1. Write on for Israel
Israel Advocacy Training
Week 1

2. Historical Background
Antiquity
Exile
Modern Zionism
1947-1949
The Problem of Refugees

3. Map of
first
kingdoms

4. Years of Diaspora
313 - Byzantine Rule
636 - Arabian Rule
1099 - Crusader Rule
1291 - Mamluk Rule
1517 - Ottoman Rule
1918 - British Rule

5. Map of
Diaspora
age

6. The Zionist movement
The Zionist Idea
Herzl
The Five Aliyot
British Mandate
Arab-Jewish Conflict

7. Arab-Jewish Conflict
Arab Nationalism
The Mufti
Strikes and “intifada”s

8. Underground Armies
Hagana - Palmach
(Havlaga policy)
Etzel - Irgun Tzevai
Leumi
Lechi - Luchamei Cheirut
Yisrael

9. Unscop - 1947
Testimony
Displaced Person Camps
Exodus

10. partition Plan
Two State Solution

11. War of Independence
Civil War
Arab Invasion

12. Arab Invasion

13. The State of Israel

14. Benny Morris- The New Historians
228 Abandoned Arab Villages
The Birth of the Palestinian
Refugee Problem, 1947-1949
41 - Expelled
(1988)
The Birth of the Palestinian 90 - Fled
Refugee Problem Revisited
(2004)
46 - Unknown

15. Deir Yassin

16. Arab Refugees

17. Jewish Refugees

18. Declaration of Independence (May 14, 1948)
• “We appeal - in the very midst of the
onslaught launched against us now for
months - to the Arab inhabitants of the
State of Israel to preserve peace and
participate in the upbuilding of the State
on the basis of full and equal citizenship
and due representation in all its provisional
and permanent institutions.
• “We extend our hand to all neighbouring
states and their peoples in an offer of
peace and good neighbourliness, and
appeal to them to establish bonds of
cooperation and mutual help with the
sovereign Jewish people settled in its own
land. The State of Israel is prepared to do its
share in a common effort for the
advancement of the entire Middle East. “
- Source: Declaration of Independence of The State of Israel, paragraph 16,17 www.mfa.gov.il

19. May 15, 1948: Arab Response
“Our position is clear, and
has been proclaimed on
every occasion. It is never
to allow the creation of a
Jewish State in Palestine,
and to exclude partition.”
Prime Minister of Transjordan,
Tawfiq Abu al-Huda, as quoted in
UN Progress Report on Palestine

20. Refugees
UN definition:
“[A person who] owing to a well-founded fear of being
persecuted . . . is outside the country of his nationality”
Causes:
• War, famine, displacement, escaping conflict
20th Century Refugees:
• Over 70 million refugees in post-WWII Europe

21. Palestinian Refugees
UNRWA (Not UNHCR):
United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees
in the Near East (founded in 1949)
Palestinian Refugee Definition:
Persons whose normal place of residence was Palestine between
June 1946 and May 1948, who lost both their homes and means
of livelihood as a result of the 1948 Arab-Israeli conflict
[including] the descendants of persons who became refugees in
1948.
Number of Palestinian refugees:
1950: 914,000
2005: over 4.2 million

22. The Forgotten Refugees

23. Palestinian-Arab Refugees Used as Pawns
“Since 1948 Arab leaders have
approached the Palestine
problem in an irresponsible
manner…. They have used the
Palestinian people for selfish
political purposes. This is
ridiculous and, I could
say, criminal.”
King Hussein of Jordan,
Daily Star (Beirut), Jan. 19, 1960

24. Camp David, July 2000

25. Camp
David
Proposal
Source: Ross, Dennis. The Missing
Peace

26. World Public Opinion Poll
“As was the case a
year ago, Iran and
Israel received the
most negative
ratings…”
worldpublicopinion.org

27. Responses to reading at OSU
“I didn't know about the way Israel
constructed the check points and the
roads. Its like they are herding the
Palestinians like animals... I
absolutely could not believe how evil
these people were.”
“I know that the relationship between
the US and Israel will never change,
but I can't believe that our
Government, present and past, would
allow and support this kind of
Government.”
“Palestinians people lost everything
they had before and Israel took a land
which is not belonging to them and
the Israeli government said they want
to live in peace which I think untrue”

28. Our Guiding Question
Why is anti-Israel sentiment on the rise on campuses
and in various communities?

34. The Elephant
The Elephant Exercise:
Context
Zooming in
Zooming out
The Arab-Israeli Conflict?

35. Partial Truth

36. Essential Context
www.intelligence.org.il (3/29/2002)

37. Our Guiding Question
Why is anti-Israel sentiment on the rise on
campuses and in various communities?
Many academics, journalists and community
leaders have provided only a partial picture
of complex issues.