Thursday, September 18, 2014

Conflict In The Middle East


  1. Why and with what results did the Arabs and Israelis fight the wars of 1967 and 1973?
  2. "Terrorism and violence rather than peaceful diplomacy." How far would you agree with this view of the activities of the PLO in the Middle East in the period 1973 to 1995?
  3. How successful was President Nasser as leader of Egypt?
  4. "The USA and the USSR intervened in the Middle East in the period 1956 to 1979 purely to preserve political and economic stability in the region." How valid do you think this view is?
  5. Assess the reasons why the Six-Day War of 1967 was followed by the Yom Kippur War only three years later. 
  6. To what extent have the violent actions of some Palestinians been the main obstacle to the establishment of a Palestinian state? 

20 comments:

  1. William Reis
    Ms.Noce
    IB History
    9/18/14


    1.Why and with what results did the Arabs and Israelis fight the wars of 1967 and 1973?
    The war of 1967 was called “THE SIX-DAYS WAR”. The war started because at the end of the war in 1949. Araba refused to sign a peace treaty and they were neglecting the fact that Israel wanted Arab to give Israel its attention. Years later in 1967 Arab was allied with Iraq, Syria and Egypt in which their goal was to eliminate Israel. The results of the war were very unexpected because Israel actually attacked first when they found out they were gonna be attacked by the countries mentioned above. Israel devastated the Egyptian air force with its powerful air strikes and everything was over in just less than a week! Six years later another war was being developed, it was almost a payback for the Israel country. It all Started on october 6 1973 when opposing forces attacked during an Jewish religious festival because they thought if they attacked at that time that Israel would be off guard, an unexpected attack almost.

    2."Terrorism and violence rather than peaceful diplomacy." How far would you agree with this view of the activities of the PLO in the Middle East in the period 1973 to 1995?
    From my point of view i would not really agree with this with this perspective because if you think about it, in Middle East, peace doesn’t exist since the 1945s. Countries in the Middle East are always in conflicts or there’s terrorism going around (ISIS!!!!!!) and it never ends! I think the person who created this quote doesn’t really have any hope with the Middle East because he can’t picture the Middle East in total peace.

    3.How successful was President Nasser as leader of Egypt?
    President/Leader or called “the new ruler of Egypt” was someone who was in favor unity, power and independence from everything! he wanted better living condition for Egyptians. Almost every act he did managed to get outside powers angry. Nasser managed to create a group of fighters, they were known as “fedayeen” and their goal was to stop any killings that occurred in Israel. He also managed to make the British to remove their troops at Suez canal, British wanted to renew the contract but Nasser denied it. In addition to that, he signed a contract with Russians to buy tons of military equipment, including fighters, tanks, bombers also Egyptian army was trained by Russians experts.

    4. "The USA and the USSR intervened in the Middle East in the period 1956 to 1979 purely to preserve political and economic stability in the region." How valid do you think this view is?
    After reading this both small articles on the Suez War of 1956 and the Egyptian-Israeli peace I don't think with both of these countries was to preserve political and economic stability in the region because in 1956 the Americans didn't really agree with what the Egyptians were doing which was to get a deal with military equipment with Czechoslovakia. The U.S. almost wanted tell Nasser what to do. Another thing was that America was always pressing the Egyptians for an answer, USA played an important role when it came to dealing.

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  2. 5.Assess the reasons why the Six-Day War of 1967 was followed by the Yom Kippur War only three years later.
    The Yom Kippur War was followed three years later because there was a lot of pressure being brought to the to the Arabs after the devastating loss against Israel, pressure being brought by the PLO, especially an embarrassment for the leader of Arab, Nasser because he promised things to the Egyptians. Russians were supposed to help Nasser but to enrich their relationship, Russian began to aid Egypt and Syria with modern day weapons and that’s when the Yom Kippur War started.

    6. To what extent have the violent actions of some Palestinians been the main obstacle to the establishment of a Palestinian state?
    I think some of the violent actiong of some Palestinians has been a difficulty to establish a Palestinian because Countries can never get along with each other! They can never come up with a fair agreement for both sides. Also religion plays an extremelly important role because One side doesn’t accept, all three religion, Islam, Christians and Judaism Don’t get along with each other. These religions never got along and that’s being since a very long times, fighting over lands, acts or certain laws. With this being said is when a violent action is launched.


    WORK CITED:

    Chapter 11 Conflict in the Middle East.

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  3. Victor Harris
    I.B History
    9-21-14
    Ms.Noce


    1.Why and with what results did the Arabs and Israelis fight the wars of 1967 and 1973?
    -This started because during the period of 1948-9, the Arab state didn't want to form a treaty. This lead to problems in 1967 to destroy Israel, with the leaders Iraq, Syria and Egypt. Surprisingly Israel had extreme success which was embarrassingly to the Arab because they needed extra help. Russians started to supply the Arabs with "modern weapons" and there next face off would be in 1973! Feeling humiliation of course the Arab was going to come back. The Egyptian and Syrain attacked on the feast of Yom Kippur which was a jewish feast so nobody wouldn't even think of an attack, but were wrong. Useing modern weapons they captured all that was lost in 1967. In conclusion the USSR and USA came in to bring a peace settlement to ceasefire.


    2."Terrorism and violence rather than peaceful diplomacy." How far would you agree with this view of the activities of the PLO in the Middle East in the period 1973 to 1995?
    -I would agree with this statement because in the Middle East there is no PEACE, at all. The PLO would do terrorist attacks for attention, in 1970 they hijacked airliners and flew them to Amman were they blow up. Even now there are still terrorist groups who do these kind of tragic stuff because they don't believe in what do. So I agree follow to this statement.

    3.How successful was President Nasser as leader of Egypt?
    -Nasser wanted Unity and independence for Egypt. He formed guerrilla fighters to "sabotage and murder" in Israel. He signed a arms deal with the Czechoslovakia, to get Russian fighters, bombers and to get tanks. Russian troops trained the Egyptian army. So for the Egyptian he did very well, but to the British, Americans and French they didn't agree.

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  4. 4."The USA and the USSR intervened in the Middle East in the period 1956 to 1979 purely to preserve political and economic stability in the region." How valid do you think this view is?
    -I think this is vaild because the USA wasn't agreeing with the actions that were getting settle in the Middle East, Egypt I will say mostly because every time they would do something that they thought was right would anger the Americans and the USSR as well.
    You can say that the USA wanted to make the final say in everything, so when enough was enough they did.

    5.Assess the reasons why the Six-Day War of 1967 was followed by the Yom Kippur War only three years later.
    -The reason why the six day war followed after the Yom Kippur war because of conflicts that started to come out. Well for one after the war the Arab were very humiliated on the victory of Israel so of course they would try to come back, by why so soon? Pressure by the PLO kept arising to see more action. The PLO were a terrorist organization that hijacked planes and murder Israeli people at the 1972 Munich Olympics. Lastly this is when Russia started to give support and help with weapons to attack Israel once more.

    6.To what extent have the violent actions of some Palestinians been the main obstacle to the establishment of a Palestinian state?
    -The violent actions of the Palestinians played vital role for an establishment of the state and peace overall. Acts of murdering people,hijacking planes and seeking attention by doing these things wouldn't bring peace.The actions they did were heavily affected and religion did play a role as well. In the Middle East there is nothing but violence, which means no one is getting along.

    Work Citied:
    Chapter 11 packet

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  5. 1. Why and with what results did the Arabs and Israelis fight the wars of 1967 and 1973?
    - Arabs has desires to achieve political and economic unity throughout the Arab states. They wanted to end foreign intervention in their country and they planned to achieve this by winning the Six-Day war against the Israelis. Sadly for the Arabs the results of the war were the loss for the Arabs. It was said that the Israelis won the Six-Day war with a breeze. They won so easily because they fought desperately and already had military training when they fought with the British in the Second World War.
    2. “Terrorism and violence rather than peaceful diplomacy.” How far would you agree with this view of activities of the PLO in the Middle East in the period 1973 to 1995?
    - I couldn’t completely agree or disagree with this perspective. My reason for that being people could seek peaceful diplomacy in the Middle East but I don’t believe everyone would have that same idea, goal or type of mindset. For a more common and relevant example I could talk about the ISIS but I wont. But from the looks of it, groups formed in the Middle East would rather prefer terrorism and violence rather than peaceful diplomacy. For another quick example, the Arabs refused to sign the peace treaty between them and Israel for the Six-Day war thus proving groups/rebels in the Middle East would prefer violence and terrorism rather than peaceful diplomacy.
    3. How successful was President Nasser as leader of Egypt?
    - Nasser the leader of Egypt had goals of unity and firm leadership for Egypt. Which is why after the Second World War when the British stayed and occupied Egypt, a group of Egyptian army officers were tired of waiting for them to leave overthrew the King (thus making colonel Nasser king of Egypt). He wanted to stand up to Britain and kick them out which led to the Suez War of 1956. This brought humiliation to the British, therefore making it the end of British influence there. So Nasser was indeed quite successful as leader of Egypt.
    4. “The USA and the USSR intervened in the Middle East in the period 1956 to 1979 purely to preserve political and economic stability in the region.” How valid do you think this view is?
    - I couldn’t completely agree with this view so I wouldn’t consider it Valid. Yeah the USSR intervened for political and economic stability but I cannot say the same for USA. They didn’t intervene in the Yom Kippur war and other wars as well so to say both countries intervened in the Middle East Purely to preserve political stability is not completely valid therefor making it invalid.

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  6. 5. Assess the reasons why the Six-Day war of 1967 was followed by the Yom Kippur War only three years later.
    - The Yom Kippur War followed the Six-Day War so quickly because the PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization) had a lot of pressure put on them, especially under the leader Yasser Arafat. When they didn’t really get anything done a more extremist group called the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) made a lot of terrorist attacks just to capture the attention of other world leaders to show what “justice” was being done to the Arabs. When negotiations were settled and all PLO members were expelled (disbanded) terrorist attacks still continued causing serious deaths even to those of the Israeli team. All of this was done so the Americans can join their side and persuade the Israelis to agree on a peace settlement but the Americans had refused to intervene.
    6. To what extent have the violent actions of some Palestinians been the main obstacle to the establishment of a Palestinian state?
    - I would say that their (them being the Palestinians) violent actions were a huge reason to why it was so hard to obtain an establishment of a Palestinian state. They had demanded and I would say respectfully earned a state of their own but with all the violence and deaths they caused with a lot of unnecessary wars. So I would say to a huge extent with all their violent actions was their main obstacle causing it to be a lot more difficult than it could have been to earn the establishment of a Palestinian state.

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  7. Samantha Foster
    IB World History
    Ms. Noce
    Conflict in the Middle East
    9-21-14

    1. Why and with what results did the Arabs and Israelis fight the wars of 1967 and 1963?
    The wars of 1963 and 1967 occurred as a result from how the wars of 1948-9 ended. At the end of the 1948-9 war, Many Arab states did not sign a peace treaty and denied Israel of their acknowledgement. In 1967, an alliance was formed between Iraq, Syria, and Egypt with destroying Israel as their main goal. Not wanted to be attacked first, the Israelis launched the first attack on Egypt using its air force which did massive damage to the Egyptian air force. This war resulted in a huge success for the Israelis. They were able to take the Gaza Strip and Sinai from Egypt and the Arab states were forced to accept a ceasefire. The Arab states were humiliated and hated that the fact that they were now under Israeli rule.

    2. “Terrorism and violence rather than peaceful diplomacy” How far would you agree with this view of the activities of the PLO in the Middle East in the period 1973 to 1995?
    I neither disagree or agree with this statement. I strongly disagree with this statement because not all Middle Eastern states had the same ideals as the PLO. King Hussein, ruler of Jordan, even disbanded the PLO from Jordan because he wanted to negotiate with peace. However, I do understand why the PLO would think this way. Terrorism, which is very bad, is a bold and unfortunately effective way to get your point across.

    3. How successful was President Nasser of Egypt?
    I believe that Nasser was somewhat of a successful President for Egypt. He did manage to do some pretty significant things such as establishing 100 acre farms and giving land to poorer farmers. He also tried to modernize Egypt by building more factories. He was also favored by his people due to his involvement with the Arab states. However, Nasser failed to notice that the Arab states would need help from other nations to take down Israel back in 1967, which led to their devastating defeat.

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  8. 4. "The USA and the USSR intervened in the Middle East in the period 1956 to 1979 purely to preserve political and economic stability in the region." How valid do you think this view is?
    I believe that that the USA and USSR’s intervention in the Middle East were of pure intentions. For example, the USSR tried help establish a communist government in the parts of Iran that bordered the USSR. The Shah(ruler) of Iran however decided to sign a defence treaty with the US instead of siding with Russia. In return, the USA provided Iran with economic and military aid. It wasn’t until a powerful nationalist movement in Iran declared that foreign influence was wrong. Soon, Iran began to resent the USA and other nations such as Britain

    5. Assess the reasons why the Six-Day War of 1967 was followed by the Yom Kippur War only three years later.
    After the Arab state’s humiliating defeat in the Six-Day war of 1967, the Arabs still felt the need to liberate Palestine from Israeli rule and were even pressured by the PLO( Palestine Liberation Organization) to do so. A series of terrorist attacks occurred and in one scenario, some PLO members hijacked airliners and and blew them up in Jordan. This was mortifying to King Hussein, the ruler of Jordan, who later disbanded a PLO base located there since he only wanted to negotiate peace.

    6. To what extent have the violent actions of some Palestinians been the main obstacle to the establishment of a Palestinian state?
    I think the reason why the violent actions of some Palestinians delayed the establishment of a Palestinian was because they refused to negotiate with anyone. They believed that violence was the way for their words to be heard. When they finally decided to sit down and negotiate things went more smoothly than it had been and as a result, Israel agreed to withdraw its troops and let Palestine govern themselves.

    Works Cited:
    Chapter 11: Conflict in the Middle East

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  9. 1. Why and with what results did the Arabs and Israelis fight the wars of 1967 and 1973?
    The war of 1967 was known as the Six Day War, the Arab alliance of Egypt, Syria, and Iraq fought (or more correctly, got served by) Israel. The purpose was to eliminate Israel and reclaim their “rightful land” from the Jews, moreover, they were so angry that they never signed the peace treaty after the 1947 War and still refused to recognize Israel as a state. Israel got word of the incoming attack from most of the Arab countries surrounding it and decided to whoop Arab @$$ to such a degree that the war only lasted 6 days (lol). The result was that Israel claimed large amounts of land from other Arab states and the Arab states got a massive humiliation. The Yom Kippur war of 1973 had pretty much the same reasons, with the addition of the desire to attract world attention for different causes. This time, the Arabs attacked during the Jewish feast of Yom Kippur so as to catch them off guard, but the Israelis once again defeated the Arabs. After the war, some hope for peace came when Egypt and Israel made agreements to end conflict. Also, the oil-producing Arab countries refused to supply oil to those friendly with Israel and caused an energy crisis.
    2. "Terrorism and violence rather than peaceful diplomacy." How far would you agree with this view of the activities of the PLO in the Middle East in the period 1973 to 1995?
    I agree with the quote, although there is one detail that the author may have missed: PEACE IN THE MIDDLE EAST HAS NEVER EXISTED. Beyond that, the PLO has been blowing up planes, and terrorizing the Middle East from 1973 to 1955. They even attacked other Arab states for christ’s sake.
    3. How successful was President Nasser as leader of Egypt?
    He was very successful in fighting for the better treatment of Egyptians, the independence of Egypt from Britain, and the overall transformation of Egypt into a more powerful state than it was before.
    4. "The USA and the USSR intervened in the Middle East in the period 1956 to 1979 purely to preserve political and economic stability in the region." How valid do you think this view is?
    The USA didn’t agree with what either nation was doing and their only reason was to keep them from fighting each other again, therefore being more of a mediator. The USSR on the other hand was more on the profitable side, getting some benefit from their relationships with Arab states, namely oil. I can’t completely agree there.
    5. Assess the reasons why the Six-Day War of 1967 was followed by the Yom Kippur War only three years later.
    The main reason was the tremendous humiliation brought by the defeat by the Israelis in the Six Day War, this caused anger amongst Arabs and organizations such as the PLO put pressure on their leaders to attack Israel once again and prove themselves after such a humiliating defeat.
    6. To what extent have the violent actions of some Palestinians been the main obstacle to the establishment of a Palestinian state?
    They indeed have, violent acts such as blowing planes and bombs up around, and such doesn’t really help since you will get the wrong kind of attention, what term would they prefer: “terrorist” vs. “freedom fighter"? They were also very reluctant to negotiate, which was only harming themselves even more.
    SOURCES:
    Trouble in the Middle East Packet

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  10. Erick Volquez
    IB History 12
    Ms.Noce
    9/18/14
    Conflict in the Middle East

    1. The Fights between the Arabs and Israelis where conducted or better know threw the name of the Arab-Israeli which was a political conflict between some Arabic Countries and Israel. The real roots and beginning of this problem derive from the rise of Zionism and at the same time Arab Nationalism towards the end of the 19th century. The territory which they were fighting for had two different backgrounds; the Jewish people said that was their historical homeland and the Arab Said it was a ”Pan-Arab” movement as a saying that it belonged to the Palestinian Arabs, and in the Pan-Islamic way of saying, their Muslim Lands. The conflict began to rise in early 20th century bring a full civil war in the hands of these two countries and then escalating to the First Arab-Israeli War. After this came the declaration of having Israel as a full known State by the Executive head of the World Zionist Organization. After Years of this massive conflict; the conflict diminished to a more central argument between Israeli-Palestinian conflict between these countries and then in 1973 the conflict rose up to the 1973 Yom Kippur War.
    2. “Terrorism and violence rather than peaceful diplomacy.” I believe that this quote is actually very accurate because if we look into some of the actions that the POL in the Middle East took then we could be able to analyze it a bit better. The last time that we could establish that there was any piece was in early 1940’s but ever since then there has been total chaos between the Arab countries. If we can look into the terrorism groups that rose up; they came with the Idea or at least only portrayed that they were coming for a peaceful diplomacy but after they took out their real ideals, there can’t be a thing such as peace in the Middle East.
    3. Gamal Abdel Nasser Hussein was the second president of Egypt. This man did everything in his power to start to make changes in Egypt since he believed that there was a purpose why he was in power and it was to devote him to those who were his people. The independence of Britain was a huge thing he fought for including a transformation of Egypt in the Areas Of Economy; to not look like a weak and poor state but to have it as a rich in wealth and resources state; the new Image that was better than the last.

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  11. 4. “The USA and the USSE intervened in the Middle East in the period 1956 to 1979 purely to preserve political and economic stability in the region.” When it comes to analyzing this quote there’s only two peaces of information that really break down this ideal. The United States intervened in the Middle East not because they wanted to fight and pick a side of for whom to defend; they just wanted to make sure that there was no intervision between these countries that had problems. Although is not clear, I believe that the U.S sided more with Israel just for safer reason being a small country. The USSR sided with the Arab States and only intervened because they received a lot of benefits from them like the primary source; oil. The ideal of the USSR was to push the Arabs states to keep pushing propaganda against Israel since already USSR’s communist ideals were not in the plans of the united States; so I can partially agree with this quote.
    5. The reason why the Six-day war of 1967 was followed by the Yom Kippur War only 3 days later was because of the declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel. David Ben-Gurion, the Executive Head of the World Zionism Organization, declared a establishment of a Jewish state in Eretz-Israel to be known as the State of Israel. This brought fury to the Arab states because that land that he was declaring as Israel state was also known by the Arabs as a Palestine land that belonged to them which is why several days later came the Yom Kippur War war.
    6. I think that the idea of “Extremism” when it comes to the actions of some Palestinian states doesn’t exist anymore. Many of these Palestinian states have given their all and devoted themselves to destroy and erase Israel from the map (so they say). The Violent and main obstacles including establishments have been centralized in the form we know as terrorism. Anything to catch people attention they would do; from the known group of Al-Qaeda to today’s group ISIS all try to bring “purity” into the Middle East and distory Israel.

    WORK CITED: Chapter 11: Conflict in the Middle East packet

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  12. William Portorreal
    IB History
    Ms. Noce


    1. The cause of the six-day war of 1967 was because the Arab states hadn’t signed a peace treaty and didn’t want to give Israel acceptance. Arab was desperate to take down Israel so they formed an alliance group with Iraq, Syria, and Egypt but still lost the war anyways. On October 6, 1973 Egyptian and Syrian forces attacked the feast of Yom Kippur early because they thought that they would be able to catch the Israelis off guard. The Arab states wanted revenge and attacked but after some time the UN co-operation created a ceasefire fire to reach peace and it worked.
    2. I totally agree with the quote because in the Middle East there is always some type of war going on and in the 1970s the PLO had hijacked planes because of the injustice being done to Arab. There have always been terrorists in the Middle East because they find that it is their way of spreading a message or to get attention. The countries in the middles east carry grudges with one another and they all want to have the most power which is why they don’t have peace.
    3. President Nasser was pretty successful as a leader of Egypt because he wanted independence for Egypt and he wanted to make Egypt stronger. Nasser tried to give Egyptians a better life and he also signed a contract with Russia to buy large amounts of weapons in order rid of Britain from their territory. Nasser also formed a group of people to stop people from being killed in Israel.
    4. I don’t think that the US and Russia intervened to preserve political and economic stability in the Middle East. I feel like the US and Russia wanted to get alliances and wanted to gain benefits. Russia probably wanted to make the Arab states into a communist party while the US wanted to gain benefits from Iran such as oil and more.
    5. The six day war of 1967 was followed by the Yom Kippur three years later because the Arabs felt embarrassed and humiliated. They wanted revenge and were determined to fight them but what also made them attack sooner was the PLO. The PLO had pressured them with their terrorist activities and they wanted to see Israel defeated.
    6. The Palestinian has made so much violent acts which include a lot of terrorist activities and they don’t agree with any country. Religion plays a role because the majority of the Palestinians are Muslims and they don’t get along with other religions. The Palestinian establishment of their state has been encouraged through violence because they rather fight instead of crating peace which is why they have a hard time getting along with other countries.
    Source: chapter 11 conflict in the Middle East

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  13. Mu Ying Yu
    IB World History 12
    Ms. Noce
    9/21/2014
    Conflict In The Middle East
    1. Why and with what results did the Arabs and Israelis fight the war of 1967 and 1973?
    -- The war of 1967 also known as the Six Day War. The Arabs refused to sign a peace treaty with Israel and refused to give them official recognition. In 1967, they join together in determined to destroy Israel. They went conquer Iraq, Syria and Egypt. The result was successful. The war in 1973 known as The Yom Kippur War and the war began at Oct 6, 1973. Egyptian and Syrian cooperate to attack on the feast of Yom Kippur and hope to catch the Israelis. After few of Arabs successful attack, the Israelis brought in American weapons to help them fight in war and they passes the weapons to the territories they captured in 1967 and even Suez Canal into Egypt. The outcome of this war is hope for permanent peace between the Egyptian and Israelis to end the war. The oil-producing Arab countries refuse to supply oil to the country who are friendly to Israel and later on cause energy crisis.
    2.”Terrorism and violence rather than peaceful diplomacy.” How far would you agree with this view of the activities of the PLO in the Middle East in the period 1973 and 1995?
    -- I agree with this quote because peace never existed in Middle East since 1945. Middle East countries always had problems with other countries/territories. In 1955 to 1973, the PLO had been blowing planes and destroy territories in Middle East.
    3.How successful was President Nasser as leader of Egypt?
    -- President Nasser was very successful as a leader of Egypt by fighting better behavior towards Egyptian and fight for Egypt Independence from Britain. He transform the whole Egypt to become a more strong countries than before.
    4.”The USA and the USSR intervened in the Middle East in the period 1956 to 1979 purely to preserve political and economic stability in the region.” How valid do you think this view is?
    -- I don’t think this view is valid because the USA and the USSR did not intervened. They did not intervened and there will be no Israel because the Arabs had accomplish all the territories for themselves. They did not intervened to keep country stable but for their own self benefits like oil because Middle East is the largest oil producer.
    5.Assess the reasons why the Six-Day War of 1967 was followed by the Yom Kippur War only three years later.
    -- The Six-Day War of 1967 was followed by the Yom Kippur War only three years later because the defeat of Israelis from the Six Day War and that caused the Arab and PLO to be angry and put pressure to attack Israel again to show their humiliating defeat.
    6.To what extent have the violent actions of some Palestinians been the main obstacle to the establishment of a Palestinian state?
    --The violent actions of some Palestinians been the main obstacle to the establishment of a Palestinian state because they refused to negotiate with each other, that might ends up with war again. But lastly, Israel agree to take out their troops and let Palestine to take control. The process went by smoothly and as a result no war.
    Work Cited:
    - Chapter 11 Conflict In The Middle East

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  15. Junior FanFan
    Ms.Noce
    IB History
    September 22, 2014

    1. Why and with what results did the Arabs and Israelis fight the wars of 1967 and 1973?
    The wars of 1967 and 1963 occurred because of how the conflict of 1948-1949 ended. After the war of 1948 and 1949 many Arab states didn't want to agree to signing a peace treaty. 1967 was when a alliance was formed between Iraq, Syria, and Egypt because destroying Israel was the goal of all the countries. this war was a big success for the Israelies because they were able to take the Gaza strip and Sinai from Egypt and the Arab States.
    2. "Terrorism and violence rather than peaceful diplomacy." How far would you agree with this view of the activities of the PLO in the Middle East in the period 1973 to 1995?
    I agree with this statement because their is no such thing as Peace. I say this because the PLO would do terrorist Attack for attention. In 1970 they hijacked airlines and flew them to Amman were they blew up. even today there are still terrorist groups that hurt people for fun and attention.
    3. How successful was President Nasser as leader of Egypt?
    President Nasser wanted unity and independence for Egypt. He formed guerrilla fighter to " Sabotage and Murder" in Israel. He signed a arms deal with the Czechoslovakia, to get Russian fighters bombers and to get tanks. Russian troops trained the Egyptian army. so for the Egyptian people he did very well, but for the British, Americans and French they didn't agree.
    4. The USA and the USSR intervened in the Middle East in the period 1956 to 1979 purely to preserve political and economic stability in the region." How valid do you think this view is?
    I don't think both of these countries was to preserve political and economic stability in the region because in 1956 the Americans didn't really agree with what the Egyptians were doing which was to get a deal with military equipment with Czechoslovakia.
    5. Assess the reasons why the Six-Day War of 1967 was followed by the Yom Kippur War only three years later.
    . The six day war of 1967 was followed by the Yom Kippur three years later because the Arabs felt embarrassed and humiliated. They wanted revenge and were determined to fight them but what also made them attack sooner was the PLO. The PLO had pressured them with their terrorist activities and they wanted to see Israel defeated.
    6. To what extent have the violent actions of some Palestinians been the main obstacle to the establishment of a Palestinian state?
    I would say that their (them being the Palestinians) violent actions were a huge reason to why it was so hard to obtain an establishment of a Palestinian state. They had demanded and I would say respectfully earned a state of their own but with all the violence and deaths they caused with a lot of unnecessary wars. So I would say to a huge extent with all their violent actions was their main obstacle causing it to be a lot more difficult than it could have been to earn the establishment of a Palestinian state.
    Work Cited: Chapter 11 Conflict in the Middle East.

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  16. Dinia Clairveaux
    Ms.Noce
    IB History 12
    9/22/14

    Conflict in the middle East Questions
    1.Why and with what results did the Arabs and Israelis fight the wars of 1967 and 1973?
    The Arab and the Israelis fought the war of 1967 due to the treaty that wasn't sighed at the conclusion of the 1948-9 were. The Arabs were still denying the Israelis recognition. In 1967 the they joined forces with the determination to annihilate the Israelis. They went and conquered Iraq,Syria and Egypt. The result of this war was successful for.The Israelis. The defied the order which was to return the territories that they had conquered. This act humiliated the Arabs. The war was 1973 occurred due to the pressure the Palestine liberation organization placed on the Arab states. Then one of extreme groups the (PFLP) the popular front of the liberation of Palestine started conflicts in the states to attain attention to what had been done to the Arabs. what triggered the war was the Arabs attack on the Israelis during a Jewish religious festival.The outcome of the war was there brought a prospect of hope of lasting peace.and also the Arab oil producing states tried to pressure Israel's allies into leaving the alliance by reducing the oil supplies, cause a oil shortage in Europe. Due to this the OPEC rose oil prices.
    2."Terrorism and violence rather than peaceful diplomacy." How far would you agree with this view of the activities of the PLO in the Middle East in the period 1973 to 1995?
    I don’t agree with this quote because there was never peace between the Arabs and the Israelis in the middle East they have had many of years of tension between them. The PLO decide to blow up planes killing many passengers and persecute the middle East for a total of 18 years.
    3.How successful was President Nasser as leader of Egypt?
    President Nasser was successful as a leader as far as he fought for the Egyptians and liberated them from Britain. And improved Egyptian in all categories.
    4."The USA and the USSR intervened in the Middle East in the period 1956 to 1979 purely to preserve political and economic stability in the region." How valid do you think this view is?
    I don’t think its is valid because the USA and the USSR did not intervene there wouldn't have been Israel because the Arabs would have attain all of the territories. They did not intervene to keep the country from attaining stability the did it for there own benefits because they wanted oil and the Middle East is the world largest oil producing country.
    5.Assess the reasons why the Six-Day War of 1967 was followed by the Yom Kippur War only three years later.
    It was followed by the Yom Kippur War because the Arabs wanted to take revenge due their humiliating defeat during the War of 1967.
    6.To what extent have the violent actions of some Palestinians been the main obstacle to the establishment of a Palestinian state?
    To the extent that the palestinians used extreme measure to obtain what they wanted then but did not succeed due to underestimating their opponent the Israelis even though they were very small in numbers.
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  17. 1. Why and with what results did the Arabs and Israelis fight the wars of 1967 and 1973?
    The Six-day War occurred in 1967. The cause cause of this was was that the Arabs strongly disagreed with signing a peace treaty in 1948. Another reason for this war was because the Arabs refused to give Israel "official recognition". In 1967 the Arab states, Iraq, Syria and Egypt allied together and stricken on Israel. As a result, Israel defeated the opposing team and won the war, leaving the opposing team with disappointment and anger.
    The war in 1973 was basically a part 2 of the Six Day War. What caused this war I in 1973 was 1) the Arabs had many terrorist attacks on people from Israel. Therefore, Israel had to strike back because people were being killed from there terrorist attacks. 2) Anwar Sadat, president of Egypt, tried very hard to get the Americans Americans to ally with them so that the Americans could persuade the people from Israel to sign a peace settlement however, the Americans refused to do so and this generated much anger. The last reason reason for the war in 1973 was that people from Egypt and Syria attacked Israel just to get the Americans attention so that they and persuade Israel to sign a settlement. The result of the war was that the people from Israel agreed to sign a peace settlement. Israelis moved their troops from the Suez Canal, letting the Egyptians to reopen the canal.
    2. "Terrorism and violence rather than peaceful diplomacy." How far would you agree with this view of the activities of the PLO in the Middle East in the period 1973 to 1995?
    From my perspective, I completely disagree with this statement. I believe in peace rather than using violence. However, if we are basing this off of the people's perspectives in Israel then I completely agree with this statement. I would agree because if I'm not mistaken, there have been many peace settlements but how many were taken seriously? Absolutely none. This maybe an assumption but I think that in Israel the only way to to get what you want is by using violence.
    3. How successful was President Nasser as leader of Egypt?
    In my opinion, I think that President Nasser wasn't really successful in being a leader of Egypt. He but Egypt in danger when he went into war with Israel. President Nasser let Egypt down because it wasn't until after that that he noticed he need back up from the outside. I think that when you go into war you always need someone who is going to be there just in case you are losing in the fight. This is where where I think President Nasser failed miserably on.

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  18. 4. "The USA and the USSR intervened in the Middle East in the period 1956 to 1979 purely to preserve political and economic stability in the region." How valid do you think this view is?
    I think that this quote is somewhat invalid but yet valid. I think it's because the USA refused to get involved in the Yom Kippur War. President Nasser kept asking the USA to take some part of the war but the USA disapproved. However, at some point in time the USA did get involved with the conflict in Egypt. As for the USSR this quote is valid for them.
    5. Assess the reasons why the Six-Day War of 1967 was followed by the Yom Kippur War only three years later.
    The reason why the Six Day War of 1967 was followed by the Yom Kippur War only three years later was because the Arabs lost that war miserably and they felt ashamed of of themselves. They wanted to prove to themselves that they were better than this. One other reason why the Yom Kippur War happened only three years later was because the leader of the PLO was forcing them to attack Israel.
    6. To what extent have the violent actions of some Palestinians been the main obstacle to the establishment of a Palestinian state?
    In my opinion, I think that the violent actions of some Palestinians has been the main obstacle to the establishment of a Palestinian state. I think this because it was very had to come up and agree with one rule. It was hard because not everyone had the same moral beliefs. When it came time to make a decision everyone kept thinking making decisions based on how it would benefit just them and not everyone around them.

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  19. Germairy Roman
    Ms. Noce
    IB History 12
    9/22/14
    Conflict In The Middle East
    1. Why and with what results did the Arabs and Israelis fight the wars of 1967 and 1973?
    The Arabs and Isrealis fought the wars of 1967 and 1973 after two wars between the Isrealis and various Arab states. The The two various wars occurred on 1948-49 and 1956. The wars of 1967 and 1973 insured due to those various wars and also the strained relationship between Isrealis and Arab states. The Arabs blamed braitain and the USA for entertaining the idea of having a Jewish state in the Middle East. The Arabs were furious that Israel became a state in the Middle East and had plans to destroy Israel. The Arabs ended up being unsuccessful with their attacks against Israel which allowed Israel to survive.

    2."Terrorism and violence rather than peaceful diplomacy." How far would you agree with this view of the activities of the PLO in the Middle East in the period 1973 to 1995?
    I can see why the PLO would prefer terrorism and violence rather than peaceful diplomacy. The PLO were angry at the fact that Jewish states were being created in the Middle East and claimed that it was injustice. This prompted the PLO to par take in terrorist activities. I am completely against terrorism and I believe that it would be better to settle problems without violence. I would never encourage terrorist activities.

    3. How successful was President Nasser as leader of Egypt?
    President Nasser was successful because he was a considerate leader. He was a leader to the Arab world and he would try to improve conditions in Egypt. Nasser wanted to make the city modern and had factories built. All of the factories were controlled by the government. Electricity and water was provided to Egypt through the Aswan Dam project.

    4."The USA and the USSR intervened in the Middle East in the period 1956 to 1979 purely to preserve political and economic stability in the region." How valid do you think this view is?
    The USA didn't want to upset the Arabs because upsetting the Arabs would come with consequences. The Arabs would become allies with the USSR and that would create problems for the USA.

    5. Assess the reasons why the Six-Day War of 1967 was followed by the Yom Kippur War only three years later.
    The main thing that the Arab states wanted to do was destroy Israel and liberate Palestine. President Nasser realized how huge of a feat it would be to try and destroy Israel and thought that the Arab states required outside help. Nasser seeker assistance from the Russians but they were of no avail. The Yom Kippur war followed the aforementioned events, and it was another attempt at liberate Palestine.

    6. To what extent have the violent actions of some Palestinians been the main obstacle to the establishment of a Palestinian state?
    The violent actions of some Palestinians like terrorism was the main obstacle to the establishment of a Palestinian state. I believe that those actions were unnecessary no matter how angry they were. Injustice could be resolved with a peace treaty.

    Work Cited - Conflict in the Middle East Packet

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  20. Naomie Bourdeau
    Ms.Noce
    September, 22,2014
    IB World History
    Conflict in the Middle East


    1. Why and with what results did the Arabs and Israelis fight the wars of 1967 and 1973?
    -Since conflicts were still not settled within the peace treaty at the end of the 1948-9, there was still conflicts in the Arabs. So, there main goal was to destroy Israel once in for all. In 1967 Iraq,Syria,Egypt joined together to fulfill this goal. Also they believed Arab independence were “left-wing in outlook”, so they wanted better “social reform ….better treatment for ordinary people”.In result ,they failed because they needed outside help to defeat the Palestine. In 1973 , Israelis fought the in the war because they decided that it was better for them to attack first then to wait on being attacked. They launched many air strikes, and moved in with remarkable speed. They won successfully because they were smart and had ignored the UN order “to return the capture territory” . That gave them better advantages to defend Israel.
    2. "Terrorism and violence rather than peaceful diplomacy." How far would you agree with this view of the activities of the PLO in the Middle East in the period 1973 to 1995?
    -I would agree less because violence should not be the way to solve any problems. I rather it be solve in a peaceful manner. Although they were a lot of things going on. The PLO still recognized Israel rights ,so it wasn't like they were being unjust.
    3. How successful was President Nasser as leader of Egypt?
    -I think president Nasser was pretty successful because he had great attempts to improve the conditions in Egypt. He had great ways to industrialize the country and almost 1000 factories were built. That honestly ,will take a good leader to accomplish such an improvement on an economy that was considered to be low.
    4"The USA and the USSR intervened in the Middle East in the period 1956 to 1979 purely to preserve political and economic stability in the region." How valid do you think this view is?
    -I dont think this would be a valid view because, Suez War of 1956 and the Egyptian-Israeli peace both of these countries was to preserve political and economic stability in the region because in 1956. The Americans at that time didn't really agree with what the Egyptians were doing which was to get a deal with military equipment with Czechoslovakia. The U.S. almost wanted tell Nasser whatexaclty for him to do. . Another thing was that America was always pressing the Egyptians for an answer, USA played an important role when it came to dealing. So thats what i think .
    5)Assess the reasons why the Six-Day War of 1967 was followed by the Yom Kippur War only three years later.
    -The reason why the Six Day War of 1967 was followed by the Yom Kippur War only three years later was because the Arabs lost that war horribly and they felt discouraged of themselves. They wanted to prove to themselves that they were better than this. One other reason why the Yom Kippur War happened only three years later was because the leader of the PLO was forcing them to attack Israel.
    6)To what extent have the violent actions of some Palestinians been the main obstacle to the establishment of a Palestinian state?
    -I think to a far extent the reason why the violent actions of some Palestinians delayed the establishment of a Palestinian was because they refused to negotiate with anyone. They believed that violence was the way for their words to be heard. When they finally decided to negotiate things went more better than it had been and as a result, Israel agreed to withdraw its troops and let Palestine govern themselves. So everything worked out at the end.

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    Chapter 11 Conflict In the Middle East Packet

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