Choose one of the three Student Study Sections from Section IV only – not associated with one of the photos. Follow the prompt/rubric and post your response on the blog.
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Student Study Section – Source C
The Law of Return had a huge impact on Israel’s political and economic life. The economics in Israel at the time were very bad. They were just facing the end of the 1948 war and were trying to get a new political figure. They were facing small amounts of food and water and it was hard to support there current population. Facing the increase in population was hard because they had to sustain all the new citizens. The Palestinians and Israelites were trying to minimize the return of past citizens but this ended when the Law of Return was passed. As a result the Palestine was facing a political and economic disaster. This in return led to the new leader Nasser to become politically powerful in Egypt and Israel.
Student Study Section: Compare and Source E and Source F.
Source E comes from a Jewish perspective, and the source states that the Palestinian Arabs caused their own downfall by resisting the majority decision to partition Palestine. The Jewish perspective persists that the Arabs were unwilling to recognize Israelis as a people and continually waged war rather than sought peace.
Source F comes from a Palestinian perspective, and unlike Source E, it maintains that the Arabs were the victims while the Jews were the persecutors. The Palestinian perspective also says that the Jewish people won the land through unjust measures such as simply moving millions of Palestinians out of their home.
Both sources are about the displaced Palestinians, but both parties blame the other for the Diaspora. Source E points to the Palestinian inability to follow the democratic process as the reason for their displacement, while Source F focuses on the mal-ethics of the Jewish people to not allow Palestinians back to their homes.
Source C-What effect do you think the passing of this law would have on Jews living outside Israel, Jews living within Israel and Palestinians? On 14 July 1952, Israel passed the First Nationality Law.
The Law of Return encouraged Jews who had fled Israel during the Diaspora to return, this caused an influx of Jews into the nation and the population doubled to around 1.4 million people. However, there was conflict with the Jews living in Israel and the immigrants that consisted of a majority of European Jews who thought them selves to be at a higher social-economic level than their peers. Thus a two class society emerged within the nation. Furthermore Israel’s political scene began to change as more immigrant Jews supported the opposition part, Likud instead of the Mapai Party due to its negative attitude towards the non-European Jews.
Source C.
The law of return caused many problems for the Jews. As the population increased a two –class society began to emerge and bigger problems took place. First of all the state of Israel had an increasing population, a shortage of water and a shortfall in food supplies. Therefore the Jews that were not lucky enough ended up in settlement and in camps. The First Nationality Law was passed on the 14 July 1952. The law effectively denationalized Palestinians and granted every Jew who immigrated to Israel.
Student Study Section
Israeli and Palestine’s Flags
The flag of Israel was adopted on October 28,1948,five months after the formation of the country. It had been designed in 1891 for the Zionist movement.
The basic design recalls the Tallit, the Jewish prayer shawl, which is traditionally white with blue stripes. The hexagram located in the center is the Magen David, known as the star of David which has become a Jewish symbol in late medieval Prague and was adopted by the First Zionist Congress in 1897.
The white color symbolizes light, honesty, innocence and peace. The blue color is a symbol for trust, loyalty, wisdom, confidence, faith, truth and heaven
Some Israeli Arab politicians have requested a reevaluation of the Israeli flag since the Star of David in the center of the flag is an exclusively Jewish, religious symbol.
The Palestinian flag is based on the Flag of the Arab revolt, representing the Palestinian people and the Palestinian authority.
The flag is made up of three horizontal stripes which are black, white and green, overlaid by a red triangle. These colors are the Pan-Arab colors.
The flag is very similar to the flags of Jordan and Western Sahara which both drew their inspiration from the Arab Revolt against the Ottoman rul in 1918.
Before it became Palestine’s flag, it had been the flag of the Arab Federation of Iraq and Jordan.
In 1967, after the Six Day War, Israel banned the Palestinian flag in the Gaza Strip and West band and by 1980 a law was created banning artwork composed of the four Arab colors. Palestinians were arrested for displaying such artwork.
The ban has been abolished at the Oslo Peace Accords in 1993 and since then the flag has been used in many ceremonies on military and political levels.
What was the political status of Palestinians living in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank and Israel? The political status of the refugees was essentially stateless. They did not have citizenship to the states they were official refugees in nor, to Israel. The class system that was created based on this separated the Palestinians into classes based on their societal status (peasants, landowning, middle class, and wealthy). They were also separated based on where they lived (Gaza Strip, Israel, West Bank and Golan Heights).
Source C
The Law of Return made a big impact as it encouraged immigration among Jews to Israel during the Diaspora. Population increased to 1.4 million people. Conflicts began to arise as a result of Jew migration to Israel and the immigrants, which made-up a greater part of European Jews who felt they were at higher ranking within society compared to other Jews. This resulted in a twp-class society, Israel’s political prospect shifted as the immigrant Jew population there was a downfall of food supplies and water. The Jews were unable to end up in settlement and camps. In July 14, 1952 the first Nationality Law was passed.