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(DMS) Israel
The Middle East after World War II.
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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. |