POLI 347 Lecture 6: Lecture 6.docx

• School: McGill University
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLI 347
• Professor: Julie Norman

Document Summary

Suez (1956), 1967, 1973: change in terminology (israelis now, main conflict between arab states and israel (not palestinians) Israel and lebanon: through us diplomacy ralph bunche. New parties wouldn"t go through face to face negotiations so he went back and forth. Tit for tat policy between different states. Everyone saw the other as the aggressor and themselves as just responding: ambiguity of the territorial area and who they belonged to, conditions for negotiations. They didn"t want to meet with each other. Arab states starting point was they"re not going to recognize israel if. Israel starting point was recognition of the israeli state there isn"t a return to the 1947 partition plan: issues. Jerusalem kind of split between jordan and israel: un tries to make it international but they"re ignored. Suez: always closed to israel, un passes a resolution that the suez is an international waterway but they"re ignored. 1967 causes confusion when israel expands its territories.