CONFLICT IN ISRAEL
AND PALESTINE
The First Intifada
WERE THE ISRAELIS JUSTIFIED IN THE USE OF FORCE IN THE
FIRST INTIFADA?
ISRAELI
PERSPECTIVE
It was Israel’s responsibility
to maintain order
Source 1: Extract from ‘The Uprising: Causes and Consequences’ by Gail
Pressberg, Journal of Palestine Studies, 1988
ISRAELI
PERSPECTIVE
It was Israel’s responsibility
to maintain order
Source 2: Palestinian barricades during the First Intifada
PALESTINIAN
PERSPECTIVE
Israel was an occupying
force that illegally seized
land from Palestinians
Source 3: Map
comparing the UN-
proposed Israeli
State, to the land
seized by Israel
PALESTINIAN
PERSPECTIVE
Israel was an occupying
force that illegally seized
land from Palestinians
Source 4: Swedish peacekeepers are forced to flee from Hill 88
near Gaza due to Israeli strikes on the area in 1967
ISRAELI
PERSPECTIVE
The uprising was driven by
radical Islamists, not
civilians
Source 5: Extract from the Covenant of Hamas, 1988
ISRAELI
PERSPECTIVE
The uprising was driven by
radical Islamists, not
civilians
Source 6: Extract from ‘The Iran Primer: Power, Politics and US
Policy’, R. Brandenburg, 2010
PALESTINIAN
PERSPECTIVE
It was a peaceful protest to
improve Palestinians’ lives
Source 7: Palestinian woman protests the actions of IDF soldiers
in 1987
PALESTINIAN
PERSPECTIVE
It was a peaceful protest to
improve Palestinians’ lives
Source 8: IDF soldier requesting a resident of Jabalia to erase a
slogan on a wall during the First Intifada, February 1988
ISRAELI
PERSPECTIVE
Palestinian grievances were
not a result of Israeli actions
Source 9: President Jimmy Carter shaking hands with Egyptian
President Anwar Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin
at the signing of the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty in the grounds of
the White House, 26 March 1979
ISRAELI
PERSPECTIVE
Palestinian grievances were
not a result of Israeli actions
Source 10: Extract about the frustrations felt by Palestinians after
Israel and Egypt signed a peace treaty, effectively bringing the role
of Egypt in the Palestinian cause to an end. From ‘Palestine and
Israel: The Uprising and Beyond’, D. McDowell, 1989.
PALESTINIAN
PERSPECTIVE
Israel deprived Palestinians
of any political expression
Source 11: Extract of IDF Order 101 restricting the freedom of
expression for Palestinians
PALESTINIAN
PERSPECTIVE
Israel deprived Palestinians
of any political expression
Source 12:
Extract from a
Palestinian Folk
Poem
ISRAELI
PERSPECTIVE
Palestinians had benefitted
from Israeli rule
Source 13: Table showing the economic growth in the
Occupied Territories in 1970-1980
ISRAELI
PERSPECTIVE
Palestinians had benefitted
from Israeli rule
Source 14: Entry in the Jewish Virtual Library on education and
school closures in the West Bank during the First Intifada
PALESTINIAN
PERSPECTIVE
Israel damaged the
economic development of
Palestinian areas
Source 15: Former and future Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak
Rabin in the Jerusalem Post, 15 February 1985
PALESTINIAN
PERSPECTIVE
Israel damaged the
economic development of
Palestinian areas
Source 16: Extract from ‘Development Under Adversity: The
Palestinian Economy in Transition’, Edited by Ishac Diwan and
Radwan A. Shaban Palestine Economic Policy Research Institute
(MAS) and the World Bank
ISRAELI
PERSPECTIVE
The uprising was not
supported by most
Palestinians
Source 17: Extract from the Summary of: B'Tselem report:
"Collaborators in the Occupied Territories: Human Rights Abuses and
Violations", January 1994
ISRAELI
PERSPECTIVE
The uprising was not
supported by most
Palestinians
Source 18: Extract from ‘Righteous Victims: a History of the Zionist-
Arab conflict, 1881–1999’, by Benny Morris, 1999
PALESTINIAN
PERSPECTIVE
The IDF radicalised
Palestinians and damaged
Israel’s reputation
Source 19:
Casualty figures
for the First
Intifada
PALESTINIAN
PERSPECTIVE
The IDF radicalised
Palestinians and damaged
Israel’s reputation
Source 20: UN Security Council Resolution 607, issued in
1988 to address violations of previous UN resolutions and
Geneva Code laws
