Palestinian-Israeli help

[ennierda]

Help educate young minds (and Janet) about the Palestinian-Israeli crisis: suggest a few websites explaining what all the fighting is about!

Well. Obviously I know the basics. I could be better informed on more of the fine details, but that's difficult when most of the sites out there are all "KILL ALL THE JEWS!1!" or "KILL ALL THOSE PALESTINIAN TERRORISTS!1!!" I'd like to find at least one, POV-neutral (as much as is possible) source that is NOT Wikipedia that explains a little modern history. Possibly two newspaper op-eds, one arguing for each side, would also be helpful, but finding historical explanations of the conflict are my highest priority.

I've got this, but it's more focused on the last five years, with the creation of modern Israel reduced to a mere paragraph:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7818022.stm

What I envision for the lesson is we talk a little about what the kids know about the conflict from listening to the news, and then I give them a worksheet that has some questions and a map on it (I have a line map of modern Israel from earlier years), and we move to the computer lab where they use the websites that I have already vetted to find the answers to the questions.

Please keep in mind that these are 14-year-old high school freshmen.

Comments

[megasus4.livejournal.com]

As a Catholic school, are you supposed to shy away from the idea that it boils down, at some level, to Pope Urban's fault in 1095, who used precisely the same PR tactic as bin Laden?

[ennierda.livejournal.com]

Nobody cares what I tell them as long as it's not illegal. The other religion teacher is openly living with her fiance.