Israel

A brief lecture on the history of the modern Jewish State

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Ancient Israel• Jews

forced to leave ancient Israel– Romans

destroyed Jewish Temple

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• Jews dispersed throughout the Roman Empire– Diaspora

Israel - 1948• U.N. Partition Plan

for British Palestine

• Two States– Israel

– Arab State

– International city of Jerusalem

http://www.israel.org/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0dt70

Israel - 1949• Israel after independence

• Much larger Israel

• No Arab State

• Egypt gets Gaza

• Jordan gets West Bank

• Control of Jerusalem split with Jordanhttp://www.israel.org/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0dsp0

Israel – pre 1967 War

• Jordan and Egypt no more than 22 miles from every major Israeli city

• Less than from KHS to downtown Houston

http://www.israel.org/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0dt40

Israel – Six Day War• Egypt, Syria, &

Jordan planned a sneak attack

• Israel found out• Pre-dawn

preemptive air strikes

• Wiped out the Arab air forces

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Israel - 1967• Israel after the Six Day

War• Israel occupies

– West Bank– Gaza Strip– Golan Heights– All of Jerusalem– Sinai Peninsula

• Controls Palestinian refugee camps

http://www.israel.org/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0dsp0

1973 Yom Kippur War• Egypt &

Syria launch surprise attack

• Take care of their Air Force

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Israel - 1982

• Peace between Egypt and Israel

• Camp David Peace brokered by Carter

• Return of the Sinai to Egypt

http://www.israel.org/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0dt50

Israel - 1993• Map of Israel

according to Israel

• West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Golan Heights part of Israel

• Jerusalem capital of Israel

http://www.israel.org/mfa/go.asp?MFAH0dsw0

Israel - Today• Internationally

recognized Israel• West Bank, Gaza

Strip, and Golan Heights are occupied lands

• Tel Aviv capital of Israel

http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/is.html