Israel and Palestine

John Green suggests that this ongoing conflict is not really about religious differences. He argues it is about:

• Land - each group wants to control more territory

• nationalism - the desire to stand up for your nation/group and fight if necessary for what is best for your people

• theology - your belief in God and how you feel worship should be done

Where were the religious populations roughly equal?

• Palestine

• Israel

• Jerusalem

​ (a)   was the word for people who wanted to establish a Jewish state. This was a place for Jews to live not necessarily a place ruled under Jewish law.

• Zionism
• Holocaust
• Nationalism

Who had the British promised control over Palestine to when the Ottoman Empire was defeated?

• The Meccans (The future leaders of Saudi Arabia)

• The British

• The Zionists

Why did the British set up laws that separated the different groups living in Palestine?

• They didn't want them to work together to overthrow the British leaders.

• They wanted the people in the region to get along better.

In​ (a)   the​ (b)   decided to divide Palestine into a separate Jewish and Palestinian states. The borders that they proposed ​ (c)   and would definitely ​ (d)  

• 1947
• 1916
• United Nations
• League of Nations
• were crazy
• made sense
• cause problems
• work

Is it going to be easy to establish separate Palestinian and Jewish states that work for everyone?

• YES

• NO