The Israel Palestine Conflict
Slide 1:- THE ISRAEL PALESTINE CONFLICT
Slide2:- PALESTINE 1850’S
Slide 3:- 1880’S EUROPE
Anti-Semitism
Pogrom
Over 200,000 Jews were murdered in state organise Russian pogroms.
Jewish figures came to a conclusion that without a state of their own Jews Would always be persecuted.
Slide 4:- MIGRATION
Theodor Herzl was the founder of modern Zionism. He advocated mass Jewish immigration to Palestine.
From 1882 onwards mostly eastern European Jews seeking a new life began arriving in Palestine.
The first arrivals quite often mixed with the Palestinians, after 1900 they increasingly self-segregated.
Around 60,000 arrived between 1882 and 1914.
Slide 5:- THE BALFOUR DECLARATION
British to get the support of the Jews in the WW1 have declared the acceptance of creating the Jews state in the Palestine without consulting with the existing Palestine’s
Slide 6:- BRITISH-PALESTINE
In 1917 Britain, at the height of World War One, agreed for its own imperial reasons agreed to sponsor the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine
Palestinians were not consulted
After Britain took control of Palestine in 1918 a whole new wave of Zionist immigration began.
These new immigrants sought to have as little to do as possible with the Palestinian population – boycotting their produce, culture and economy.
Instead these immigrants with British support set up their own exclusive institutions, used their own language and generally ignored the fact that another people was already living in Palestine * A key element of their settlement was the idea of “the conquest of labour” whereby they would “redeem the land” by establishing modern farming communities. In this way they hoped to become “a light unto the nations.”
Violence
Palestinians demanded representative self-government but Britain ignored their calls.
Tensions between the Palestinians and the new immigrants rose throughout the 1920s and 30s as
Slide2:- PALESTINE 1850’S
Slide 3:- 1880’S EUROPE
Anti-Semitism
Pogrom
Over 200,000 Jews were murdered in state organise Russian pogroms.
Jewish figures came to a conclusion that without a state of their own Jews Would always be persecuted.
Slide 4:- MIGRATION
Theodor Herzl was the founder of modern Zionism. He advocated mass Jewish immigration to Palestine.
From 1882 onwards mostly eastern European Jews seeking a new life began arriving in Palestine.
The first arrivals quite often mixed with the Palestinians, after 1900 they increasingly self-segregated.
Around 60,000 arrived between 1882 and 1914.
Slide 5:- THE BALFOUR DECLARATION
British to get the support of the Jews in the WW1 have declared the acceptance of creating the Jews state in the Palestine without consulting with the existing Palestine’s
Slide 6:- BRITISH-PALESTINE
In 1917 Britain, at the height of World War One, agreed for its own imperial reasons agreed to sponsor the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine
Palestinians were not consulted
After Britain took control of Palestine in 1918 a whole new wave of Zionist immigration began.
These new immigrants sought to have as little to do as possible with the Palestinian population – boycotting their produce, culture and economy.
Instead these immigrants with British support set up their own exclusive institutions, used their own language and generally ignored the fact that another people was already living in Palestine * A key element of their settlement was the idea of “the conquest of labour” whereby they would “redeem the land” by establishing modern farming communities. In this way they hoped to become “a light unto the nations.”
Violence
Palestinians demanded representative self-government but Britain ignored their calls.
Tensions between the Palestinians and the new immigrants rose throughout the 1920s and 30s as