POLS 157 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Yom Kippur War, Six-Day War, Arab Jews

• School: University of Vermont
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLS 157
• Professor: Peter S Henne

Document Summary

There is a tense history between the two. Modern period started in the 1800s with jews in europe facing violence: zionism: not safe in europe, pursue statehood in israeli homeland. Unrest, mob violence and revolt against the jews and british occurred. Post-wwii, nationalist movement among the jewish against the british took place: staged terrorist attacks. Britain got the un involved and divided palestine into arab and jewish sectors with. Jerusalem as an international zone (1) us president truman lobbied for its passing (a) the sense that it was a betrayal by the us on the part of the arabs. 1948 the arab-israeli war broke out over tensions over who controlled what territory: british pulled troops out and israel declared sovereignty, palestinians fled from the disaster as israel destroyed palestinian territory. Armistice took place but tensions persisted with low level fighting on going.