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Mr. Bedar
The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict (1948-Present)
Essential Questions:
1. How has Israeli possession of the West Bank, Gaza, and East Jerusalem since 1967 affected
both Palestinians and Israelis?
2. How have the relationships between Israel and surrounding Arab states evolved?
3. What are the major internal divisions within the Israeli society and Palestinian societies?
4. What have been (and continue to be) the major impediments to the peace process?
5. What has been the U.S. policy toward Israelis and Palestinians throughout this conflict,
and what shapes it today?
6. What are the pros and cons to the one and two-state solutions?
ID Terms:
Read each assignment carefully & identify the ID terms below in your own words. These will
serve as excellent study tools. For each ID term, make sure you are able to A) define/describe
(who/what/when/where) and B) explain why it is historically significant.
Israel-Palestine Settlements
Labor Party 1973 Yom Kippur/October War
1956 Suez Canal Crisis OPEC oil crisis
Gamel Abdul Nasser 1979 Camp David Accords (Anwar Sadat)
1967 War/ “Six Day War” Menachem Begin, “Greater Israel”; Likud
West Bank Party
Gaza 1982 Israel-Lebanon War
Golan Heights First Intifada (1987-1993)/Hamas
Sinai Hezbollah
East Jerusalem Yizhak Rabin/1993 Oslo Accords
Yasser Arafat Ariel Sharon
Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) Second Intifada (2000-2006)
“Occupied Territories”/ “Disputed Palestinian Authority
Territories”/ “Judea & Samaria”
Dear MEALA,
For HW due Wed (G)/Thurs (E), please read the following articles on ABC-CLIO and define the following terms:
Yasser Arafat