Israel the Arab+Muslim World

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

The Societal, Political and Security Implications of Israel's Relations with the Arab and Muslim World. This course will undertake a broad review of Israel's relations with the Arab and Muslim World in four modules. The first will review the development of Israel's relations with Arab and Muslim majority countries in the Middle East and North Africa, from the pre-state period through the major military confrontations of 1948, 1957, 1967 and 1973. It will then look the implications of the peace treaty with Egypt as well as Israel's wars in Lebanon and confrontation with the PLO. The second will look more internally at the implications of Jewish immigration from the Middle East and North Africa on the state formation process, the state's approaches to its non-Jewish minority populations as well as the Palestinian population in the occupied territories (Gaza and the West Bank). The third module will take a closer look at the development of relations between Israel, Egypt, Jordan, Turkey, and Iran. During the last module, students will study the impact of recent political changes in the Middle East. Specifically, they will evaluate what the end of the Cold War, the Arab Spring, and the Abraham Accords have meant for both Israel's diplomatic relations in the region and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.