The Arab Israeli Conflict

This comprehensive course explains the early causes of the Arab Israeli conflict in the Middle East throughout history. The course teaches you both sides' viewpoints and ideologies in addition to wars and negotiations and how they formed new maps several times.

University students who study international relations, world history, political sciences, or Arabic language will find the course useful for them and it will enrich students' knowledge about the Middle East region.

The course is divided into three main parts. The first part, Roots of Conflict, examines precisely the deeply rooted religious causes of the conflict between Muslims and Jews. The second part, The Everlasting Wars, discusses the major wars between Arabs and Israelis and how these wars forced both sides to draw and demolish geopolitical borders multiple times.

The third and last part, The Impossible Compromise, learners get to know the current geopolitical situation in the Middle East, and stages of negotiations and wars between both sides in the modern era.

The course covers the Arab-Israeli conflict from the early beginning throughout human history to the announcement of United States president Donald Trump Jerusalem as a capital city of Israel.

The course contains an Arabic article and Arabic videos for advanced Arabic learners, but mainly the course is designed to acquaint zero-knowledge learners and anyone interested in Middle Eastern politics with essential facts and information about the Arab-Israeli conflict.