Israel & Palestine -- Problems & Solutions!
In 1947, the United Nations proposed a plan to partition Palestine and create a homeland for Jewish people. More than 50 years later, conflict between Jews and Palestinians is still unresolved-and it is often marked by violence. Learn the history of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and the historical claims to the land that both sides have made.
You will be responsible for writing a personal account from the point of view of an Israeli or a Palestinian student.
To begin your research, you will want to investigate several of the following issues. These are examples...you may research as many as you need to in order to write your letter!
Possible investigation topics...
• Who is involved in this conflict?
• What region is at the heart of the conflict? Describe the claim that both groups have on this region.
• What is Israel? When was it founded and by whom?
• What is the Zionist Movement?
• Describe the role of the U.S. in the establishment of Israel, a Jewish state.
• How did the Holocaust affect the formation of a Jewish homeland?
• What is the PLO? Whom does it represent?
• Which nations are opposed to a Jewish state? (Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt)
• What was the intifada? Who was involved and what caused it?
• What effect did World War II have on the conflict?
• What caused the rise of militant Islam? What is its link to modern terrorism? What is Hamas?
• Briefly summarize the following leaders’ association with and role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Yasser Arafat, Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat, Jimmy Carter, Yitzhak Rabin, Bill Clinton, Shimon Peres, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon.
From: http://gtm-media.discoveryeducation.com/videos/25364/D907D620-A85D-47FF-D3445DB742C6627F.pdf
You will be responsible for writing a personal account from the point of view of an Israeli or a Palestinian student.
To begin your research, you will want to investigate several of the following issues. These are examples...you may research as many as you need to in order to write your letter!
Possible investigation topics...
• Who is involved in this conflict?
• What region is at the heart of the conflict? Describe the claim that both groups have on this region.
• What is Israel? When was it founded and by whom?
• What is the Zionist Movement?
• Describe the role of the U.S. in the establishment of Israel, a Jewish state.
• How did the Holocaust affect the formation of a Jewish homeland?
• What is the PLO? Whom does it represent?
• Which nations are opposed to a Jewish state? (Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Egypt)
• What was the intifada? Who was involved and what caused it?
• What effect did World War II have on the conflict?
• What caused the rise of militant Islam? What is its link to modern terrorism? What is Hamas?
• Briefly summarize the following leaders’ association with and role in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: Yasser Arafat, Menachem Begin, Anwar Sadat, Jimmy Carter, Yitzhak Rabin, Bill Clinton, Shimon Peres, Benjamin Netanyahu, Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon.
From: http://gtm-media.discoveryeducation.com/videos/25364/D907D620-A85D-47FF-D3445DB742C6627F.pdf