Dartmouth Model United Nations

Israeli-Palestinian
Summit
April 10 - 12, 2015

D ARTM O U TH M ODEL U NITED N ATIO NS C ONFERENCE

Tenth Annual Conference

April 1 0 - 1 2 , 2 0 1 5

Dartmouth College 6048 Haldeman Center Hanover, NH 03755

(603) 306-6676 E-mail: dartmun@dartmouth.edu

February 21, 2015
Ridhima Gurnani
Secretary-General

Larry Liao
Director-General

William Jennings
Chief of Staff

Robert Scales
Charg dAffaires

Jordan Einhorn
Undersecretary-General of
General Assemblies

Kevin Zhang
Undersecretary-General of
Special Committees

Justin Roshak

Undersecretary-General of
Current Crisis Committees

Ksenia Ryzhova
Undersecretary-General of
Historical Crisis Committees

Joshua Koenig
Undersecretary-General of
Ad-Hoc Committees

Alanna Kane
Director of Public Relations

Adam Grounds

Director of Technology

Ruben Gallardo
Lopez

Dear Delegates:

Welcome to the tenth installment of DartMUN! We are confident that this years conference will be
the largest, most stimulating, and most rewarding in Dartmouths history. Our experienced staff has
worked relentlessly over the past few months to set up the framework for DartMUN X and to
ensure an educational simulation that cannot be replicated in a traditional classroom. Despite the best
efforts of our staff, each year, it is ultimately the delegates who are the drivers of political dialogue,
the sources of innovative ideas, and the ultimate reason for the conferences success. For this reason,
we a grateful and excited you have decided to join us in Hanover, NH.

With this said, Model United Nations is only meaningful when delegates are thoroughly prepared. To
aid in your research preparation, your committee staff has spent hours researching, writing, and
editing this Background Guide. The Background Guide serves as an introduction to your respective
committee and an overview of the topics that you will be debating over the course of the conference.

The Background Guide is intended to be a starting point for your research and is not, in itself, an
adequate exposure to the complexities of your committees topics. To be prepared, each delegate is
expected to do further research and focus on processing information through the lens of his or her
respective position. If you are having trouble digesting all the information, the Background Guide
contains relevant discussion questions that break down the topics. Also, as questions or ideas arise,
do not be shy in contacting your committee staff via e-mail. Committee directors are knowledgeable
and can help you better understand a particular topic or how your country fits into the larger
international debate. More often than not, discussing the issue at hand with someone else can
unearth paradigms and viewpoints that may guide you through the brainstorming process.

As in years past, all delegates are expected to write a brief position paper before the conference to
synthesize all of their preparatory research and analysis. Please see the position paper guidelines on
the conference website for specific information about content, format, etc. Committee staff will
collect position papers at the beginning of the first committee session on Friday evening, so be sure
to bring two hard copies. Delegates who do not submit position papers will not be eligible for
awards.

With this said, welcome to DartMUN X! I am excited to have the opportunity to engage with you
within your respective committees and gain valuable insights from the various ideas you each will bring
to our conference. I truly look forward to meeting you all in April!

Director of Finances

Sincerely,
Julia Pomerantz
Director of Philanthropy

Ridhima Gurnani
Secretary-General
DartMUN X

D ARTM O U TH M ODEL U NITED N ATIO NS C ONFERENCE

Tenth Annual Conference

April 1 0 - 1 2 , 2 0 1 5

Dartmouth College 6048 Haldeman Center Hanover, NH 03755

(603) 306-6676 E-mail: dartmun@dartmouth.edu

Ridhima Gurnani
Secretary-General

Larry Liao
Director-General

William Jennings
Chief of Staff

Robert Scales
Charg dAffaires

Jordan Einhorn
Undersecretary-General of
General Assemblies

Kevin Zhang
Undersecretary-General of
Special Committees

Justin Roshak

Undersecretary-General of
Current Crisis Committees

Ksenia Ryzhova
Undersecretary-General of
Historical Crisis Committees

Joshua Koenig
Undersecretary-General of
Ad-Hoc Committees

Alanna Kane
Director of Public Relations

Adam Grounds

Director of Technology

Ruben Gallardo
Lopez
Director of Finances

Julia Pomerantz
Director of Philanthropy

February 21, 2015

Dear Delegates:

Welcome to DartMUNs Committee on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict. Your
committee directors are Kelvin Chow and Mayer Schein. Kelvin is a freshman at
Dartmouth College, and is interested in a Biomedical Engineering Major with a
possible Computer Science minor. Mayer is a junior at Dartmouth College, studying
Computer Science and Economics with a minor in Religion.
The quality of this committee rests on the commitment and preparation of its
delegates. We encourage you to read this guide and use it, along with the provided
resources, to prepare for your sides debate. Please take note of the history of each
side and prepare your argument accordingly. This conflict has a very long and welldocumented history. Documents on preparation and procedure have also been
provided for your convenience.
This Special Committee will function pursuant to the regulations of parliamentary
procedure. The particulars of Special Committee procedure as well as the purview of
this committee will be explained during the opening session. Finally, should you have
any questions regarding topic, procedure, of otherwise, feel free to contact the dais.
We look forward to a fun and productive committee!
Sincerely,

Kelvin Chow and Mayer Schein
IPS Committee Chairs
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Committee Overview

What is a specialized committee?

At DartMUN, Special Committees are smaller
groups of delegates who assemble to discuss
specific topics that pertain to the countries that
the delegates represent. In Special Committees,
delegates may discuss past, present, or future
issues that are relevant to the primary focus of
the committee. Special Committees are thus
often characterized by their unique
composition of delegates and occasionally the
unique circumstances under which the
committees were created.

Situation Overview: Applicable to

Topics 1, 2, and 3
Introduction
Ever since its conception and formation in the
early 20th century, Israel has had an unstable and,
at times, violent relationship with Palestine and
its neighbors. Issues such as water rights, control
of Jerusalem, territorial disputes, and rights of
refugees have escalated into uprisings, terror
attacks, and military invasions, with both military
and civilian casualties on either side. Attempts to
broker peace have often been unsuccessful, and
in the rare cases that an agreement has been
reached, they have often been broken.
The conflict has had many examples of heinous
war crimes and human rights violations, which
have gradually embittered Israeli-Palestinian
relationships. Civilians are at great risk in this
conflict, as attacks have entangled bystanders
and displaced thousands of citizens on both
sides.
The ongoing disputes between Israel and
Palestine require action and resolution by the

UN because (1) the territorial disputes and

military actions of both sides have caused issues
with refugees and their rights (2) water sources
run between the two states and have been widely
disputed and (3) civilians, especially those living
at the boundary between the two states, are at
high risk.
Mandatory Palestine
Modern-day Israel contains a wide number of
holy sites that hold significant cultural and
religious importance to several world religions.
Having been conquered and settled by Jews,
Greeks, Byzantines, and Muslims, the region was
controlled by the Ottoman Turks by the end of
the 19th century.
On August 29th, 1897, hundreds of Jews came
together in Basel, Switzerland for the First
Zionist Congress in order to discuss the
formation of a Jewish state. They encouraged
immigration to the former home of the Jews,
modern-day Israel. As a result, tens of thousands
of Jews, mostly from Europe, immigrated to the
area.
After the First World War, the region was
occupied by Great Britain, and was called
Mandatory Palestine. Having helped overthrow
the Turks, the Arabs living in Mandatory
Palestine were promised independence.
In the years approaching, and especially during
World War II, Jewish immigration to Mandatory
Palestine exploded as anti-Semitic sentiments
and Jewish persecution began. This wave of
immigration created religious and cultural
tension, as the differing religions and the
weakening of Palestinian national identity
erupted into the Jaffa riots from May 1st-7th
1927, the 1929 Palestine riots from August 23rd29th, and the Arab revolt from 1936-1939, the
last of which called for United Kingdom to
suppress the rebellion.
During the Second World War, Palestinian

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leadership set up an alliance with German

leadership. In exchange for Palestinian
opposition to Great Britain and their allies,
Germany would ensure that a Jewish state would
not be created.
Jewish forces also rebelled against the
occupational British. The Jewish Resistance
Movement, formed because of British policy
limiting Jewish immigration into Mandatory
Palestine and limiting Jewish land ownership,
conducted several armed attacks and bombings,
culminating in the King David Hotel Bombing
of June 22, 1946.
Creation of a Jewish State and the PLO
At the end of World War II, the General
Assembly decided, through Resolution 181, to
separate Mandatory Palestine into three sections:
an independent Jewish state, an independent
Arab state, and the city of Jerusalem. While
neither the Jews nor native Arabs were
completely satisfied with the plan, it was
implemented on November 29th, 1947.
Almost as soon as the resolution was passed,
fighting began between Jewish and Arabic
peoples in a conflict known as the 1947-48 war.
Around 2,000 people, both Jewish and Arabic,
died in the violence, and around 4,000 suffered
injuries, as was estimated by a UN special
commission.
As the mandate for British occupation of
Palestine expired, a full-scale war resulted, in
which the countries constituting the Arab
League (Jordan, Syria, Egypt, Iraq, and Lebanon)
invaded the region. Jewish forces also began
taking territory allotted for both themselves and
the native Arabs. The Haganah, the main Jewish
military force, as well as smaller Jewish militant
groups Irgun and Lehi carried out operations on
Arab settlements, with Irgun and Lehi allegedly
massacring civilians at the settlement of Deir
Yassin, causing hundreds of thousands of
Palestinians (the native Arabs) to flee into the

neighboring states.
The war ended up in an Israeli victory, with
Israel taking almost all of the territory of former
Mandatory Palestine. The refugees, however,
were denied citizenship in most of the
neighboring Arab states and Israel, with the
exception of Transjordan (later to become part
of modern-day Jordan). Israel eventually offered,
in 1949, to allow for some refugees to return and
to free their bank accounts. However, this action
was rejected by the Arab states, as this would
involve recognizing Israel as an independent
state. As a result, many of these refugees still live
in refugee camps. Arabs in Israel were granted
citizenship, but were subject to martial law,
which was lifted in 1966. Many Jews in
neighboring Arab states were subject to
discrimination and insecurity, and fled to Israel.
Meanwhile, the governments of the Arab League
created the Palestinian Liberation Organization
in order to control the region. However,
Palestinian sentiment was for a more
independent government, free from the control
of the Arab League governments. This sentiment
was the goal of Yasser Arafat, who became the
chair of the PLO 1969. He also created a militant
organization, called Fatah.
The Six-Day War
From 1950-1957, in response to attacks on
civilian targets by the Jordanian Army, the newly
formed Fedayeen (Palestinians trained and
armed by the Egyptian army), and the amassing
of Egyptian forces in the Sinai Peninsula, Israel
launched a preemptive strike against Egypt in
what is now called the Six-Day War. Israel
captured the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, and
Jerusalem, of which they assumed sovereignty
(Jerusalem was originally separated into West
and East Jerusalem, with Israel controlling West
Jerusalem and Jordan controlling East
Jerusalem). Palestinian residents in East
Jerusalem were given Israeli citizenship.
However, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians

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were displaced because of the war, adding to the

already excessive number of refugees. At the end
of the war, the Security Council issued
Resolution 242, calling for Israeli withdrawal
from the newly occupied territories, an end to
the belligerence from both sides, and a definitive
solution to the refugee situation.
The Yom-Kippur War
Following their loss in the Six-Day War, Egypt
and Syria attempted to retake lost territory on
October 6, 1973 in a war later known as the
Yom Kippur War, named after the Jewish
festival that the attack started on. Advances were
made by Egyptian and Syrian forces in the first
few weeks, but they were eventually reversed,
and Israel advanced to the Suez Canal in the
west and into Syria in the east. Diplomatic
intervention by the UN (Resolution 338) called
for an end to the fighting and the establishment
of lasting peace between the belligerents.
Meanwhile, the PLO, having been expulsed to
Jordan and then Lebanon, launched an escalating
series of attacks on. However, on November 13,
1974, Yasser Arafat, the chair of the PLO,
appeared before the UN, condemning the
actions of the Israelis, but calling for a peaceful
solution to the conflict.
The Camp David Accords
On September 17, 1998, the Egyptian President
Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister
Menachem Begin signed the Camp David
Accords, a peace agreement that recognized
Israel as a sovereign nation, set forth autonomy
for Palestinians, and settled territorial disputes
between
Israel
and
Egypt.
Although
controversial among Arab states, the agreement
set forth a precedent for future peace in the
Middle East.
Peace for Galilee
In the summer of 1982, following the attempted
assassination of an Israeli ambassador by the
Palestinian group Abu Nidal, Israel invaded

Lebanon with the intention of destroying

Palestinian militant bases, like those of Abu
Nidal. However, the attack progressed further
than intended, and ended up pushing the PLO
out of Lebanon.
As PLO forces retreated from the country,
Israeli forces encircled the Sabra and Shatila
refugee camps. In one of the worst atrocities in
the history of the conflict, the Phalangists, a
group allied to Israel, massacred hundreds of
Palestinians in the two camps. As a result, the
defense minister to the Israeli forces, Ariel
Sharon, resigned from his post after it was
determined that he did nothing to prevent the
massacre.
The First Intifada
The first Intifada, or uprising, started on
December 8, 1987, and involved civil
disobedience, strikes, boycotts, and stonethrowing. Although the uprising was originally
spontaneous, the PLO eventually started to
organize the protests, coordinating attacks on
targets as well. Israeli Forces attempted to
suppress the uprising, resulting in over a
thousand deaths through the brutal methods
used to suppress the rebellions.
After the First Intifada, Palestinian leadership,
now exiled to Tunis, agreed to push for the
original UN partition plan (Resolution 181)
which called for a two-state solution to the
conflict. However, Israel refused to negotiate
with the PLO due to seeing it as a terrorist
organization. Instead, Israel called for election in
the occupied Palestinian territories before
beginning negotiations.
The Oslo Accords and the Second Intifada
In the Norway, starting on January 20, 1993,
Israeli and Palestinian leadership started
groundbreaking negotiations to make peace. In
return for Palestinian recognition of Israels right
to exist, Israel would begin withdrawal from

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occupation of occupied territories as laid out by

the original UN partition. Both sides agreed to
start working towards a two-state solution. A
self-governing body was also created in the
occupied Palestinian territories called the
Palestinian Authority. However, these accords
did not create a Palestinian state.
Following the Oslo Accords and the failure to
create a Palestinian State, the Second Intifada
started on September 28, 2000. The Second
Intifada was marked by numerous terror attacks
carried out mainly by Hamas, a Palestinian
militant organization. Israeli forces responded
with raids and arrests in the West Bank, a
majority-Palestinian area. A large barrier, called
the West Bank Fence, was also built in order to
deter attacks. At the end of the Second Intifada
in 2005, Israel decided to pull al forces out of
Gaza, ending occupation of the region.
The Rise of Hamas
The Palestinian elections of January 25, 2006
gave power to Hamas, resulting in a wave of
rocket and terror attacks. The previous party in
power, Fatah, struggled with Hamas, resulting in
a civil war called the Battle of Gaza from June
10-15, 2007 that resulted in a Hamas victory.
Increasing tensions between Israel and Gaza led
to the Gaza War from December 27, 2008 to
January 18, 2009.
Current Disputes
Currently, several issues stand in the way of
peace between Israel and Palestine. Before peace
can be found between the two countries,
solutions must be found for these disputes.
One especially sensitive topic is ownership of
Jerusalem and other religious sites, due to their
religious and cultural significance. The city of
Jerusalem is essential to Judaism, Christianity,
and Islam. The Camp David Summit of 2000
proposed to give Arab parts of Jerusalem to the
Palestinians, and to leave the rest to Israel.

Another major issue is the right of refugees.

Most of the refugees in Israel were displaced
through one of several territorial disputes with
Palestine and other neighboring countries. There
is a question of whether or not these refugees
have the right to return to Israel as citizens.
Water resources are also a matter of dispute
between the two parties. Originally, by the
Second Oslo Accord, water usage was to remain
at the current usage when the accord was signed.
However, a report by the UN concluded that
Israel settlements had confiscated water that
belonged to the Palestinians. According to
another UN report, Palestine will have a hard
time accessing enough water, due to the
population growing significantly faster than the
economy.

Topic 1: Status of Jerusalem

Following the establishment of the State of
Israel in 1948, the status of Jerusalem was very
vague. Israel claimed sovereignty, but so did
Jordan. Under Resolution 181, the United
Nations has stated that
The City of Jerusalem shall be established as a
corpus separatum under a special international
regime and shall be administered by the United
Nations.
Under this position, Jerusalem would become an
international territory, and the United Nations
would have sovereignty over it. Consequently,
the United Nations General Assembly does not
recognize Israels proclamation of Jerusalem as
the capital of Israel, and no country besides
Israel considers Jerusalem to be the capital of
Israel.
Following the Six Day War in 1967, Israel
extended its sovereignty to include Eastern
Jerusalem, and established new municipal

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borders with guaranteed freedom of access to

the holy sites for all religions. In July 1980, Israel
passed the Jerusalem Law, which declared
Jerusalem the unified capital of Israel.

Questions to Consider
1. Is it possible to negotiate a situation where
both Israel and Palestine claim sovereignty over
Jerusalem?

There have been six UN Security Council

resolutions that have denounced or declared
invalid Israels control of the city, and member
states have been advised to withdraw their
diplomatic representation from the city. The
official United Nations position is that East
Jerusalem is occupied territory subject to the
provisions of the Fourth Geneva Convention.

2. Should religious and historical significance

play a role in the discussion of the status of
Jerusalem?

The Palestinian National Authority (PNA) views

East Jerusalem as occupied territory according to
United Nations Security Council Resolution 242.
The Palestinian Authority position is that all of
East Jerusalem, including the Temple Mount, is
the capital of the State of Palestine, and the
status of West Jerusalem should be subject to
negotiations.
The Israeli position is that it acquired
sovereignty of West Jerusalem when it won the
War of Independence in 1948, and of East
Jerusalem when it won the Six Day War in 1967.
According to Israel, Jordan took control of East
Jerusalem illegally, via an act of aggression in
1948, and therefore never acquired sovereignty.
Since Israel conquered the territory in 1967
during a war of self-defense, it claims to have a
stronger basis for sovereignty over the land.
The Israeli position on Resolution 181 is that
when the Arabs rejected the resolution, it
became null and void, and the possibility of
Jerusalem being an international territory ended.
Almost all Prime Ministers of Israel have openly
announced that they refuse to divide Jerusalem,
and that Jerusalem will remain Israels undivided
and eternal capital, though they all agree that the
city should be open to people of all faiths.

3. What are the ramifications of Israel claiming

sovereignty over Jerusalem while the rest of the
world refuses to recognize it?

Topic 2: Right of Return

In December 1948, the United Nations General
Assembly Resolution 194 determined:
That the refugees wishing to return to their
homes and live at peace with their neighbors
should be permitted to do soand that
compensation should be paid for the property
for those choosing not to return and for loss of
or damage to property.
In 1967, following the Six-Day War, another
Palestinian exodus occurred. Between 280,000
and 350,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled
from the West Bank, the Gaza Strip, and the
Golan Heights. Among them were an estimated
120,000 to 170,000 refugees from the first war,
fleeing for the second time.
In November 1974, United Nations General
Assembly Resolution 3236 declared the right of
return to be an inalienable right.
Many Palestinians believe in an inherent right of
return to the land that their ancestors owned
and lived on prior the establishment of the State

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of Israel in 1948. They therefore believe that any

peace agreement should be grant them full
Israeli citizenship. Following Resolution 194,
many Palestinians have argued that Israel is
bound under international law to accept a full
Palestinian right of return.
Other Palestinian leaders point out what they
see as a massive injustice the fact that Jews
from around the world are allowed to immigrate
to Israel, and become full citizens, under Israels
Law of Return, even if their ancestors did not
live there. Palestinians, who cannot apply for
citizenship nor return to the territory that their
ancestors live on, view this as a discriminatory
policy.
The traditional Israeli viewpoint is that Arab
leaders are the ones who told Palestinians to
evacuate their homes when the neighboring
Arab countries initiated the war in 1948.
Opponents of the Palestinian Right of Return
argue that the Palestinian refugees left on their
own, and Israel has no obligation to them.
Additionally, they argue that international law
does not have the authority to demand
repatriation of refugees and their descendants.
This severely limits the power of international
legislation, as well as United Nations
resolutions,
downgrading
them
to
recommendations rather than law.
In recent years, Israelis have responded to
Palestinian complaints by demanding that Jews
who were displaced from Arab countries during
the two wars also be granted a right of return, or
at least compensation. Bringing this issue to
light has made the negotiations even more
complicated.

Questions to Consider
1. Can there be a peace treaty between Israel
and the Palestinians that does not grant either
side the right of return? Can they simply cancel
each other out?
2. Should the right of return be limited to
granting citizenship, or should people be
allowed to return to the actual land they left
behind?
3. If you leave on your own, are you entitled to
the land you leave behind? Does being expelled
make you entitled to return to that land?
4. There were 750,000 Palestinian refugees, but
their descendants add up to over 5 million
people. Should they all be included in the right
of return?

Topic 3: Water Rights

The primary source of water in the area that
borders Israeli and Palestinian territory is a
number of springs that are fed by the Mountain
Aquifer, which is located under both Palestine
and Israel. Israels water resources include the
Sea of Galilee, a large freshwater lake, water
from the Jordan River, reclaimed water,
desalinated water from the ocean, and water
from the Mountain Aquifer. Most of Palestines
water comes from the Mountain Aquifer.
As Israel has continued to settle into Palestine,
disagreements over the rights over water springs
in the area have continued to occur. The Oslo
Accords set water usage of the Mountain

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Aquifer as the amount that was currently used

by both sides at the time, and restricted the
drilling of new wells. However, Israeli
settlements have continuously claimed wells,
reducing the amount of water available to
Palestinians.
Almost all Palestinians believe that these wells
are rightfully theirs. This is partially due to the
belief that Israeli settlements into Gaza are
illegal due to previous agreements on land
partitions, and that Israeli water usage is a
violation of human rights of their people.
Israelis believe that their water usage has not
changed since the agreement, since rainfall has
been reduced in the region that feeds into the
Mountain Aquifer. They believe that they use
the amount of water agreed upon in the Oslo
Accords.

Questions to Consider
1. Has Israel violated previous water
agreements by claiming wells in Gaza? Is the
water necessary for the settlers?
2. Is there a solution that can be found that
fairly gives water to both sides?
3. Does the West Bank Barrier claim water that
rightfully belongs to Palestine?

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UN Resolution 3236 (Bottom Left Section)

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