Summary of 3-7

3. The British withdrew itself from help making a Jewish state in Palestine, because they were unable to make a political solution that would satisfy both Jews and Arabs, and could not prevent the war that broke out among the two. The British handed over the job to the U.N. They decided to partition the territory. The Jews needed somewhere to stay, because there were Holocaust survivor's without homes. The Jews were given more land in Palestine than the Palestinians. The Arabs left, because they were forced or were afraid. Many wars broke out during the time of Jews taking over Palestinian land.

4. The Six day war changed the borders of the Middle East, changed military and political perceptions, and it brought the United States into the mix as a permanent factor in the region. The land of Israel was surrounded by Arab states that were threatening to push Israel into the sea. A miscommunication was sent to Arab that the Isralies were going to attack and so Arabs sent threats like; closing the Gulf of Aqaba to shipping, cutting off Israel from its primary oil supplies. Israel had to prove that they did everything to prevent war and this war was the last resort. The Israeli army had conquered the sites holiest to Judaism. The war changed Israel. Arabs broke off from the U.S, because they thought the U.S was on the Israeli side.

5. Egypt and Syria attacked Israel in the Yom Kippur war. The Palestinians had really nothing to do with that war. They were only trying to regain their land that was taken from them. Israel was overconfident and caught by surprise by the war. They still won, but were weak in the beginning. Egypt and Syria got into an argument and the U.S thought it would be a good opportunity for them. The Palestinian movement was created to have a Palestinian state in the occupied land, which left behind the idea to kick out Israel. In the West Bank and Gaza war broke out, because the Palestinians didn't want the Israeli's there(intifada). Arabs and Israelis said there would be no more blood shed. Palestinians thought that Egypt betrayed them, and Egypt got back Sinai, and didn't really negociate for Palestine.

6. Israel and Palestine signed the Oslo agreement(self-government) that was meant to bring peace, but didnt. It ended up dying and started a whole new intifada. Palestinians were very angry and felt violated. A traffic accidence where Israel killed Palestinians started the whole dispute. The intifada went on for years and some of Israeli's thought they should end it, because it would hurt them economically and morally.

7. Palestinians couldn't see where anything benefited them. Erafatt's method and style of governing also contributed to the failure of the process and he also violated some of the terms in the Oslo agreement like; by importing arms, by having much bigger security forces than they were entitled to, and by not laying the foundations for a democratic regime that respects human rights. At another agreement process Erafatt should have said look here's what we will accept. He neither had the courage, the foresight,or the intelligence to do those. They can't understand why Jews suddenly appeared in Palestine and started to take it over. They can't understand why they must agree to the Jews' taking over 80 percent of their land and they only get 20. The two groups failed to try to agree and didn't put their past behind them. The Israeli's were not forced to sit down and decide anything, which caused them to not want to agree on anything, which over time made them not want to give up the terriotory they occupied.