Important Terms
Jews should actively take measures to move back to the land of their ancestors
What is Zionism?
The United Nations tried to create one state for Palestinians & one state for the Jews in Palestine in 1947
What is UNSCOP?
European nations met to split up Ottoman Empire before end of WWI. Secret agreement made during World War I between Great Britain and France
What is Sykes-Picot Agreement?
Lived there for centuries, there through Ishmael, Dome of the Rock, shouldn't be punished for the Holocaust which they didn't cause, can't inflict injustice on Arabs to solve injustice to Jews
What is Arab argument for Palestine?
In Israel, a strip of land on the west side of the Jordan River, originally controlled by Jordan, which is part of the land set aside for Arab Palestinians
What is West Bank?
Jews who lived outside of the land of Palestine have been exiled and forced to spread out throughout history.
What is Jewish Diaspora?
Administrative districts in Israel.
What is Mehozot?
A document issued by the British that supported the creation of a Jewish state as long as the rights of the Palestinians were protected.
What is Balfour Declaration?
In Israel 1st, forced out, Western Wall, there through Isaac, deserved a homeland after the Holocaust
What is Jewish argument for Palestine?
A territory along the Mediterranean Sea just northeast of the Sinai Peninsula; part of the land set aside for Palestinians, which was occupied by Israel in 1967.
What is Gaza Strip?
Religious Movement that argued that Jews would never receive emancipation in Eastern Europe and deserved a homeland
What is Autoemancipation?
The eastern Mediterranean region from western Greece to western Egypt.
What is Levant?
Policy paper issued by the British government that rejected the idea of partitioning the British Mandate in Palestine.
What is White Paper?
Palestinian Arab uprisings against the Israeli occupation
What is Intifadas?
Land taken by Israel 6 days War 1967 Golan Heights (Syria) West bank Jordan Sinai Peninsula and Gaza Strip Egypt
What is Occupied Territories?
Movement of Jews in 1881 in response to autoemancipation.
What is Aliyah?
British soldier sent to encourage Arabia to declare independence from the Ottomans
What is T.E. Lawrence?
Created Zionism in 1897
Who is Theoder Hertzl?
This attack, prompted by Egypt and other Arab nations, resulted in massive territorial gains for Israel including the Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights.
What is 1967 Six Day War?
A piece of land that is currently a part of Egypt but was a UN buffer zone from 1956-1966 and a part of Israel from 1967-1979
What is Sinai Peninsula?
Distinction between the Jews that were already in Palestine versus those who moved there as a result of Zionism.
What is Yishuv?
Palestinians would end the Intifada, Israel would begin withdrawing from the West Bank and Gaza, and that the PLO would have limited powers of self-government in parts of the territories
What is Oslo Accords?
Leader of Great Arab Revolt against the Ottomans, under the impression that the Arabs would receive lands from the british afterwards. Was quite angry when betrayed. Friend of Lawrence of Arabia
Who is Sharif Hussein?
Fought over the disputed land of Palestine and culminated in a Jewish victory. Referred to in Israel as the War of Independence, the war was a response by neighboring Arab nations to Israel's declaration of independence.
What is 1948 Arab-Israeli War?
A region that was formerly part of Southwest Syria that Israel has occupied since 1967 war.
What is Golan Heights?