IRL 19

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7381364.stm

BBC New Story depicting a Israel time line

We just finished studying the 6 Day War, this seems like a continuation of the fighting between Israel and the Arab Nations surrounding it. It also depicts Israels invasion like attacks without truly thinking it through the consequences such as looking cruel.

It enhances what I've already learned because besides the 6 Day War this event also makes Israel look bad and feel sympathy for the Arab states because Israel is doing this too them. Usually what we've seen is Arabs trying to destroy Israel for the good of Palestinians but here it is not the case.

Limitations faced with this document is its bias because it says that the Palestine guerrilla fighters were in Lebanon after being expelled though giving no further detail but sparing no details on making the Israel's look bad and the true aggressors in this situation.

"CME" Key Questions 45-50

1) By the end of 1949 700,000 Jews total, the ones whom were in the army were trained. They set up kibbutzim's which the Jewish immigrants worked and lived on co-operative farms in which everything was shared. With aid from USA and reparations from Germany Israel was able to irrigate and cultivate the land. In the 1950s and 60s Israel became very industrialized.

2) The Fatah were apart of Lebanon, Syria, Jordan they were also apart of the PLO which explicitly said they were going to eliminate Israel since it was really Palestinian land. The Fatah had raids on the Israeli's which enraged Israel to attack them back. Syria however added to this by supplying men and weapons to the Fatah in order for them to attack Israelis.

3) I think the USSR has a little blame in the war because they told the surrounding Arab states that Israel was planning a attack which was not the case. Also Egypt and all the Arab states which moved troops in dangerously close towards Israel, Nasser had the UN troops removed from the Sinai as well meaning they share part of the blame. Also Israel shares blame in the war because they decided to strike pre-emptively in fear that it would be a repeat of 1948, the air force decided to destroy the air fields of the other countries on June 5th before they'd be able to all attack Israel.

IRL 18

http://www.bbc.co.uk/ethics/war/just/preemptive.shtml

Website

BBC

It connects to what we are doing in class because we see first hand how the world saw the pre-emptive strike by Israel and we also see the ethics and essential consequences of pre-emptive strikes.

It enhances because the article/website gives up the ethics of problems and solutions with pre-emptive strike. I also feel it enhances what we learned because we get a pretty good example which seems bias free giving the explanation to both the Arabs and the Israeli's but in this case.

The limitations of this article/website are it is essentially bias because it takes a side blaming the Israeli's because it talks about how some think its justifiable for their strike against the Egypt when Egypt hadn't made any attack on them first.