ARAB – ISRAELI

CONFLICT
Agustin | Hara | Lozano | Lim | Succang
ARAB – ISRAELI CONFLICTS
Israeli War for Independence
Six Day War
Suez Crisis
Yum Kippur War
Lebanon War
Second Lebanon War
ISRAEL’S WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
AND THE PALESTINIAN NAKBAH
 ISRAELI WAR FOR INDEPENDENCE
Leaders of
British Withdrawal Attack Palestine
from Palestine on and Israel
Dayr Yasin

UN Partition ISRAELI WAR

Attack on Jewish
Plan FOR
Convoy Headed To
INDEPENDENCE
Hassah Hospital
Zionism

5 Arab Countries Israel Declared

Attacked Israel Independence
 ISRAEL’S WAR OF INDEPENDENCE
AND THE PALESTINIAN NAKBAH
• In November 1947 the United Nations (UN) voted to partition the British mandate of
Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state (see United Nations Resolution 181)
• Clashes broke out almost immediately between Jews and Arabs in Palestine.
• As British troops prepared to withdraw from Palestine, conflict continued to escalate, with
both Jewish and Arab forces committing belligerences.
• Attack on the Arab village of Dayr Yāsīn on April 9,
• Irgun Zvai Leumi and the Stern Gang forces
• spread widely and inspired both panic and retaliation. Days later,

• Arab forces attacked a Jewish convoy headed for Hadassah Hospital, killing 78.
SUEZ CRISIS
 SUEZ CRISIS

Gabel Nasser

Pan- Arabic
Nationalism
Suez Canal is a sign of
Britain’s overseas power SUEZ
Clash of
CRISIS
Interests
British
Irredentism
Nationalization
of Suez Canal
Operation Events in Ismalia
Musketeer
SIX DAY WAR
 Six Day War Gabel Nasser
Israel

Full control
over the skies
SIX
Border DAY
Preemptive Strike
Disputes WAR
ENUF Removal in Sinai

Refugee Crisis

Capturing of West Bank

and the Gaza Strip
 PACIFIC MEANS OF SETTLING
DISPUTES:
• Negotiation: Nasser along with Israel could have avoided a Six-
Day War if they had only recognized the creation of treaties,
considering that Israel’s major products were textiles, having the
need to export and second, foodstuffs.
YOM KIPPUR WAR
 Egyptian President Anwar
YOM KIPPUR WAR
Syrian leader Hafez al-Assad
Prime Minister Golda Meir of
Israel The sudden
attack of the
pressure from the most Egyptian and
educated and Syrian armies
nationalist classes opposition by into Israel during
internal religious
Jewish Yom
the unsolved minorities
Kippur holiday
territorial problem
caused by Israel
(Yom Kippur War)

USSR and Arab Oil

Embargo on US and other
Western Countries
LEBANON WAR
 Lebanon War
Menahem
Begin
Terrorists shot (Israel)
ambassabor Shlomo
Argov

LEBANON
Lobbing of Katyusha WAR
rockets at Israeli (Operation
settlements Peace for
the Galilee)

UNGA Sabra and Shatila

Resolution massacre
SECOND LEBANON WAR
 Second Lebanon War

IDF Soldiers were Hezbollah

killed and kidnapped

UNSC
LEBANON
Resolution
Lobbing of Katyusha WAR
rockets at Israeli (Operation
settlements Peace for
the Galilee)

mobilization of
reserve soldiers