 * Reflection Questions on Guide Questions 6: **
 * 1. Do you think Palestine should be a full member of the UN? Why or why not? **
 * 2. Evaluate how a lasting peace could be achieved in this conflict. Give specific evidence from your work **

** Different viewpoints on the Barrier Wall: **
notes
 * Which of the two videos presents the strongest argument and why? **
 * I think that the first video present the strongest argument because it's an actual professor talking about what happened and even though his account is 2nd person account because he wasn't there when everything was happening and all but its still seems to be correct because he says it with such confidence. Also, it has a stronger argument than the second video because the second one is just people opinion and obviously its going to be very bias because its of the people living in Israel, obviously its going to be against the Palestine's.

What does Palestinian Statehood Mean?:
Markup

Assessment on Israel Palestine Question:
Final Draft