Israel/Palestine – KHirn

Background
 History
 Palestine incorporated into Ottoman Empire from 1500s until 1917
 1878 population: 500,000 – 85% Muslim, 5% Jewish
 Zionism emerges as late 19th century movement that pushes Jews to return to Israel
o Religious fervor
o Political idealism
o Persecution in Europe
o New immigration restrictions in Europe/North America
 WWI breaks out in 1914
o Britain fights the Ottoman Empire in Palestine
o The Balfour Declaration of 1917 – Britain helped establish a Jewish national
home if they help fight in WWI
o Successive waves of migration increase the Jewish population in Palestine
 1947 – UN attempts to settle growing tensions by approving a compromise, giving a
large chunk of Israeli territory to Palestine
o Israel accepts
 Israel declares independence
o Bordering Arab states immediately attack
 Israel won the war for independence
o 700,000 Palestinians displaced
o Arab countries surrounding refuse entry to Palestinians
 “Peace Process”
 “Peace Process” – How to resolve Israel conflict in a sustainable wway
o Usually synonymous with “two-state solution”
 Barriers
o Jerusalem
o Palestinian Right of Return
o Security
o Settlements
 Palestine Today
 Severe restrictions on movement for residents of Gaza/West Bank
 Both are characterized by heavy policing; minimal access to education, employment, or
legal redress
 Gaza Blockade severely restricts import/export
 Arms Sales
 There was minimal US support for Israel in the early decades, but the “Special
Relationship” has emerged since the 70s
o Tons of diplomatic, cultural, economic, and military ties
 We’ve given the most military aid to Israel out of every country since WWII
 Quantitative Military Edge (QME)
o Every arms sales package we give to anyone else in the region must be able to
be defeated by Israel – this is law
 2016 MOU gives 38 billion in military aid to Israel over a 10 year period
 Offshore Procurement Program – Israel used money to buy from their own military
contractors
 Israel sells a lot of arms abroad and we don’t like that
 No China fill in da
 Recent Developments
 Trump strongly supports Israel
 Moved US embassy to Jerusalem
Debating Israel
 Direct Harms of Arms Sales
 Morality advantage
 Solvency args
o Political pressure that isolates Israel
o Israel military spending
 Problems of reading it unconditionally
 Not a lot of detailed solvency advocates
 Can’t solve all US-Israel ties
 Israel fill in
 US-Israel alliance DA
o The best DA to any version of the aff
o Strong uniqueness given trump
o 2 sets of impact module
 Lashout against Iran
 US-Israel relations
 Conditions CP
o More competitive than the usual conditions CP – If Israel says yes, it doesn’t
result in the plan – Beats PDCP because it keeps the status quo
o Usually conditioned on peace process objectives
o Many solvency authors link settlement
 Problems with conditions
 T
 Alliance DA
 Israel says no
 Diplomatic Pressure CP
 Set Col