Question B Plan

Question B Plan

1. 1st paragraph

   • in 1900 only 1/5 of Palestine was not muslim
   • Kibbutzim and Arab refugees
   • Land
     • 'holy lands'
     • Non-comprisable ownership of Palestine
     • Race, Language, Culture
   • Nationalism
     • Zionism
       • Promise land
       • Willing to compromise Tel Aviv
     • Pan-Arab Nationalism
       • Greater Syria
         • Non-Compromisable
         • Palestinians ethnically Syrians
       • Anti-Zionist
         • Outsiders
         • Colonists
       • 'One united Arab legion'

2. 2nd Paragraph

   • Manadate of Palestine
     • Personal Ambitions
       • Greater Syria
       • Hashemites lost Syria to France in WW1
         • Reclaim Wanted
     • Regional Ambitions
       • Egypt was a regional leader
       • Would not allow a Jewish State
   • UK
     • UK triggered Partition Plan 1948 against Arabs
     • Change of position to please Arabs
       • OIL
       • Retreat in 1948
       • Stated a need for Arab consent of Partition
       • Angered Zionists
         • Terror Attacks
   • WW2
     • Anti-Western hostility
       • Military Equipment
       • Arabs viewed Israel as a client of the West

3. 3rd Paragraph

   • Superpowers
     • US
       • Political support
         • US Jewish body
         • WW2 sympathy
           • Holocaust
         • Recognition of Israel as a state
       • Financial Support
         • 65 million dollars 1948-51
       • US/UK Alliance broke down
       • 6 day war
     • Soviet Union
       • Originally supported Israel
       • (collapsed 1991)
     • OIL
   • Cold War
     • Suez Crisis
       • Land-locked Israel
       • UK, France, Israel
     • UN Resolution 1967
       • Lack of 'Real power'

4. 4th Paragraph

   • Sadat's Egypt
     • Yom Kippur War
       • Anwar Sadat initially attempted to improve relations with US & Israel
         • Israeli rejection
           • Land
       • US broker for peace
         • 1973 Camp David
         • 1991 Madrid Conference
         • 1993 Robin-Arafat hanshake
       • Sadat attacked Israel
         • Persuasion for peace
         • attempt to regain lost land
         • 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