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Arab/Israeli Vocab
Arab/Israeli Conflict Vocabulary
Term | Definition |
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Ottoman Empire | defeated in WWI; land was partitioned by European powers |
partition | to divide into parts |
Promised Land | Jews believe that Abraham was promised the land of Israel by God |
Diaspora | Jews were kicked out of their land by the Romans |
Anti-Semitism | Hatred and discrimination towards Jews |
pogroms | organized attacks against Jews in Europe; began in the mid-1800s |
Zionism | movement to create a Jewish nation in Palestine |
Balfour Declaration | Britain stated that they supported the Jews desire for a homeland |
British Mandate | The British gained control of Palestine after the Ottoman Empire lost WWI |
Holocaust | murder of six million Jews during WWII |
United Nations | international organization formed in 1945 to increase political and economic cooperation among its member countries. |
U.N. Partition Plan | The United Nations voted to divide Palestine between Jews and Palestinians |