Israel+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 cannot live in peace together when their personal beliefs and views are at conflict. They may pretend to be at peace, but there will always be an uprising of some sort that disrupt the peace eventually. // //2.) No, the international community should not play a role in helping countries establish self-determination because then all countries will be looking to each other for help, and it will only erupt more trouble than what should be. // //3.) No, it's never okay for victims to become persecutors. This starts a never ending cycle of war that only leads to death and no peace. // //4.) Violence is sometimes justified when resources are cut off. If people are not given the opportunity to live and survive, they have to turn to some sort of violence and survival tactics in order to survive. // //5.) No this does not excuse Israel from what they are doing. It would eventually become yet another Genocide which is never excusable. If it was excused, peoples lives would be threatened and it would start an unnecessary war or even Genocide. //



//DJ on Israel-P ////alestine Introd ////uction Video //

//__**Unit Terms:**__ [|Here]//

__**//Reflection on the Introduction Video://**__ //The Introduction Video that we watched was in favor of the Palestine's. It made the Jewish people look cruel by taking away the land that was once the Palestine's. It only mentioned the bad that the Jewish people did and not anything bad that the Palestine's did. It used evidence to support this by saying that the US funded the Jewish community with weapons. It also says how the US has just created more conflicts by creating peace talks. It makes the U.S out to be the instigators. // 
 * **//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Ask a question //**
 * **//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What clues do you see do you see? //**
 * **//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What is the message of the cartoon? //**

//~Why is Israel the only one that is armed and in black?// //~Each neighboring nation is dressed in their normal clothes, surrounding the two main pieces as Israel and Palestine. Palestine is significantly smaller than all the other pieces. Palestine is referred to as "the pawn." Referring to squares as their territory. This after all was a fight over territory and not religion or anything like that. Israel is cornered, surrounded by people who want them gone however they are not scared.// //~The message of this cartoon is that everyone is ganging up on Israel, encouraging Palestine to take back the land that was once theirs.//

//The message of this video was to show how Israel was constantly picked on by Palestine. When Israel finally stood up for themselves, it seemed as though the whole world turned against them. The bias is toward Israel. This cartoon is pro-Israel. The bigger kid in the white represents Israel. He is instigated by the little boy with the headband which represents Palestine. The quote "the world is not a middle school" represents that you cannot go around picking on other people. This video showed that the Israelis did not show excessive force, however they did stand up and defend themselves when the time came.//
 * __//Israel VS Palestine Cartoo////n// //Video://__**

__//**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">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; **//__ __//**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"The Bride is beautiful but she is married to another man" **//__ //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">This quote is referring to Palestine as the Bride. The Zionist is saying that the land belongs to the Arabs. He's trying to say that it would be a beautiful homeland for the Jewish, but it is now married to the Arabs. The Arabs and the Palestine's now live together. It is foreshadowing that they knew there was going to be some sort of complications. //
 * __//**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What was meant by this quote: **//__

__**//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Palestine - Israel Article Questions: //**__ //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[|Here] //

__**//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reflection: Part 1 Guide questions: //**__ __**//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1. What information did you find most interesting about the conflict from this portion of the reader? //**__ __**//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">2. Explain and give examples of how other nations and international organizations impacted the conflict. //**__

//<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">1.) I find the most interesting thing was how they all desperately wanted their land. None of them wanted to give up on it or back down because they decided that it belonged to them. It was a "Holy Land" which was quite ironic because it caused more deaths and tragedies than it caused good. What I also found interesting was when they found out that they were being promised a land that was also being promised to someone else. They didn't want to share their land with anyone. // // 2.) The United States may have made the conflict worse by providing Israel with weapons and arsenal to protect the land that they now own. Britain increased tensions by things such as Hussein McMahon, Balfour, and also the Sykes agreement. //


 * 1) //Started out being all yellow, all belonged to Palestine.//
 * 2) //Israel slowly started to appear (green) as the time continued to go on.//
 * 3) //Between 1948 and 1967, there were no changes within the takeover of the land.//
 * 4) //Palestine was still willing to join the UN even after what they had done to them.//
 * 5) //The Six Day War left the land divided into three sections.//

__**//Reflection on Second Section of Guide Questions://**__ __<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How did the UN try to keep peace in the region? __ // The UN tried creating the peace in this region by creating the partition plan which was going to separate Western Palestine into two separate states. This was a slow transition into not being solely Israels land. The Zionist's accepted this partition with hopes that they could expand their territory. The Palestinians didn't like this because it recognized Israel as a nation when Palestine themselves weren't recognized yet. //

__<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How did war impact the region? __ //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">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 had a significantly larger military and also they were stronger than Palestine. //

__<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">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 on Third Section of Guide Questions://**__ __<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">What role did the international community play in the 1967 War? __ // In the 1967 War, the international community got involved as they got in the middle of the six day war. The United States was allies with Israel, Britain and France attacked Egypt, and the Soviet Union misinformed the Syrian government. //

__<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">How can "language be used to one's advantage? (UN resolution 242) __ //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">When writing things in different languages, things can be lost in translation. This was shown when the French and the English wrote the resolutions. The French one requested the withdraw of ALL territories from Israel. The English one stated simply that they had to just return "territory." The Israelis used this one to their advantage because it required the withdraw of less land. This meant that they had to return less land than they would've had to give back if they followed the French interpretation of the resolution. //

__<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Evaluate the treatment of Palestinian refugees by Israelis after the war? what are some possible reasons for this treatment? __ // Palestinians refugees were treated as second class citizens and as if they were lower than the rest of the citizens by the Israelis. They were stripped of basic civil and political rights and were not treated as fairly as the Israeli citizens were. They lost many of their freedoms. Israel wanted it to be a pure Jewish nation and in addition to this, they believed that they may have been terrorists. //

__**// Notes on the Six Day War //// Video: //**__

// **~**700 Israeli troops were killed. // //** ~ ** Soviet Union gets involved because they see how the United States was also involved. //
 * // ~ //**// They took the Holy City from Jordan. //
 * // ~ //**// The president of Jordan resigned after the war. //
 * // ~ //**// A significant amount of the generals of the army also retired after the war due to embarrassment. //
 * // ~ //**// Believed that the the Israeli's defeated all of their enemies in a matter of 6 days. //

//__**<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Reflection Questions for Guide Questions 4: **__// __<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Evaluate Israel's response to the 1st Intifada. How could it have been handled differently? __ //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">There were many acts of civil disobedience taking place which led to ////<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Israel engaging in massive arrests. Many of their leaders of the Intifada were put in jail as the movement lost its “power”. They weren't okay with it and they decided to punish those who took part in it. This could have been handled in a way not involving violence, as it stirred up more conflict. //

__<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Evaluate the US role in the peace attempts in the region. What were the causes of successes and failures? __ // The United States tried to mediate between the two countries but they mainly supported Israel. They increased military aid but they did try to make agreements. George H. Bush encouraged peace talks at conferences in Madrid, Spain between Israel's Prime Minister and other Arab states. Israel didn't want to talk about Palestinian freedom and the United States agreed with them on that. //

__<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Assess the role of Israel and the PLO in attempts at peace. __ // Israel attempted having peace talks with the PLO. They were afraid of radical terrorist groups such as Hamas more than they were of the PLO. At first the PLO accepted agreements but they soon became angry as they wanted more land back. //

__**// Yom Kippur Wa //****// r //****// DJ: //**__// [|Here] //

//**__ Yom Kippur War Political __**__ **Cartoon**: __ [|Here] //

__**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. __ //<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">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 then communities were split into two and it stopped major trade routes. There was only one exit out of the wall which made the Palestinians feel like second class citizens yet again. //

__ 2. What do you see as the major stumbling blocks in the attempted peace talks discussed in this section? __ //It wasn't going very well and also the plan Obama tried to put into play wasn't working well as his administration has been holding him back. He hasn't been able to do much about this yet.//

**__Reflection Questions on Guide Questions 6:__** __ 1. Do you think Palestine should be a full member of the UN? Why or why not? __ //I don't think they should become a member of the United Nations because they aren't a full nation completely yet. There is a conflict going on there at the moment and I believe that neither Israel nor Palestine should be allowed to be a full member.//

__ 2. Evaluate how a lasting peace could be achieved in this conflict. Give specific evidence from your work __ //I believe that lasting peace could be achieved if they performed better peace talks and if they could come to an agreement of splitting the land into halves, half to each side.//

//__**Different Viewpoints on the Barrier Wall Notes:**__ [|Here]//

__**//Mark Up - What Does the Palestine Statehood// //Mean://**__ //[|Here]//

__**//Final Assessment://**__ //[|Here]//