Israeli and Palestine Conflict

Question 1

Israel

Answer 1

located on land that links West Asia to North Africa

-established under David

Question 2

Canaan-

Answer 2

land of Israel, Promise land

Question 3

Canaanites

Answer 3

first people to live in Canaan

Question 4

Abraham

Answer 4

given Canaan by God as Promise land

Question 5

Abraham descendants

Answer 5

Israelites

Question 6

Philistines

Answer 6

indo-european people

-lived along Mediterranean coast of Israel

Question 7

Palestine

Answer 7

• land of Philistines
• named after the Philistines
• currently occupied by Israel

Question 8

United Monarchy

Answer 8

• refers to Israel under reign of David (1000 b.c)
• northern and southern region
• northern region falls to Assyrians
• southern region falls to Babylonians

Question 9

Romans

Answer 9

general Pompey incorporated Palestine into Roman empire

• Drove out the Jewish from Rome and spread them across the middle east
• 70 A.D. Romans destroyed Jewish temple in Jerusalem

Question 10

Diaspora

Answer 10

scattering

Question 11

1000 A.D

Answer 11

Israel takes on Arab identity

Question 12

1516

Answer 12

Ottomans take over Palestine

Question 13

Zion

Answer 13

poetic name for Jerusalem, pre-Canannite word

-means all of Jerusalem, all of Palestine

Question 14

Zionism

Answer 14

return of Jews to promise land, rooted in Hebrew scriptures

Question 15

Practical zionism

Answer 15

Jews settling in Promise Land, practicing agriculture and practicing religion in Promise land
-emigration into Palestine (began in 1881)

Question 16

Political zionist

Answer 16

create Jewish state in Palestine=goal

Question 17

Alfred Dreyfus

Answer 17

captain in french military, was accused as being an agent for Germans

Question 18

Henzl

Answer 18

believed Jews should have home of their own

Question 19

Der Judenstaat (1896)

Answer 19

book by Herzl that talked about how political zionism could take place

Question 20

1917 Balfour Declaration

Answer 20

letter written by James Balfour to Lord Rothschild that British will support promise of Palestine land to Jews

Question 21

Mandate

Answer 21

allowed European Jews to come into Palestine

-British in charge of allowing immigration of Jews into Palestine

Question 22

Theodor Herzl

Answer 22

1860-1904
Jewish journalist and founder of the Zionist movement
urging the creation of a Jewish national homeland in Palestine

Question 23

Lord Rothschild

Answer 23

-British lord that James Balfour wrote letter to regarding Jewish settlement

Question 24

1894 Dreyfus Affair

Answer 24

Jewish french military guy was accused as being an agent for Germans, even though he wasn’t. people shocked that loyal French Jew, who was loyal state and served in military, didn’t receive fair trial and instead became the victim of anti-Jewish hatred. Evidence for Theodor Herzl to think that assimilation was no defense against antisemitism… Zionism and the creation of a Jewish State is only solution to the problem of antisemitism.

Question 25

Oslo accord 1993

Answer 25

agreement signed between Israel prime minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO - both side agreed to an establishment of a Palestinian Authority to govern West Bank and Gaza Strip - never successfully implemented

Question 26

Hamas

Answer 26

Palestinian Islamist political organization and militant group that has waged war on Israel since the group's 1987 founding, most notably through suicide bombings and rocket attacks. It seeks to replace Israel with a Palestinian state.

Question 27

May 14, 1948

Answer 27

declared state of Israel

Question 28

1897 World Zionist Congress

Answer 28

Theodor Herzl ran this. Symbolic parliament for the small minority[8] of Jewry in agreement with the implementation of Zionist goals -Held in Basel, Switzerland

Question 29

Israel-Palestine Conflict

Answer 29

fight over land that one side claims to be theirs - origin of conflict dates back to Zionist movement in early 20th century - Jews began settling in Palestine where Jews were living - those already inhabiting the area= Palestinians (i believe they're Arabic??)

Question 30

Deir Yassin

Answer 30

a village near Jerusalem where Zionist terrorists killed women and children -premeditated attack meant to encourage Palestinians to flee

Question 31

War of Independence

Answer 31

israel beat countries (like egypt and iraq) and became its own independent nation

Question 32

Nakba

Answer 32

when Palestinians fled after Israel independence

Question 33

Yasir Arafat

Answer 33

first leader of Palestinian Authority | -notoriously corrupt

Question 34

1967 War

Answer 34

Israel captured Gaza, West bank, Golan Heights, and Sinai

Question 35

Occupied Territories

Answer 35

-include West Bank, East Jerusalem, Gaza Strip, and Golan Heights

Question 36

Sinai

Answer 36

Given back to Egypt after 1967 War

Question 37

Black September

Answer 37

1970 | -11 Israeli athletes were killed during Olymipics

Question 38

Golan Heights

Answer 38

recognized as Syrian territory, bu occupied by Israel