Israeli Arab Conflict
The Israelis and Arabs have been fighting over the Holy Land, Palestine for many years. They both have different reasons for wanting Palestine and there have been many conflicts and wars between the two groups.
Arabs
The Arabs have had the area of Palestine for about two thousand years. After World War One the League of Nations said that the Jews should have there own state. But after WWII the United Nations gave the Jews an area of Palestine known as Israel. Now the Arabs are thinking the UN can not just give these people are land that we have had for about two thousand years.
Jews
The Jews are saying that it does not matter if the Arabs they have had it for about two thousand years because the Jews had that land before two thousand years ago. The Jews were separated from that land, some tribes went north to Europe and Asia and some went west to North Africa. When the UN gave them that land, Zionist started moving to Palestine "Zionism is the movement to unite the Jewish people of the Diaspora and settle them in Palestine" (Cohen).
Important dates
"In 1947 the UN agreed to a plan dividing Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states" (Peretz). Not everyone liked this idea in fact the Jews loved it but the Arabs hated it some fighting broke out between the two groups. 1948 Israel became an independent Jewish state. All most exactly after the leaders of Israel announced that the Arab nation launched an attack hoping to overthrow Israel. The next year Israel beat the Arab nations and got some of Arab Palestine, some of those places include West Jerusalem and 'Akko. The Six Day War in 1967 proved to be a good win for Israel after that war Israel controlled The Gaza Strip, Sinai Peninsula, All of Jerusalem, The West Bank, and the Golan Heights. "Following the war the guerrilla organizations within the Palestine Liberation Organization carried out terrorist attacks on Israeli schools, marketplaces, bus stations, and airports, with the stated objective of redeeming Palestine"(Peretz). Yet another terrorist attack was carried out against Israel, but this time at the 1972 Summer Olympics in West Germany eleven Israeli athletes were killed. In October 1973 Egypt and Syria joined forces on a surprise attack against Israel on Yom Kippur its most holiest holiday, there objective was to gain back the territories that were lost in the Six Day War. Israel suffered much causality but in three weeks they again beat the Arab force. In 1977 President Anwar al-Sadat flew to Jerusalem for peace talks with Israel Prime Minister Menachem Begin. U.S. President Jimmy Carter invited the two leaders to Camp David where an Egyptian-Israeli treaty was signed. "Sadat's peace treaty with Israel was harshly criticized by other Arab nations, who considered that he had betrayed the Arab cause. In 1981 Sadat was assassinated at a military parade"(Baerwald 486 and 487). The 1980s brought on a new kind of uprisings in the occupied territories that were called intifada. Intifada includes demonstrations, strikes and rock throwing attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians. Yitzhak Rabin was elected Prime Minister of Israel in June of 1992. Rabin formed a new government in hope of peace between the Arabs and Israelis. 1993 was an important year for peace. "After secret negotiations, Prime Minister Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat flew to Washington, DC, and agreed to the signing of a historic peace agreement." (Peretz). Under this treaty Israel allowed Palestinian self-rule in the Gaza Strip, West Bank town of Jericho. Self-rule was temporally derailed in 1994 when a Jew massacred twenty-nine Palestinian Arabs in a mosque at Hebron. Also in 1994 Israeli troops withdrew from Gaza Strip, which came under the power of the new Palestinian Authority, led by Yasir Arafat. A peace treaty signed by Rabin and King Hussein of Jordan ended forty-six years of war. "Septeraber 1995 Israel and the PLO signed a second peace agreement that led to Israel's withdrawal in late 1995 and early1996 from all Palestinian towns in the west bank except Hebron; theses towns then came under the rule of the Palestinian Authority"(Peretz). "On Noveraber 4,1995 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated at a peace rally by Yigal amir"(Cnn.com)
Summary
Israel will continue to be disputed land with the Arabs on one side and the Israelis on the other, fighting will only bring more blooRABhed and stall peace talks. With the Increased terrorist attacks and borabing the talks are going nowhere and will get nowhere unless these people calm down and live in peace with there neigrabroador.
Works Cited
Baerwald, Thomas and Celeste Fraser, Wold Geography. New York: Prentice Hall, 1992
Peretz, Don. "Israel (country)." Microsoft Encarta. CD ROM. 1998.
"Israel Conflict." CNN, April 10,1998: Online. Internet. AOL
The Israelis and Arabs have been fighting over the Holy Land, Palestine for many years. They both have different reasons for wanting Palestine and there have been many conflicts and wars between the two groups.
Arabs
The Arabs have had the area of Palestine for about two thousand years. After World War One the League of Nations said that the Jews should have there own state. But after WWII the United Nations gave the Jews an area of Palestine known as Israel. Now the Arabs are thinking the UN can not just give these people are land that we have had for about two thousand years.
Jews
The Jews are saying that it does not matter if the Arabs they have had it for about two thousand years because the Jews had that land before two thousand years ago. The Jews were separated from that land, some tribes went north to Europe and Asia and some went west to North Africa. When the UN gave them that land, Zionist started moving to Palestine "Zionism is the movement to unite the Jewish people of the Diaspora and settle them in Palestine" (Cohen).
Important dates
"In 1947 the UN agreed to a plan dividing Palestine into separate Arab and Jewish states" (Peretz). Not everyone liked this idea in fact the Jews loved it but the Arabs hated it some fighting broke out between the two groups. 1948 Israel became an independent Jewish state. All most exactly after the leaders of Israel announced that the Arab nation launched an attack hoping to overthrow Israel. The next year Israel beat the Arab nations and got some of Arab Palestine, some of those places include West Jerusalem and 'Akko. The Six Day War in 1967 proved to be a good win for Israel after that war Israel controlled The Gaza Strip, Sinai Peninsula, All of Jerusalem, The West Bank, and the Golan Heights. "Following the war the guerrilla organizations within the Palestine Liberation Organization carried out terrorist attacks on Israeli schools, marketplaces, bus stations, and airports, with the stated objective of redeeming Palestine"(Peretz). Yet another terrorist attack was carried out against Israel, but this time at the 1972 Summer Olympics in West Germany eleven Israeli athletes were killed. In October 1973 Egypt and Syria joined forces on a surprise attack against Israel on Yom Kippur its most holiest holiday, there objective was to gain back the territories that were lost in the Six Day War. Israel suffered much causality but in three weeks they again beat the Arab force. In 1977 President Anwar al-Sadat flew to Jerusalem for peace talks with Israel Prime Minister Menachem Begin. U.S. President Jimmy Carter invited the two leaders to Camp David where an Egyptian-Israeli treaty was signed. "Sadat's peace treaty with Israel was harshly criticized by other Arab nations, who considered that he had betrayed the Arab cause. In 1981 Sadat was assassinated at a military parade"(Baerwald 486 and 487). The 1980s brought on a new kind of uprisings in the occupied territories that were called intifada. Intifada includes demonstrations, strikes and rock throwing attacks on Israeli soldiers and civilians. Yitzhak Rabin was elected Prime Minister of Israel in June of 1992. Rabin formed a new government in hope of peace between the Arabs and Israelis. 1993 was an important year for peace. "After secret negotiations, Prime Minister Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat flew to Washington, DC, and agreed to the signing of a historic peace agreement." (Peretz). Under this treaty Israel allowed Palestinian self-rule in the Gaza Strip, West Bank town of Jericho. Self-rule was temporally derailed in 1994 when a Jew massacred twenty-nine Palestinian Arabs in a mosque at Hebron. Also in 1994 Israeli troops withdrew from Gaza Strip, which came under the power of the new Palestinian Authority, led by Yasir Arafat. A peace treaty signed by Rabin and King Hussein of Jordan ended forty-six years of war. "Septeraber 1995 Israel and the PLO signed a second peace agreement that led to Israel's withdrawal in late 1995 and early1996 from all Palestinian towns in the west bank except Hebron; theses towns then came under the rule of the Palestinian Authority"(Peretz). "On Noveraber 4,1995 Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated at a peace rally by Yigal amir"(Cnn.com)
Summary
Israel will continue to be disputed land with the Arabs on one side and the Israelis on the other, fighting will only bring more blooRABhed and stall peace talks. With the Increased terrorist attacks and borabing the talks are going nowhere and will get nowhere unless these people calm down and live in peace with there neigrabroador.
Works Cited
Baerwald, Thomas and Celeste Fraser, Wold Geography. New York: Prentice Hall, 1992
Peretz, Don. "Israel (country)." Microsoft Encarta. CD ROM. 1998.
"Israel Conflict." CNN, April 10,1998: Online. Internet. AOL