Homework 1

If you had to draft the main points for an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement, what recurring problems between the Israelis and Palestinians would you try to rectify to bring an end to this costly, 70-year conflict? Use the readings and activities from this module and any additional research to try and devise at least three possible solutions. Post your findings in bullet format (3-4 lines each) – in each bullet, identify the problem and follow that with your proposed solution.

Example: Bullet 1: Support for the two-state solution – one of the ways to possibly end the fighting between the Israelis and Palestinians would be for the international community to support a two-state solution. To make this happen, however, both sides would have to put aside their historical differences and compromise.

Question 2: Define the Zionist movement, which stated that Jewish people needed their own homeland. Summarize how this took place.