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Word of the day:

Warm Up: What was the most difficult thing you went through? Why was it difficult? How did you make it through?. Word of the day: Liberation (n. ) the act or process of freeing someone or something from another's control :. Current Events. Yasser Arafat Border lines…sound familiar?

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  1. Warm Up:What was the most difficult thing you went through? Why was it difficult? How did you make it through? Word of the day: Liberation (n. ) the act or process of freeing someone or something from another's control :

  2. Current Events • Yasser Arafat • Border lines…sound familiar? • Dead Sea

  3. Agenda • Warm Up • Current Events • Notes • Reading: Problems since the creation of Israel • Solve the Problem!

  4. Introduction: a complex problem

  5. Why do Palestinians claim Israel? • Continuous residence in the land

  6. Why do Israelis claim Israel? Lived in kingdom until Roman Empire destroyed it Zionism: political belief that there should be a Jewish homeland Reaction to Anti-Semitism

  7. How were the British involved? 1. Mandated (given) the land after WWI 2. Hussein-McMahon: promised land to the Arabs 3. Balfour Declaration: promised land to the Israelis 4. Sykes-Picot Agreement: promised control with France

  8. How is the United Nations involved? • After WWII, the British give up on trying to fairly divide the land • Many Jews immigrated there due to Anti-Semitism and Zionism • UN creates two states in 1947: one Arab and one Jewish • Jewish accept and Palestinians reject

  9. How was Israel created? • 1948 fought a war against the Palestinians (who had Arab support) and won • Palestinians flee into neighboring countries; some remain as citizens of Israel • Palestinian land is now the West Bank and Gaza strip

  10. Reading: Page 955-957 in textbook with a partner. Answer the questions in your notebook.

  11. You are either Israel, Palestine or the US • Read your positions as well as the other two • Discuss with your delegates and reference your notes from the day • Create a proposal for the problem

  12. Conflict Zone

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