Question B Plan

Question B Plan

1st paragraph
1. in 1900 only 1/5 of Palestine was not muslim
2. Kibbutzim and Arab refugees
3. Land
  1. 'holy lands'
  2. Non-comprisable ownership of Palestine
  3. Race, Language, Culture
4. Nationalism
  1. Zionism
    1. Promise land
    2. Willing to compromise Tel Aviv
  2. Pan-Arab Nationalism
    1. Greater Syria
      1. Non-Compromisable
      2. Palestinians ethnically Syrians
    2. Anti-Zionist
      1. Outsiders
      2. Colonists
    3. 'One united Arab legion'
2nd Paragraph
1. Manadate of Palestine
  1. Personal Ambitions
    1. Greater Syria
    2. Hashemites lost Syria to France in WW1
      1. Reclaim Wanted
  2. Regional Ambitions
    1. Egypt was a regional leader
    2. Would not allow a Jewish State
2. UK
  1. UK triggered Partition Plan 1948 against Arabs
  2. Change of position to please Arabs
    1. OIL
    2. Retreat in 1948
    3. Stated a need for Arab consent of Partition
    4. Angered Zionists
      1. Terror Attacks
3. WW2
  1. Anti-Western hostility
    1. Military Equipment
    2. Arabs viewed Israel as a client of the West
3rd Paragraph
1. Superpowers
  1. US
    1. Political support
      1. US Jewish body
      2. WW2 sympathy
        Holocaust
      3. Recognition of Israel as a state
    2. Financial Support
      1. 65 million dollars 1948-51
    3. US/UK Alliance broke down
    4. 6 day war
  2. Soviet Union
    1. Originally supported Israel
    2. (collapsed 1991)
  3. OIL
2. Cold War
  1. Suez Crisis
    1. Land-locked Israel
    2. UK, France, Israel
  2. UN Resolution 1967
    1. Lack of 'Real power'
4th Paragraph
1. Sadat's Egypt
  1. Yom Kippur War
    1. Anwar Sadat initially attempted to improve relations with US & Israel
      1. Israeli rejection
        Land
    2. US broker for peace
      1. 1973 Camp David
      2. 1991 Madrid Conference
      3. 1993 Robin-Arafat hanshake
    3. Sadat attacked Israel
      1. Persuasion for peace
      2. attempt to regain lost land
      3. Arabs; Soviet Weaponry Israeli's; US airlift of arms
        Nixon delayed by 1 week -> sympathy to Egyptians
        UN Ceasefire
        Arab Oil weapon as punishment to US and Allies
        Cease-fire exposed Syria to military defeat
        Israel seized more territory of Golan Heights (Syria)
        Syria voted with other Arab nations to expel Egypt from the Arab league
        1974 1st two Egyptian-Israeli disengagement agreements
        1982, Israel returned the last segment of the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt
        1979, Sadat & Prime minister Menachem Begin signed 1st Israeli peace agreement

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