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(DMS) Israel
The Middle East after World War II.
Question | Answer |
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Palestine | The area of the Middle East which includes the country of Israel, the historic home of the Jews. |
Zionism | A Jewish nationalist movement that had the objective of a Jewish state. |
diaspora | The expulsion of people from their homeland |
Jews | People that are either part of the ethnic group Jew or have faith in the religion Judaism. |
Judaism | The oldest monotheistic religion, originating in the Middle East. |
United Nations | An international organization that focuses on peace between countries. |
World War II | A war that involved many countries around the world, begun after German aggression in Europe. |
Palestinian | An Arab that lives in Palestine. |
PLO | Palestinian Liberation Organization. |
settlements | A Jewish community in the occupied territory of the West Bank |
partition | To separate. |
West Bank | The west bank of the Jordan river, taken from Trans-Jordan in a war in the 1960's and occupied by Israel. |
Gaza Strip | Occupied territory that belonged to Egypt until Israel took it in war in the 1960's. |
Palestinian Territory | Territory in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip controlled by the Palestinian Authority. |
Camp David Accords | An agreement between Egypt and Israel, where Egypt recognized Israel as a country and Israel returned the Sinai Peninsula. |
Theordore Herzl | The author of the Zionist movement in Europe in the late 1800's. |
Israel | Country formed in the land of Palestine after World War II as a Jewish state. |