White Paper Topics #2:



1. How did the 1977 elections in Israel be a watershed moment in social, economic, and political
spheres of influence?


2. How is Camp David Accords is a rational choice model of decision making.


3. Was the creation of NIS a good decision since it destroyed the socialist-democracy compact that
Israel was based upon in 1948 replacing it with a free-market capitalist model?


4. How does PH theory explain Menachem Begin’s agreement with Egypt at Camp David?


5. How the First Lebanon War created an external crisis for Israel and strained relations between
the Reagan administration and the Begin government?


6. Defend Operation Cast Lead to explain Olmert’s popularity?


7. Explain how American financial support for rebuilding the Israeli economy is an example of
rational choice theory.


8. Defend the decision to move the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem despite such a choice has been largely
criticized by the rest of the world.