The Second Intifada

-Quartet of Middle east— recognizes Israel but also wants Palestinian to have their own state. They struggle to find a way for peace. There are different resolutions that have been suggested such as the Oslo Peace Accords in 1993, Road map for peace, Camp David Summit 2000, etc. but it all failed.

A series of stabbings has made the people of Israel restless and afraid. A statistic in the last paragraph of Ori Lewis’s report, “West Bank tensions rise after Palestinian stabbings in Israeli settlements,” stated that 25 people and a U.S. citizen have been killed. Over 148 Palestinians have been killed as well, a majority of them being victims of violent demonstrations (Lewis, 2016.)

The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) was an umbrella organization- a group of organizations dedicated to bringing the Palestinian state to independence. The PLO was comprised of numerous organizations which were a part of the resistance movement, political parties, popular organizations, and independent personalities and figures from all sectors of life. The PLO dealt with various tasks in regard to the life of the Palestinian people in their main communities and throughout the world through the establishment of several institutions in such realms as health, education and social services. As such, the PLO is more than a national

Have you ever thought about why Palestinians kill Israelites in cold blood? The media puts stories out to the public saying that Palestinians are committing acts of terrorism and have no reason to do so. That is only one side of the story, not enough people look at the palestinian side of things and why they were doing the things they are doing to Israelites. Israel has done so many terrible things to the Palestinians for years. Israel ended up building a giant wall around Palestine and put many checkpoints down saying that it was to keep the Palestinians out of Israel, but in reality, the wall and checkpoints were used to control the Palestinians.

The attack began on September 5, 1972, and involved eight Palestinian terrorists. The terrorists invaded the Olympic Village, killing two members of the Israeli team and taking an addition nine other Israelis athletes as hostages in an attempt to bargain for the release of over 230 Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails. Following the abduction, all nine athletes, along with five terrorists and a German policeman, died in a botched rescue attempt (History.com Staff, 2009). I think that this event is considered significant for a number of reasons. The first is that the Olympics were a globally televised event with an estimated 1 billion people view the games. This made the terrorist attack and the events that subsequently ensured, one of the most globally viewed terrorist events of that time period.

During the ceasefire Israel reported that 270 terrorist attacks were committed by the Palestinians against Israel. Frustrated by the attacks Israel and Minister of Defense Sharon looked for a reason to declare war and clear out the PLO from Lebanon. They got their wish when a Palestinian group led by Abu Nidal and with the assistance of Iraq against the wishes of Arafat attempted to assassinate Israel’s ambassador to the United Kingdom on June 3, 1982. The victim Shlomo Argov was seriously wounded. Israeli’s believed that all Palestinian groups were under the PLO, and even though Arafat denied PLO involvement. Israel bombarded the Sabra and Shatila refugee camps killing 200 and the PLO responded with an attack of its own on Israel. The First

Did you know that a conflict between two could go on for as long as 68 years? The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has greatly changed the lives of many Arabs and Jews. The United States, European Union, the U.N., and Russia have worked together and focused all of their attention and help to the Arab-Israeli conflict. During the many protests throughout the 1970s and the 1980s, these peace groups were able to bring in over 100,000 protesters to supports their own opinions and reflect on what they believed. One of these main groups, the Lebanon Conflict Resolution Network (LCRN), attempted to develop the training and skills to resolve the conflict with as little violence as possible. These classes of people, including BZ in the production of Promises,

Following its independence in 1948, Israel was at once attacked from the Palestine mandate of Arab nations; Lebanon, Syria, Iraq, and Egypt. As the fighting intensified, the British deployed to intervene in support of the Israeli forces, allowing Israel to gain the offense in its military operations. In 1979, Israel and conflicting Arab country of Egypt, came to a peace agreement in which was led by Egyptian President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem. However, despite the peaceful resolution between the two countries, Egypt and other Arab nations sought betrayal due to its negotiations with Israel. Author, James Gelvin states, “In the wake of the peace treaty signed between Israel and Egypt at Camp David in 1979, the Arab League expelled its largest member, accusing it of breaking ranks and betrying the Palestinian and Arab causes.” (2014). Since the Palestinian/Israel war began in 1920, the recorded casualty rate has reached 24,969 for Israeli forces and civilian population, and 91,105 Arab personnel (Total Casualties, Arab-Israeli Conflict, 2018). Despite the negotiated peace treaties involving Israel and surrounding Arab nations, the conflicts intensified that are continuing to this day. The continuing conflict between Israel and surrounding nations, has resulted in raising death toll within the

Twenty-three years later, the agreement signing that took place on the front lawn of the White House that had plans to change the ways between Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is now looked at as one of the worst actions that was a part of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This agreement is known as the Oslo Accords or “Peace Process”. Just like several other peace acts in the world, the United States played a significant but limited role in making the Oslo Peace Accords happen. Although the agreement had high potential to work, the amount of lying, accusing, trust issues, corruption, and terror for the citizens of losing their homes caused this series of agreements to fail.

The PLO used terrorist attacks to try and destroy Israel. As a result, relations between Israel and the Palestinians has never improved, and Israel never existed without experiencing terrorism. In 1972, eleven Israeli olympic athletes and coaches were killed by what is believed to be a terrorist organization. In 1987, Palestinians used civil disobedience to try and win self rule, and succeeded in winning some self rule in the Gaza Strip and West Bank. However, conflict between these two groups has existed even up to this day. Many countries are divided because of their stance on who should be allowed to rule Palestine, and many wars and protests have been spurred as a result of

1)Starting from November 1914 the ottoman empire entered the first world war with the alliance of Germany. At first it was mentioned that the empire wanted to avoid any wars and wanted to have a secure alliance with Britain. The reason being is that a leader named Enver Pasha felt that it was in the empires best interest. Knowing that France, Britain, and Russia had grew their own empires and could try and sabotage the Ottoman empire again. So enver led a secret negation with the government of Germany and made a treaty to secure an alliance. This treaty in particular promised things such as war material, financial assistance and military advisor. (chapter 6 pge148-149). The outcome of starting a jihad on November,11,1914 wasn’t as the Germany

The violence pointed back to when Palestinians protested against the Israelis from occupying the West Bank and Gaza by violence and civil unrest, which brought on a series of action called Intifada (uprising) in the middle east. The Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shook hands with the Palestinian at the White House after signing the Oslo Agreement. This agreement failed to hold and strength and the region became unsettled, which caused conflict with the Palestinian leaders. Hamas gains their popular support through well-funded social actions, which grew out of the Muslim Brotherhood. “Hamas sponsored the building of schools and hospitals, and ran other charitable and religious organizations” (Economist).

Born in Jerusalem, Israel  in 1929, Yasser Arafat became an important leader for the Palestinian people. He had dreams that one day Palestine would become its own state. Arafat was president of Palestinian Authority and later gained control of the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) by becoming chairman. The PLO is an organization founded in May 28, 1964 with the goal of liberation of palestine. Arafat was elected as chairman in 1969, three years after it was founded in the aftermath of the sixty-day war. Soon

In the second Intifada, which lasted from 2000 to 2005, Palestinians were shown regularly to be “appearing in a variety of new roles.” “Israeli journalists, in both the electronic and the printed press, conducted interviews on a regular basis with political leaders, ordinary people, and even terrorists.” (Liebes & Kampf, 2009) what happened to the reasons listed above as to why Israeli media did not shed much light on Palestinians. It went from “protecting the public from seeing death” to now interviewing so called “terrorists”. This is a drastic change from what was seen in the 1st intifada. The authors talk about their reasons as to why these changes took place. Among these reasons is the easy access to photo and video technologies, and the

The First Intifada took place on the 8th of December 1987. This protest was against Israeli’s occupation of the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem. At the crowded checkpoint Israeli truck swerved and killed four The Palestinians. Palestinians in revenge swept across the Gaza Strip, spread to the World Bank and set into motion a blaze of nationalist resistance to occupation. Intifada began unpredictably spontaneous actions such as stone-throwing were happening, but later on Intifada became more organized. Students, women, workers, agriculture started to grow food in gardens and at home to replace Israeli goods. Clinics were providing emergency help to people who were in need. Palestinians always have seen themselves as occupied, that what made them economically depend on Israel. Palestinian’s work, wages were half of what Israeli workers would get paid, their taxes were high and another thing was that they didn’t have any kind of job security, because Israeli security denied them any rights within Israel. In this case, position of Palestine is understandable, they are like any other people wanted to be free from being heavily dependent on the Israeli’s rules and resist the force that has been used against them.