Arab-Israeli Conflict: Conclusion

Agenda 2/25-2/27:

1. Students learned about the Camp David Accords.
2. Students participated in a role play and debated current issues facing the region.
3. Students took a quiz over the conflict.

HOMEWORK:

Get the Keylor book from the library - DUE - Monday 3/2

VICE News: Fallout in Gaza:

The Arab Israeli Conflict in the 1970s

Agenda 2/18-20:

1. Students read about the situation in Israel after the 1967 war.
2. Students read and discussed the ambiguity and differing interpretations of UN resolution 242.
3. Students learned about the context of the 1973 Yom Kippur war and Anwar Sadat's strategy as a means to a peace negotiation.
4. Students watched a film about the Yom Kippur War [below].
5. Students made posters of the causes, course, and consequences of the 1948, 1956, 1967, 1973 conflicts in the Middle East.

Yom Kippur War:

Arab Israeli Quiz

Students will take a quiz over the Arab Israeli conflict next Friday 2/20 Wednesday 2/25. Below are the prompts. There will be a document analysis section on the quiz as well.

Students will answer one of these prompts:

• Analyze the reasons for the flight of Palestinians refugees between 1947 and 1952.
• Assess the impact of the Sévres Protocol and its aftermath on international relations in 1956.
• Examine the aims and actions of the Palestine nationalist organizations between 1964 and 1979.

Students will also answer one of these prompts:

• Evaluate the extent to which the 1967 War can be considered a success for Israel.
• Discuss the impact of the 1967 war on the situation of the Palestinians.
• Evaluate the view that the Camp David Accords were a triumph for Egypt and a failure for Israel.

The Six Day War - 1967

Agenda 2/11-13:

1. Students were given time to wok on their book journals.
2. I gave a lecture about the rise of Palestinian nationalism including an explanation of Yasser Arafat, Fatah, The PLO, and the PFLP [below]. Students watched a short film about the Munich Olympics hostage crisis.
3. Students learned about the causes, course, and consequences of the 1967 war between Israel, Egypt and Syria.
4. Students looked at UN resolution 242, which ended the war, but left unresolved the issue of settlers and refugees.

Palestinian Nationalism:

Munich 1972:

Outcomes of the Suez Crisis

Agenda 2/9:

1. Students reviewed the causes and course of the 1956 Suez Crisis. I explained how the crisis effected relations between countries in the Middle East.
2. Students had time to continue reading the Fraser text.

HOMEWORK:

Arab-Israeli Book Project - DUE - Friday 2/13

The Suez Crisis:

Refugees and the Right to Return

Agenda 2/6:

1. Students had in class work time to read and take notes from the Fraser book
2. Students listened to a podcast about Jewish education and refugees after the 1948 war.
3. Students read about events in Palestine between the 1940s and 1950s. Here is the Graphic Novel excerpt.

HOMEWORK:

Keep reading and taking notes from Fraser

The Suez Crisis 1956

Agenda 2/4:

1. Students reviewed events regarding the Arab Israeli conflict that we've covered this far.
2. Students learned about the 1956 Suez Crisis. Read pages (Fraser - 55-72). 
3. Students also watched clips [approximately 44:15 - 54:00] from the film The 50 Years War.

HOMEWORK:

Arab Israeli Conflict book project - DUE - Friday 2/13

The 50 Years War: