The History of the Middle East II
Modern Middle East: 

Topic:  The Palestinian-Israeli Conflict

 
History 252 First Page  I Syllabus and Study Guides  I   Requirements 
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Library Assignment I  Resources
 
Identifications:  Identify and discuss the importance of the following items. 
The Pale, Zionism, Theodor Herzl, First Zionist Congress, Baron Edmund de Rothschild, Kibbutz, Musa Kazin al-Husayni, Haj Amin al-Husayni, Marshal Josef Pilsudski, Peel Commission Report of 1937, David Ben Gurion, Anglo-American Commission, Morrison-Grady Plan, Moses Mendelssohn, Moses Hess, Alfred Dreyfus, First Aliyah, Raghib al-Nashashibi, Hagnah, Passfield White Paper, Azzam Pasha, United Nations Special Committee on Palestine, Yiddish, Leo Pinsker, Der Judenstaat, Chaim Weizmann, Yishuv, Jewish Agency
Essay
1.  Where were the origins of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict?  What is Zionism?  What were the origins of Zionism in the Nineteenth Century?
2.  Discus the major problems between the Palestinians and the Israelis between 1948-1973.
3.  Palestinian nationalists have been frustrated in the achievement of their aspirations by the lateness (as compared with Zionism) of the development of their movement, by the problem of their relations with Arab governments, and by the opposition of he Israelis.  Discuss this statement with reference to both the historical development of the Palestinian nationalist movement and its goals.
3.  Discuss the British White Papers from 1938 to 1939 with reference to Palestine and the Jewish Agency and its work in Palestine from 1929 to 1939.
Reading Assignment
Ochsenwald and Fisher, Chapters
 

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