Lecture 19

Professor started class by showing us an ultra sound and saying that he is going to have a baby boy! yay!!! We started off by talking about the six-day war in 1967. The war was between Egypt and Israeli. Isreaeli forces lauch pre-emptive stikes and reduce Egyptian air force within hourse. They force entry on the Old City and Moshe Dayan gives control of haram to Muslims. Israeli Knesset formally annexes Old City and East Jerusalem.He showed us a picutre of a Zion Gate and how it had bullet holes on the outside of it.We quickly talked about Kind David Hotel area from Old City. He gave us a situation in which people who were not in a country and used a bomb to kill military people. Is it considered terrorism? But then he goes and give a different example in which they are just people trying to get their space back, and those deaths were just colateral damage. We are left trying to figure out if it is terrorism or not and this is the things that are going on in Jerusalem.They started intifadas; consists of cival disobediance, refusal to pay taxes, violent action, things along these lines. We are going to do everything to not interact with isrealies. The first intifada was in 1988-1992, leading to the Oslo Accords in 1993.The Oslo Accords, which occured in 1993, was the declaration of priciples on interim self-government arrangments. or declaration of principles. It called for creation of PNA as wellas israeli withdrawal from gaza strip and west bank. It was officially signed at a public ceremony in Wasington, DC on Sept 13, 1993. . In 1996 ther ewere temple mount controversy. From 2000 to present day, the second intifada occued. It provoked by Ariel Sharons visit to the al-aqsa Mosque.The PLO, the Palestine LIberation Organization, was founded in 1964. It is considered by the US to be a terrorist organization until Madrid Conference in 1991. The state of Palestine unilaterally declared in Nov, 15 1988.

We finished class by going over Jerusalem in the past ten years. This will be my last blog for this class but it was a good experience!!!
THANKS CARGILL! you are a great professor