INTL 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Camp David Accords, Yasser Arafat, Palestine Liberation Organization
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1917: balfour declaration aspirations of establishing jewish state (zionist project) in land of palestine were brought together in written document for the first time. 1947: un partition of palestine, jerusalem as international city. 1967: six-day war: israeli victory, west bank and jerusalem taken from palestinian- 1978: camp david accords sadat and begin. West bank and start palestinian authority limited self-autonomy, 2003: road map to peace the quartet. Some withdrawal from territories after oslo accords. Resistance and intifada (from outside of israel) Umbrella organization that brought together different palestinian factions . Internal struggles looked at how to get back palestine from various ideological perspectives. Figure out ways of returning back to israel. Internal struggles in 2000s abbas of fatah as president of palestinian authority. Israel and occupied territories: lots of war and conflict with neighboring countries. Six day war: took over all of jerusalem, west bank (jordan), gaza, sinai. Intifada against israel for occupation of gaza and west bank.
