A brief on the lingering Israel-Palestine conflict, its origins in contemporary history and current situation.

1. MANISH PARASHAR

2. LOOKING BACK
• Ottoman Empire – British colonial rule –
UN Partition Plan 1948
• Increasingly, as national feeling
became a supreme value, Jews
would come to be seen as rootless
and cosmopolitan - Zionism
• Arab-Israeli War of 1948

3. ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICTS
• From multi-pronged conflict
with the Arab League to
localized skirmishes with
Palestinians
• Suez Crisis – Six Day War – Yom
Kippur War
• Peace treaties with Egypt,
Jordan

4. THE SHIA-SUNNI DIVIDE
• 1982 rise of Hezbollah; Lebanon divided in to two parts
• Southern Lebanon controlled by Hezbollah,
sympathized by Iran, Yemen, Syria
• Saudi Arabia, UAE, Arab League condemns Hezbollah
– 2006 Israeli-Hezbollah conflict

5. PALESTINIAN LIBERATION
ORGANIZATION
• Founded in 1964 to serve as the political force of the
Palestinians
• Initially violent, in 1993 recognized Israel and vice
versa. In turn, around 100 nations identifies PLO as a
legitimate body, including India.
• The Oslo Accords

6. VIOLENT ‘70’S
• Tel Aviv’s Lod airport
massacre, Lufthansa Flight 649
hijacking 1972
• Munich Olympic massacre
1972
• Entebbe hostage crisis 1976

7. HAMAS
• Designated as a terrorist
organization, seized
power of Gaza in 2007
• Radical, Islamist as
opposed to Leftist Fatah
of the PLO – oppose the
popular two-state theory
• Severely divided the Palestinian Authority in to Gaza
and the West Bank

8. KEY PLAYERS

9. OBSTINATE HAUNTINGS
• Status of Jerusalem
• Water rights, final locations of borders
• Hamas, Palestinian Jihad, al-Qaeda and Islamist
terrorism

10. A NEO-LIBERAL THEORY
• Milton Friedman—”I have no doubt whatsoever that a
major part of the present difficulties between the occupied
states in Palestine, the Palestinian organization and the Israeli
government, derive from the structure of Israeli economic
policies, from the socialist structure. When the occupied areas
were first taken over, the generals were very wise in treating
them in a completely laissez-faire manner, and they didn’t
have many troubles. As you started to impose in those areas
the same socialist techniques of the Israeli state, you get
increasing conflict, and those conflicts have arisen until
today.”