Saturday, May 14, 2011

Promises

Oops! I don't know what happened. I thought I posted this on Thursday and just checked it to see if you guys are leaving comments and it looks like I actually didn't click publish. So never mind about the homework and sorry if you were confused looking for the homework. 


Here is the link to the movie if you need to review: http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1716489580121755023#


“I imagine that if I were a Palestinian of the right age, I would, at some stage, have joined one of the terror organizations.”
- Ehud Barak, Israeli general, and Prime Minister 1999 - 2001



“What cause have we to complain about their fierce hatred to us? For eight years now, they sit in their refugee camps in Gaza, and before their eyes we turn into our homestead the land and villages in which they and their forefathers have lived.”
- Moshe Dayan, Israeli general, 1956


“No people anywhere in the world would accept being expelled en masse from their own country; how can anyone require the people of Palestine to accept a punishment which nobody else would tolerate?”
- Bertrand Russell, 1970
 

Saturday, May 7, 2011

Israel Map Homework

Use these 2 interactive features to answer the following questions and complete the following tasks.

On your blank map color and label the pre-1967 boundaries between Israel and Palestine.
Label the West Bank, Gaza, and Jerusalem.
Label the Sinai Penninsula.
Label neighboring countries and bodies of water.

On the back of your blank map, draw a map of Israel/Palestine showing the borders of the two state solution (Israel and Palestine) that the U.N. Partition Plan proposed in 1947.

Answer the following questions:

  1. Why weren't the two states established in 1947?
  2. With hind site, it's easy to say that it was foolish not to accept the U.N. proposal in 1947, but what would you have done if you were in the same position as many Palestinian refugees?? 
  3. What important historical event caused an increase in Jewish immigration to Palestine?
  4. Who had control of Palestine in the years between World War I and 1948?
  5. What is the "intifada"?