A Watershed in Retrospect (The Yom Kippur War Twenty Years On - RAK REKA No. 18)

Activity Ideas

PEACE

This activity can be transformed into a simulation exercies on party lines, or as a role play, using different positions on the issues.

It can also be run in the suggested, simpler format below.

1. Show the film, "Summer Time Blues", explaining that it relates to the War of Attrition, before the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
2. Review some of the film's leitmotifs, looking for commonality and differences between then and now, Israel and your own country.
3. a. How do you feel about Israel?
   b. What interests you about Israel?
   c. What concerns you about Israel?
4. a. Was the Yom Kippur War a threat to Israel's survival?
   b. Imagine what would have happened in Israel and the Diaspora if...
5. Why does Israel need Peace?
6. What price peace? What price security? See: Implications article.
   Divide into groups: role-play political platforms (not necessarily real ones) - with a mock demonstration, if you wish.
7. Review and discuss. Teach Israeli peace songs, differentiating between those from traditional sources, those written in 1967 and the ones associated with this war (See: Themesongs)

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