Arab-Israeli Conflict - created from Mind Map

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1967:6 day war

Suez Crisis

"War of Independance" 1948 war that resulted of the creation of the state of Israel

UNSCOP: United Nations Commitee on Palestine

the Cold War

THE UN

UN's reaction

what started it?

NOTHING! kicked off egyption land where they had been stationed since the Suez Crisis in '56

the Suez crisis in 1956 was the major cause of the war.

Border clashes between Israel and bordeing countries like Syria leads Israel to threaten Millitary action.

Suez Crisis

Egyptian President Nasser nationalises the Suez Cannal

international waters used for trade

UNITED NATIONS

European countries use the canal as quick access to the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Asia.<br><br><ul><li>were not happy :(</li></ul>

essentially land locks Israel... not good when the countries surrounding it are opposed to its existance

The canal was nationalised to fund a dam that would economically benifit Egypt

France, England and Israel plan OPERATION MUSKATEER

The plan is to march Israeli troops to the Suez Canal. Then England and France will act as if they don't know whats happening and offer an ultimatum. The Ultimatum is that both armies will move back 5 miles and negotiations will start between the countries. England, France and Israel knew that Egpyt wouldn't accept the ultimatum and their subsequent retaliation resulted in Engalnd and France legally invading Egypt to stop the threat of war.

All other countries cut funding for the dam leaving a half built dam

Aswen Dam on the Nile

vetos from both England and France ensured that the security council couldn't do anything.

instead it was sent to the general assembly

The first ever peace keeping force was created to supervise the removal of foreign troops from the country.

troops stayed on to act as a buffer between Egypt and Israel untill 1967

the Egyptian/ Syrian mutual defense pact causes Nasser to expel the UN peace keeping force.

Isreal attacks and takes out the Egyptian air force

born from the Zionist movement. Pro-Zionist feelings were strong in the Allied countries after the Holocaust

The Jewish people felt that Palestine was their home as they had lived there in biblical times.

Palestine had been an English mandate since World War One. In May 1948, the British withdrew from Palestine and with the support of the USA, Zionists created the state of Israel.

15/5/1948 English trusteeship of Palestine ends

the Zionist movement gained momentum after WWII

Palestinians that had lived there just as long are opposed to the creation of a Jewish state

Created to solve the problems between Zionists and Palestinians

August 1947, Commitee suggested a Partition Plan

Zionists welcomed UNSCOP but Arabs refused to talk to them

UN's reaction

guilt over the holocaust results in illegal settlements Palestine are overlooked

Jewish (1/3 of population) gets 56% of land

Jeruselam would be international land

They also reccomended that a Arab state and a Israeli state be made under a central power for situations like national defense

people think that this reaction influenced the final partition statistics

America supported Israel

USSR supported the Arab countries

both supplied large amounts of weapons to the area

Created after WWII

Critical evaluation of the effectiveness of the United Nations in solving Disputes

International Court of Justice

THE RWANDAN GENOCIDE

may only try states but not individuals

really has no power to enforce the punishments they decide

Definition of genocide: " Any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy in whole or in part, a national, ethical or religious group as such: killing member of the group ; causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Creating living conditions of the group with the intent to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; Imposing measures to prevent births within the groups; Forcibly transferring measures to prevent births within the group; Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group----- Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, Article 2 Geneva Convention

Hutus

Tutsis

1994, the Hutu's attack the Tutsis on mass killing thousands and starting the Genocide

originally considered superior to the Hutus and the Twas by the Belgians

pre 1994 Tutsi-Hate Propaganda was being spread by Hutus in schools, newspapers and over the radio

April 6th 1994 - Hutu President is killed in plane crash.

Violence erupts and prepared Hutu militants begin the genocide.

Violence lead to the UN to remove peace keeping troops and foreign civilians from Rwanda. Leaving the Tutsis defensless

the majority Hutus took power in 1959 and continued with the European racial classification but made it so the Tutsi were discriminated against