Map: Akwisombe, Lilian. "Arms Trump Words in Middle East."
Christian Science Monitor. 5 Aug. 2002
<http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0805/p06s01-wome.html>.

"STRIKE AND COUNTERSTRIKE:

Israel's killing of Hamas
militant Saleh Shehadeh -
and 14 others,
mostly women
and children
- is seen by many
observers as the
proximate
cause of yesterday's
extensive Middle East fighting."

Barr, Cameron W. "Arms Trump Words in Middle East." Christian Science Monitor. 5 Aug. 2002 <http://www.csmonitor.com
/2002/0805/p06s01-wome.html>.

I. ISRAEL-PALESTINE PLAY

II. HISTORICAL DOCUMENTS AND ACCOUNTS

1. "The Partition of Palestine: Resolution 181", 1947

2. "The Proclamation of Israel's Independence: 14 May, 1948 (Tel Aviv)

3. "Statement by Arab League Following Establishment of Israel." May, 1948

4. "War of 1948-49"

5. "GA Reiterates Positions"
5b. "242/338" (1967)
5c. "53/196" (1999)
5d. French statements, 2000

6. "Israeli-Palestinian Accord"
6b. "Illegal Israeli Actions in Occupied East Jerusalem and the Rest of the Occupied Palestinian Territory: GA Resoltuion ES-1014, adpted in 1997"
6c. "Israel, the Occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, and Palestinian Authority Territories Human Rights Developments Defending Human Rights The Role of the International Community." Human Rights Watch. 2000. 11 Aug. 2002 <http://www.hrw.org/wr2k2/mena5.html>.

III. EDITORIALS and NEWS ARTICLES

7. "God's City: a history of Jerusalem"
("God's City." US News and World Report. 18 Dec. 1995)

8. "A Process of Peace."
(Rabin, Yitzak. "A Process of Peace."Presidents and Prime Ministers. July/August, 1995.)

9. "How the Facts can Contradict the Story." (Amiel, Barbara. "How the Facts can Contradict the Story." Maclean's. 13 May 1996.)

10.

11. "Politics - Middle East" (defunct site from 1998)

IV. WHAT THE ISRAELIS SAY

12. Myths and Facts

13. "History: The State of Israel [and The State of Israel, 1997]
(defunct site once at "History: The State of Israel." Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 22 March 1998 <http://www.israel-mfa.gov.il/facts/hist/fhist5.html>.)

14. Permanent Mission of Israel to the UN:
a) Facts and b) Position regarding Negotionations with Palestinians

V. PERSPECTIVES: ULTRA RIGHT

15. NewsMax.com

16.

17.

18.

VI. WHAT THE PALESTINIANS SAY

19. 20 Zionist Myths Exposed

20. "20 Basic Facts about the Palestine Problem"

21. Middle East History
(Neff, Donald. "Middle East History:It Happened in March." The Washington Report on Moddle East Affairs, Vol. 15, No. 7, March, 1997.)

22. Eqbal Ahmad

23. Arab American Media Oasis: Have fun here. Dedicated to humor, but if you scroll down, other fact-based investigative-type articles are present (like the one on how The Likud helped establish Hamas).

VII. PERSPECTIVES: ULTRA LEFT

23. The Progressive

24. "The Pains of Peace"
(Rabin, David. "The Pains of Peace." The Progressive. May 2002. 6 Aug. 2002 <http://www.progressive.org/May%202002/rab0502.html>.)

25. "I Won't Serve in Your Army."
(Kidron, Peretz. "I Won't Serve in Your Army." The Progressive. May 2002, pages 20-21.)

26. "We've All Been Irrevocably Changed, and Not for the Better."
(Prince-Gibson Eetta. ""We've All Been Irrevocably Changed, and Not for the Better." The Progressive. May 2002, pages 22-23)

27. "Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine's Poet of Exile."
(Handal, Nathalie. "Mahmoud Darwish: Palestine's Poet of Exile." The Progressive. May 2002, pages 24-26. 6 Aug. 2002 <http://www.progressive.org/May%202002/hand0502.html>.)

VIII. WASMUN 2001 POSITION PAPERS

28. "Palestinian Refugees"

29. "Water Rights"

IX. WEB SITES

Palestinian Sympathetic Websites

1. Islamic Organization for Palestine
2. The Electronic Intifada
3. Applied Research Institute, Jerusalem
4. Palestinian Website List (all- including gov)
5. European Institute for Research
6. The Daily Herald: Read editorials ("Columnists" by Ray Hanania

Israeli Sympathetic Websites

1. Israel Ministry of Foreign Affairs

WASMUN recommends following sites:

3. League of Arab States
4. haynese.winthrop.edu
5. atlasgeo.span.ch/fotw/flags/las.html
6. www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/mideast/arableag.htm
7. www.kartes.lv

Internationally Recognized

1. Christian Science Monitor: recognized as most unbiased site
2. New York Times
3. Newsweek
4. Time

X. ASSIGNMENT - See Chapters 4 and 5
1. Pick a country from the Country List
2. Write a resolution about the Middle Eastern Situation
3. Resolution from class chosen
4. Write a policy statement and speech
5. Rubric

Past MUN Resolutions on Israel
1. Recognition of Palestine and Admission to GA
2. Jerusalem as an International City
3. Removal of Israeli Settlements