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.
- Show the film, "Summer Time Blues", explaining that it relates to the War of Attrition, before the Yom Kippur War in 1973.
- Review some of the film's leitmotifs, looking for commonality and differences between then and now, Israel and your own country.
- a. How do you feel about Israel?
b. What interests you about Israel? c. What concerns you about Israel?
- a. Was the Yom Kippur War a threat to Israel's survival?
b. Imagine what would have happened in Israel and the Diaspora if...
- Why does Israel need Peace?
- 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.
- 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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