Transcript ISRAEL – ישראל Land and Security Elad Arnon Israeli Shaliach for Central Alabama Clash of Historical Narratives Israeli and Palestinian identities are deeply entangled.

ISRAEL –
‫ישראל‬
Land and Security
Elad Arnon Israeli Shaliach for
Central Alabama
Clash of Historical
Narratives
Israeli and Palestinian identities are deeply entangled. The two
peoples lay claim to the same land and locate their holy sites in the
same city. Ironically, they share a history of displacement and
wandering, of being identified as an unwanted, outcast body.
Israeli and Palestinian Identities in History and
Literature.
St. Martin's Press, 1999.
Islamic Empire in the Middle Ages the National Arab dream
Palestinian National movement
The first demand for Palestinian national independence was issued by the
Syrian-Palestinian Congress on 21 September 1921 after the collapse of the
Ottoman’s Empire.
Mohammad Amin al-Husayni was the first palestinian nationalist
leader active in both opposing the British in order to secure the
independence of Palestine as an Arab state and led violent riots
against Jews opposing the establishment of a National home for
the Jewish people in Palestine
During World War 2 he cooperate with
Nazi Germany asking to prevent the
deportation of Europe Jews to Palestin
al-Husayni meeting with Adolf Hitler (December 1941).
United Nations
Partition Plan for
Palestine
resolution adopted by the
General Assembly on 29
November 1947 by a vote
of 33 to 13, with 10
abstentions
Film of the UN
resolution:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZpNpueivtWQ&feature=related
Zionist movement leads to the establishment of the
state of Israel
“After being forcibly exiled from their land, the Jewish
people kept faith with it throughout their Dispersion and
never ceased to pray and hope for their return to it and
for the restoration in it of their political freedom”.
Israeli Declaration of Independence May 1948
Israel after the war
5 Arabs army invasion to
the new Israeli state may
1948
The Palstinian’s Nakba
the Palestinian Arabs failed to prevent the
establishment of a Jewish state according
to the partition plan, an estimated 700,000
Palestinian refugees and the
destruction and abandonment of up to
418 Palestinian villages are called alNakba ("The Catastrophe") by
Palestinians
Palastinians Refuges 1948
The key symbolize the hope to return home
Six Day War - 1967
The Casus
belli:
Three major
threats
Syria threat – shooting
from the Golan heights
to north Israel
Jordan threat –
siege on
Jerusalem
Egypt threat - closing of the Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping
Six days war – June 1967
Within the brief span of six days, the IDF overran the Sinai
peninsula; took the entire West Bank of the River
Jordan; and captured a great part of the Golan Heights.
The culminating event was the capture of the Old City of
Jerusalem
“I stand here before you, the leaders of our
generation, in awe, in this ancient, glory filled
place overlooking our eternal capital and
looking upon the staging grounds of our
nation's earliest history”.
IDF chief of staff Yitzhak Rabin: Acceptance of Honorary
Doctorate Mt. Scopus June 28, 1967
Israeli Generals in liberated
Jerusalem
Israel Today – West Bank – Gaza Strip:
two nations three governments
Israel
Hamas Regime
The
Palestinian
Authority
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Recent events Time Line
Time line
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July
2000
The Middle East Peace Summit at Camp David failed.
There were four principal obstacles to agreement: territory, Jerusalem and
the Temple Mount, Palestinian refugees and the 'right of return”, and Israeli
security concerns.
September
2000
The Second Intifada, also known as the Al-Aqsa Intifada
Palestinian rioting erupted following Ariel
Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount
Ariel Sharon, at the time from the Likud party, ran against
February
2001
Ehud Barak from the Labour party.
Sharon was elected Israeli Prime Minister February 2001
Sharon refused to meet in person with Yasser Arafat.
June
2001
civilian Israeli movement called Fence for began
a struggle for the construction of a continuous
security fence between the Palestinian population
centers and the Israeli population
Israeli
government
Builds the
security
fence
Stage A - runs from Salem to Elkana, and around Jerusalem (in the
northern and southern sections), was completed by the end of July
2003.
Stage B - running from Salem towards Bet- Shean, through the
Jezreel Valley and the Gilboa mountains, approved in December
2002, was completed in 2004.
Security
arrangements in
the West Bank
Terrorism has been defined throughout the international community
as a crime against humanity. As such, the State of Israel not only has
the right but also the obligation to do everything in its power to
lessen the impact and scope of terrorism on the citizens of Israel.
The Security Fence is an operational concept conceived by the Israeli
Defense Establishment in order to reduce the number of terrorist
attacks whether in the form of explosive- rigged vehicles or in the form
of suicide bombers who enter into Israel with the intention of
murdering innocent babies, children, women and men.
Fence Against Terror (Video - IDF Spokesperson production).
http://switch5.castup.net/Customers/Castup/v_round_320x240/Design.asp?clipurl=http://switch3.castup.net/cunet/gm.asp?
ClipMediaID=1221451&ak=null
Ramadan Shalah, Palestinian Islamic Jihad leader,publicly admits that
Israel's Security Fence is an important obstacle to the terrorist
The threat
Israel is faced with several threats which required a multi layered response:
Continued terrorist attacks including shootings, explosive charges, booby rigged
vehicles and suicide bombers.
Smuggling of weapons, explosive and explosive charges into Israel.
Initiation of violent acts and terrorist activity through the assimilation into the local
arab population.
Exploded bus and car as a
result of a
suicide bomber
Carmel Market in Tel Aviv after a suicide bombing
1-nov-2004
passover massacre Netanya March 27, 2002
The Hebrew University Cafeteria after bombing 31-july-2002
The response
The IDF is responsible for the operational activation of the Security
Fence both on its eastern and western side.
Command and control centers along the Security Fence receive on
line data from the various observation systems and devices.
They provide the soldiers in the center with up to date situational
map of each and every sector.Once a change in the pattern is
detected or an alert is signalled, they can direct the patrol to inspect
the suspicious cause for alert and deal with it.
Solid barrier system
This particular design is used in a minority of cases- a total of 8 km in the
initial stages of the project (4%).
Its main purpose is to prevent sniper fire into Israel and on major
highways and roads.
This design is used mainly along the new Trans - Israel Highway, in Bat
Hefer and Matan, and in densely populated urban areas such as
Jerusalem.
Once the whole project is completed, the portion of the concrete sections
will be 6%, approximately 30 km.
Natan Sharansky:
Minister of Housing and Construction during Ariel
Sharon Government:
When Israel's free society was defending itself against an unprecedented campaign of
terror, most of the international community was calling for an end of the "cycle of violence"
and a return to the negotiating table.
When the Palestinian terrorists struck... Israel was condemned for imposing "collective
punishment" on the Palestinian population.
When Israel chose to target individual terrorists with precision air strikes, its actions were
condemned as illegal extrajudicial assassinations.
It seemed that in eyes of many, the Jews had a right to defend themselves in theory
but could not exercise that right in practice...
Haifa
Netanya
Tel Aviv
Ramallah
Jerusalem
Bethlehem
Design of the Multi layered Fence system
The settlements
movement
Right wing
The settlements
movement
The land of Israel is the birthright of the
Jewish people and no political leader has
the jurisdiction to give away any part of it.
Agreements damaging the integrity and
security of Israel have not and do not
further the goal of peace in the region.
Yesha today boasts well over 150 communities:
http://www.amana.co.il/Index.asp?CategoryID=100
personal perspective
Conflict/ Elad Arnon
So many things in my mind I want to share
Sometimes word is a cruel way
To express, to dare
Dear homeland please stop
Bleeding
As my hart
Is keep
On biting
Sweet land of milk and honey
Use to fall throw cold
Interests and money
And I just a child
Wandering alone
Between love and hate
And so goes on.
In my lovely house
There is a window
I can see a fence from there
This my mother hands to save me
From bombing busses or
Shooting men
This my father hate to send them:
“Don’t you ever hit my boy”
And there's the book to justify
Abraham Isaac Adonai
When I put my ranks
I sharp my sword
To keep Golan to my hart close
But back Home Jerusalem still crying
Politics get hard when people dying.
Written during Israeli Palestinian seminar in
Walberberg Germany August 2009
For more information about the conflict:
Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Israel Ministry of Defance
Questions about the fence
Makom – Engaging Israel
One Voice
http://www.securityfence.mod.gov.il/Pages/ENG/default.htm
http://www.securityfence.mod.gov.il/Pages/ENG/questions.htm
http://makom.haaretz.com/
http://onevoice-la.org/
Knesset website
http://knesset.gov.il/
Museum on the Steam
Yesha
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA
http://www.mots.org.il/Eng/Index.asp
http://www.yesha-israel.com/index/home/
Questions and comments will be more then welcome
Elad Arnon JFCA Shaliach [email protected]