Write on for Israel

Israel Advocacy TrainingWeek 1

Historical Background

Antiquity

Exile

Modern Zionism

1947-1949

The Problem of Refugees

Map of first

kingdoms

Years of Diaspora

313 - Byzantine Rule

636 - Arabian Rule

1099 - Crusader Rule

1291 - Mamluk Rule

1517 - Ottoman Rule

1918 - British Rule

Map of Diaspora

age

The Zionist movement

The Zionist Idea

Herzl

The Five Aliyot

British Mandate

Arab-Jewish Conflict

Arab-Jewish Conflict

Arab Nationalism

The Mufti

Strikes and “intifada”s

Underground Armies

Hagana - Palmach (Havlaga policy)

Etzel - Irgun Tzevai Leumi

Lechi - Luchamei Cheirut Yisrael

Unscop - 1947

Testimony

Displaced Person Camps

Exodus

partition PlanTwo State Solution

War of Independence

Civil War

Arab Invasion

Arab Invasion

The State of Israel

Benny Morris- The New Historians

The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, 1947-1949 (1988)

The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited (2004)

228 Abandoned Arab Villages

41 - Expelled

90 - Fled

46 - Unknown

Deir Yassin

Arab Refugees

Jewish Refugees

Declaration of Independence (May 14, 1948)

• “We appeal - in the very midst of the onslaught launched against us now for months - to the Arab inhabitants of the State of Israel to preserve peace and participate in the upbuilding of the State on the basis of full and equal citizenship and due representation in all its provisional and permanent institutions.

• “We extend our hand to all neighbouring states and their peoples in an offer of peace and good neighbourliness, and appeal to them to establish bonds of cooperation and mutual help with the sovereign Jewish people settled in its own land. The State of Israel is prepared to do its share in a common effort for the advancement of the entire Middle East. “

- Source: Declaration of Independence of The State of Israel, paragraph 16,17 www.mfa.gov.il

May 15, 1948: Arab Response

“Our position is clear, and has been proclaimed on every occasion. It is never to allow the creation of a Jewish State in Palestine, and to exclude partition.”

Prime Minister of Transjordan, Tawfiq Abu al-Huda, as quoted in UN Progress Report on Palestine

UN definition:

“[A person who] owing to a well-founded fear of being persecuted . . . is outside the country of his nationality”

Causes:

• War, famine, displacement, escaping conflict

20th Century Refugees:

• Over 70 million refugees in post-WWII Europe

Refugees

Palestinian Refugees

UNRWA (Not UNHCR):United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (founded in 1949)

Palestinian Refugee Definition:Persons whose normal place of residence was Palestine between June 1946 and May 1948, who lost both their homes and means of livelihood as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict [including] the descendants of persons who became refugees in 1948.

Number of Palestinian refugees:1950: 914,0002005: over 4.2 million

The Forgotten Refugees

Palestinian-Arab Refugees Used as Pawns

“Since 1948 Arab leaders have approached the Palestine problem in an irresponsible manner…. They have used the Palestinian people for selfish political purposes. This is ridiculous and, I could say, criminal.”

King Hussein of Jordan,

Daily Star (Beirut), Jan. 19, 1960

Camp David, July 2000

Camp David

Proposal

Source: Ross, Dennis. The Missing Peace

World Public Opinion Poll“As was the case a year ago, Iran and Israel received the

most negative ratings…”

worldpublicopinion.org

Responses to reading at OSU

“I didn't know about the way Israel constructed the check points and the roads. Its like they are herding the Palestinians like animals... I absolutely could not believe how evil these people were.”

“I know that the relationship between the US and Israel will never change, but I can't believe that our Government, present and past, would allow and support this kind of Government.”

“Palestinians people lost everything they had before and Israel took a land which is not belonging to them and the Israeli government said they want to live in peace which I think untrue”

Our Guiding QuestionWhy is anti-Israel sentiment on the rise on campuses

and in various communities?

The Elephant

The Elephant Exercise:

Context

Zooming in

Zooming out

The Arab-Israeli Conflict?

Partial Truth

Essential Context

www.intelligence.org.il (3/29/2002)

Our Guiding Question

Why is anti-Israel sentiment on the rise on campuses and in various communities?

Many academics, journalists and community leaders have provided only a partial picture

of complex issues.