Israel-Palestine Conflict Review

Former leader of the PLO and the Al Fatah

Yasser Arafat

The Egyptians, Jordanians, and Syrians attacked the Israelis in 1967. The Israelis were able to take Jerusalem, the West Bank, and the Golan Heights. The land taken would be a reason for future conflicts

Six Day War

Yasser Arafat, President Bill Clinton, and Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin met to discuss the state of Israel and the territories taken in 1967. In the end this was not a success

Oslo Accords

Coordinating council for Palestinian organizations, founded (1964) by Egypt and the Arab League and initially controlled by Egypt. Composed of various guerrilla groups and political factions. Their goal is to "destroy the state of Israel”

PLO (Palestine Liberation Organization)

Egypt and Syria attack Israel on the holiest day of the Jewish calendar

Yom Kippur War

It was during this event in 1956 that the Egyptians cut off access to the port of Eilat to the Israelis

Sinai Campaign

The state of Israel was created in (what year)

1948

This war occured due to the United Nations and their decision to create the state of Israel

Arab-Israeli War

Military, political, and religious group based out of Gaza that refuses to negotiate peace with Israel

Hamas

Mandates

To assign (a colony or territory) to a specified nation (country)

Theodor Herzl

Father of Zionism

Zionism

An international movement originally for the establishment of a Jewish national religious community in Palestine

Kibbutz

A communal farm or settlement in Israel

Pogroms

An organized massacre or persecution of a minority group, especially one conducted against Jews in Russia

Anti-Semitism

Hatred of Jews

United Nations

This organization decided to partition Palestine into two separate states: a Jewish state and an Arab Palestinian state

Dispora

To disperse or scatter

Refugee

A person who flees to a foreign country or power to escape danger or persecution

McMahon Letter

The British promised the Arab people a homeland in Palestine

Balfour Declaration

The British promised the Jewish people a homeland in Palestine

Partition

To divide into parts or sections