POLITSC 2300 Lecture 27: Arab-Israeli Dispute
12 Dec 2016
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Crushing defeat for arabs as israel decimates enemies in surprise attack. Israel quadruples in size (golan, gaza, wb, &sinai) Rise of plo and yasser arafat as face of palestinians. The plo mounted resistance campaigns from bases in neighboring. This ultimately fueled civil wars and instability in both states, and it met with little success. Plo was kicked out of both states and sent to distant tunisia. With plo removed, grassroots uprisings in palestinian territories. Successes - peace treaty with jordan, oslo accords with. Failures - ultimately fell apart with 2nd intifada in 2000. Focus on anarchy and uncertainty, which leads states to maximize security/power. Liberals accept anarchic world, but focus on set of mechanisms that mitigate its effects. Ideas/identities matter - actors construct their own conflicts (wendt. They may be worried about their domestic survival, thus: Consider realist, liberal, constructivists, and domestic reasons why the.
