Synthesis Outline Assignment

SYNTHESIS OUTLINE Student Name (First and Last): ______________________ Maya Ahmed I. Introduction a. Hook _________ Why are Palestine and Israel having conflicts, and how long has this been going on? b. Relevant Background ______________________________________________________________ ___ Both countries are located in the Middle East: Israel is a country along the eastern coastline of the Mediterranean Sea, and Palestine is a small territory that includes the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and East Jerusalem. Israel surrounds Palestine geographically. Israel is considered a state in the United Nations, while Palestine is not officially known as a state. However, the United Nations recognizes the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) as a representation of the state and is included as a non- member observer state. c. Thesis Statement __________________________________________________________________ _____ The reason why Palestine and Israel have been experiencing disputes for decades because they cannot coexist on the same land peacefully as a result of religious as well as geopolitical reasons. II. Body 1 a. Topic Sentence ____________________________________________________________________ __ Palestine is a predominantly Muslim country, while Israel is a predominantly Zionist country. Both are fighting for ownership of the territory because it has religious ties to both religions (Islam and Judaism), not because they cannot live harmoniously as two different religions. b. Supporting Sentences i. Evidence _____________________________________________________________________ _ Wender (2011) states that, "From the very beginning of Islam to nearly present day, in Muslim countries Judaism flourished side by side with Islam .... The general relationship between religion and culture is complex .... This is particularly true of religions that have complex common origins, such as the Abrahamic faiths [Islam, Judaism, Christianity]. In fact, the very interrelatedness of these traditions betrays the causes of their interreligious rivalry and deadly historical conflicts .... " ii. Why your evidence is important _________________________________________________ ___ This clarifies how the conflict between Israel and Palestine is not a religious war: it involves religious motives, but is not entirely based on them being different religions because Muslims and Judaisms have lived together in harmony before. c. Concluding Sentence _______________________________________________________________ __ The Palestinians Arabs and the Israeli Jews are not at war because they exert contrasting religious views, rather because they have similar religious affiliations involving the same piece of land and Abrahamic revelations. III. Body 2: a. Topic Sentence ____________________________________________________________________ __ The two sides of the Palestine/Israel conflict use historical analogies to describe the Israelite's view of and the Palestinian's perspective of the same issue. b. Supporting Sentences

SYNTHESIS OUTLINE i. Evidence _____________________________________________________________________ __ Turner (2019) delineates that, "In addition to its role in the Israeli national consciousness, the Holocaust has also been invoked as an analogy to demonize opponents and 'enemies' {Palestinians]...There has not been a war in Israel from 1948 til the present ongoing outburst of violence which began in October 2000 [and is still escalating in 2023] that has not been perceived, defined, and conceptualized in terms of the Holocaust" (2019). ii. Why your evidence is important _________________________________________________ _ This supports the fact that Israel sees Palestine as a threat to their right to exist as a beleaguered nation and the destruction of their Jewish homeland. iii. Evidence _____________________________________________________________________ _ On the other hand, Turner (2019) explains how, "the apartheid analogy, invoked by Palestinians (and some international commentators) to compare their treatment by Israel with South Africa's treatment of non-whites during its apartheid era...The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the African National Congress (ANC) have had a long-standing relationship as anti- colonial movements seeking liberation. In the early 1970s, the PLO and many Palestinian political factions compared Israel's proposals for Palestinian autonomy (expressed through the Allon Plan) to the Bantustan strategy of South Africa" (2019) iv. Why your evidence is important _________________________________________________ ___ This supports the fact that Israel and Palestine both see each other as threats to their right to exist. c. Concluding Sentence _______________________________________________________________ _ Palestine uses the "Apartheid analogy" to show how Israel wants to oppress them and are victims of racism and settler colonialism, while Israel uses the "Holocaust-Hitler analogy" to show how Palestine is a Nazi-sympathizers that wants to ruin their right to live as a Jewish homeland and an assailed nation. IV. Body 3: a. Topic Sentence ____________________________________________________________________ ___ The ongoing territorial conflicts between Israel and Palestine have been going on for more than a century. and even the United Nations is unable to resolve it. b. Supporting Sentences i. Evidence _____________________________________________________________________ __ Rasheed et al. (2022) declare that,"The rise of Jews with respect to the Palestinian Issue goes back to 1799 when Napoleon offered Jews, Palestine as a homeland. In 1822 a major incident happened in thus regard which was the establishment of Rishon Le Zion (A major Zionist Settlement) in Palestine...In 1907, Zionist leader Chaim Weizmann visited Palestine for the first time. This was the time when the conflict started to take its roots and Palestinian people stared opposing the Zionist colonization" ii. Why your evidence is important _____________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________________ c. Concluding Sentence _______________________________________________________________ __________________________________________________________________________________ V. Body 4: a. Topic Sentence ____________________________________________________________________