Nationalism in the Middle East

A movement founded in the 19th century to promote the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

• Zionism

• imperialism

• Islam

• Judaism

A 1917 statement by British foreign secretary Arthur Balfour that supported the idea of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.

• Zimmerman Telegram

• Balfour Declaration

• Declaration of Independence

• Magna Carta

The Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, beginning in 1987

• Camp David Accords

• Zionism

• Intifada

• Six Day War

Greek for "dispersion," a term that refers to the dispersion of Jews away from Palestine into other parts of the Mediterranean, beginning with the Babylonian conquests in the sixth century B.C.E.

• Palestinian Liberation Organization

• pogrom

• Zionism

• Diaspora

Area of eastern Mediterranean land seized by Israel in the Six-Day War. Palestinian territory bordered by Israel and Egypt.

• Gaza Strip

• West Bank

• Golan Heights

• Jerusalem

In Israel, a strip of land on the west side of the Jordan River, originally controlled by Jordan, which is part of the land set aside for Arab Palestinians.

• West Bank

• Gaza Strip

• Golan Heights

• Sinai Peninsula

A 1978 peace agreement, led by President Jimmy Carter,t between Israel's Prime Minister, Menachim Begin and Egypt's, Anwar Sadat. Egypt agreed to establish diplomatic relations between Israel and Egypt in exchange for the return of the Sinai Peninsula from Israel.

• Oslo Accords

• Camp David Accords

• Atlantic Charter

• Munich Aggrement

a self-governing state

• autonomy

• protectorate

• naval base

• sattelite nation

A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to escape war, persecution, or natural disaster

• dissident

• nomad

• refugee

• dictator

The Israeli prime minister that signed the Camp David Accords with Anwar Sadat and Jimmy Carter in 1979

• Yitzhak Rabin

• Menachem Begin

• Anwar Sadat

• David Ben-Gurion