Holy Land Key words Flashcards
Nation
a large group of people living in one area with their own government, language, and traditions
State
a nation or territory considered as an organized political community under one government.
Nation-state
a political unit where the state and nation are in harmony
Nationality
the status of belonging to a particular nation
Nationalism
identification with one’s own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion of the interests of other nations.
Colonialism
the practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.
Ethnicity
the quality or fact of belonging to a population group or subgroup made up of people who share a common cultural background or descent.
Arab
a member of a Semitic people
Anti-Semitism
hostility to or prejudice against Jewish people.
Pogroms
an organized massacre of helpless people (often relating to Jews)
Zionism
a movement for (originally) the re-establishment and (now) the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel.
Hussein-McMahon letters
Letters that the Arabs assumed meant that in exchange for their support against the Turks they would received British support in forming an Arab homeland. Nothing was stated precisely and no deal was ever made.
Sykes-Picot agreement
The 1916 secret agreement between Britain and France that divided up the Arab lands of Lebanon, Syria, southern Turkey, Palestine, Jordan, and Iraq.
Balfour Declaration
British document that promised land in Palestine as homeland for Jews in exchange for Jews help in WWI - 1917
National self-determination
The free choice by the people of a nation of their own future political status.
King-Crane Commission
US committee sent by 1919 Paris Peace Conference to understand Syrian and Palestinian aspirations, but its report, sympathetic to Arab nationalism, was not acted upon
Haganah
A Zionist paramilitary group formed in 1920 with the expressed goal of defending the growing Jewish population in British mandate Palestine against attacks by Arab residents.
Lehi
Extreme Zionists: Freedom for Israel Freedom
Mandate (in the League of Nations)
A legal status for certain territories transferred from the control of one country to another following World War I
The UNSCOP Partition Plan
A plan to partition Palestine into a Jewish state and an Arab state. Jerusalem should be an international zone under UN control
Arab Higher Committee
Formed in 1936 in response to a general Arab strike that was to continue until Britain granted the Arabs’ demands for restrictions on immigration/land sales and the establishment of a democratic government.
European Jewish Diaspora
A dispersion of the Jewish people (across Europe) as a result of ill-treatment, oppression and persecution (of the Jewish people)
