•Using specific examples from your own experiences write a response to the following situation:

•What would you do if your brother, sister, or other family member (that use to share the bedroom with you) came into the room later today and said that you have to make room for them and their stuff or find another place to sleep? Who should get the room? Suppose you got pressured? How could you solve the problem peaceably?”

Israel-Palestinian Conflict

Importance of Region

•Historic claims to land

•Holy sites for Islam and Jewish religions

Zionism•Movement for establishing a Jewish

State

•Jews had long history of persecution

Balfour Declaration 1917

•British pledge to help Jews form homeland

•British also supported independent Arab states

Birth of Israel•Holocaust-created a quest for Jewish

homeland

•Hope for rebuilding lives

Seed of Conflict•Arabs see this as a threat to their

authority

•Believe it will create conflict

Israel 1948

•Becomes a state recognized by U.S. and Russia

•Arabs do not recognize the new state

Conflict

PLO

•Palestine Liberation Organization

•Movement for a Palestine state

•Leader:Yasser Arafat