Key Events
This 1917 statement supported a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
What is the Balfour Declaration?
This city is important to Jews, Muslims, and Christians.
What is Jerusalem?
A long-term disagreement between groups.
What is a conflict?
This group identifies Israel as their homeland.
Who are Israelis?
This is a key reason the conflict began.
What is competing claims to land?
This 1947 plan proposed dividing land into Jewish and Arab states.
What is the UN Partition Plan?
This territory is located between Israel and Egypt.
What is the Gaza Strip?
People forced to leave their homes.
What are refugees?
This group seeks a Palestinian state.
Who are Palestinians?
This group governed Palestine before 1948.
Who were the British?
This year Israel officially became a state.
What is 1948?
This larger Palestinian territory is located west of the Jordan River.
What is the West Bank?
Control over a territory by a military force.
What is occupation?
This term refers to understanding different viewpoints.
What is perspective?
This war followed the creation of Israel.
What is the 1948 Arab–Israeli War?
This war in 1967 lasted six days and changed territorial control.
What is the Six-Day War?
This issue involves where people live and control of land.
What is settlements (or land disputes)?
A temporary stop to fighting.
What is a ceasefire?
This explains why different groups interpret events differently.
What is bias or differing experiences?
This issue involves control of holy sites.
What is religious significance/conflict over Jerusalem?
These agreements in the 1990s aimed to create peace between Israel and Palestinians.
What are the Oslo Accords?
This term describes control over borders and governance.
What is sovereignty?
A peaceful agreement to end conflict.
What is a peace treaty?
This skill involves comparing two viewpoints.
What is analyse (or compare perspectives)?
This describes why the conflict continues today.
What are unresolved land, political, and security issues?