8 Israel

Question 1

What happened in 70 AD [CE]?

Answer 1

The first of the Jewish-Roman wars.

Question 2

What did the Romans do?

Answer 2

They destroyed the city of Jerusalem [capital of Judea] after an 8-month siege.

Question 3

What else did they destroy?

Answer 3

The Jewish Temple, leaving one wall.

This was the second time the temple had been destroyed.

Question 4

Why did the Romans do it?

Answer 4

The Jews were revolting against the Romans.

Question 5

What did the Romans do to the Jews?

Answer 5

They expelled them.

Question 6

What does Eretz Israel mean?

Answer 6

The Holy Land.

Question 7

How long have Jews been in Europe?

Answer 7

over 2,000 years

Question 8

In the late 19th century where was there state-sanctioned violence against Jews?

Answer 8

Russia.

Question 9

What did this cause?

Answer 9

An exodus of Jews to the rest of the world.

Question 10

What was the Dreyfus Affair?

Answer 10

1894 France.
An officer was convicted of selling military secrets to Germany.

Question 11

What happened next and who got involved?

Answer 11

The person who had actually done it was found innocent.
Emil Zola got involved.

“J’Accuse”

Question 12

What was the result?

Answer 12

Dreyfus was exonerated and released.

Question 13

What came out of this?

Answer 13

Zionism - Jews would only be free of this in their own state

Question 14

Who was Theodor Herzl?

Answer 14

An Austro-Hungarian activist who had covered the Dreyfus Affair.

Question 15

When did the First Zionist Conference meet?

Answer 15

1897

Question 16

Did the majority of Jews support the creation of a homeland?

Answer 16

No

Question 17

What was the objection?

Answer 17

Some Jews were assilmilated where they lived and felt they wouldn’t be welcomed there anymore.

Question 18

Why did Britain issue the Balfour Declaraion?

Answer 18

To get support for Britain to win World War I.

Question 19

What happened after WWI?

Answer 19

Jews started migrating to Palenstine

Question 20

How did the Arabs respons in 1936-1939?

Answer 20

The Arab Revolt in Palestine

Question 21

What were they revolting against?

Answer 21

The British mandate.
Open-ended Jewish immigration

Question 22

How did the British government respond?

Answer 22

The White Paper of 1939

Question 23

What did the White Paper do?

Answer 23

It restricted Jewish immigration and land purchases.

Question 24

How did it end for the Arabs?

Answer 24

Many of their leaders had been killed by the British.

Question 25

What happened after WWII?

Answer 25

THe Jews had strong leaders and military experience.

Question 26

What was the Palestinian Emergency?

Answer 26

Right-wing Jewish groups attacked police because of limits on Jewish immigration during the war.

Question 27

What happened after the war?

Answer 27

The right-wing Jews committed more terrorist acts until Britain wanted out.

Question 28

What was the UN Partition plan?

Answer 28

The creation of 2 states, 1 Arab and 1 Jewish with international status for Jerulsalem.

Question 29

Was it accepted?

Answer 29

Yes, by the Jews.
No, by the Arabs→ they wouldn’t accept a territorial division.

Question 30

What did the UN do?

Answer 30

They did it anyway.

Question 31

What happened the next day?

Answer 31

Civil war broke out.

Question 32

As the Arabs contemplated war, who agreeed to join them?

Answer 32

Syria, Lebanon and Iraq.

Question 33

What did the Arab civil war morph into?

Answer 33

Arab-Israeli wars.

Question 34

How did the Arabs fare against Israel?

Answer 34

They not only lost, they lost territory.

Question 35

What was the result for the Arabs?

Answer 35

400+ villages destroyed.
700,000 Arabs fled.