Lesson Summary:

The first of five lessons that provide an Historical Perspective on the Arab-Israeli Conflict and Peace Process, lesson I focuses on the “Context and Background to Understanding Arab-Israeli Relations.”
A comprehensive guide provides information and activities with the following purposes:

• To situate a modern conflict in its historical, cultural, and geographic context 
• To derive information from maps and relate to potential challenges affecting resources and trade 
• To determine the meaning of words and phrases used in a text
• To determine the central ideas or information of a secondary source