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What was the conflict in israel

• the united nations were giving the jew the persains land
• the united nations was giving the Arab's the Jews land
• the united nations was giving the Jews the Arabs land
• The united nations was given the Persains the Arabs land

what is one effect of the Syke's Picot agreement

• Both men betrayed the Arabs which created more conflict.

• ISIS's conflict on 9/11

• the Jews giving the Arabs land after conflict.

• Britain and France giving the UN a mandate.

How did the United Nations influence the partitioning of the Middle East?

• They had an interest in oil, so they supported into splitting countries with equal oil.

• They wanted minimum conflict, so they allowed the Middle East to be divided by religious and ethnic groups.

• They voted to allow a Jewish state of Israel, taking away Palestinian Arab land

• They had an agreement with Britain, France, and the Arabs, so they divided territories for those countries

What is the MAIN cause of the conflict between the Jews and the Arabs?

• The Sykes-Picot Agreement
• The United Nations' decision to divide the area
• Palestinians did not agree to divide the lands
• The Arabs have Jewish people portrayed badly in their religion

What religious and ethnic groups are fighting and why?

• Jews and Kurds because of land.
• Kurds and Arabs because of power.
• Jews and Palestinians because of land
• Jews and Arabs because of power.

How did the work of Sykes and Picot agreement effect modern Middle East?

• It lead to conflict between ethnic and religion groups.
• It lead to the Arabs having no homes
• It lead to the Jews destruction
• It lead to the ottoman empire collapse

Europeans created artificial borders in the Middle East causing conflict between ethnic and religious groups. How were Europeans able to partition the land?

• Europeans persecuted Jews through the Holocaust

• Europeans won land from the Ottoman Empire concluding WWI

• Jews were forced to leave by the Romans in the Diaspora

• Immigrants moved to Palestine after WWII

What would be the BEST title for the image?

• Kurdish Dream for Homeland

• Country of the Kurds

• Partial Control of Kurdish territories

• Mesopotamia

Why did the European Partitioning under the Sykes-Picot agreement cause conflict?

• Other European nations were upset they did not acquire more territory.

• The French disagreed with the British on which land to mandate.

• Countries were allowed to maintain wealth of natural resources.

• Europeans ignored historical and religious/ethnic borders.

Sunni & Shia conflict in Iraq and Syria

Kurdish nationalism

Israeli Jew & Palestinian Arab Conflict

Which THEME unites the items above?

• US Involvement in the Middle East

• Land & Religion conflicts in the Middle East

• Conflicts prior to WWI

• Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust