Arab-Israeli Conflict

How was Israel created?

• Great Britain partitioned Syria
• Israel invaded Palestine
• United Nations partitioned Palestine

How did Palestine’s Arab neighbors feel about Israel?

• They helped build walls around Israel
• They immediately began trading with Israel
• They refused to recognize Israel as a nation

What happened at the end of the war in 1949?

• More Arabs moved to Palestine
• Palestine gained land
• Palestine lost land

What is a refugee?

• A person who goes to jail for their political beliefs
• A person who leaves their country because of war
• A person who leaves their country because they are poor

What is a stateless person?

• A person who is not allowed to return to their own country
• A person who moves from one state to another
• A person whose country no longer exists

How did the Arab community respond to the UN Partition Plan?

• they rejected it & attacked Israel
• they rejected it & attacked Palestinians
• they accepted it
• they ignored it

Israel claims what location as its capital?

• Jerusalem
• Tel Aviv
• East Jerusalem
• West Bank

Arabs in the Arab-Israeli conflict refers to what ethnic group?

• Jews
• Christians
• Arab-Muslims
• Muslims

Israeli refers to which ethnic group in the Arab-Israeli conflict?

• Muslims
• Judas
• Jews
• Jordanians  

Who created the state of Israel in 1948?

• The British
• United States
• Arabs
• United Nations