Israel/Palestine

Question 1

Arab

Answer 1

a person who speaks Arabic and shares or identifies with Arab culture, could be Muslim, Christian or Druze (there are Arabic speaking Jews too)

Question 2

Muslim

Answer 2

a person who adheres to, believes in, or identifies with the religion and or culture of Islam

Question 3

jew

Answer 3

a person who adheres to, believes in, or identifies with the religion and or culture of Judaism

Question 4

Israel

Answer 4

a person who adheres to, believes in, or identifies with the religion and or culture of Judaism

Question 5

Palestine

Answer 5

historically a territory in the eastern Mediterranean, south of Syria, north of Egypt. Britain controlled a Palestinian Mandate after WWI. It had been Ottoman land. Today Palestine is the term used for either all or some of the West Bank, Gaza or in some cases even Israel itself.

Question 6

Palestinian

Answer 6

an Arab who lives in or identifies with the territory of Palestine, the West Bank, or Gaza.

Question 7

West Bank

Answer 7

the piece of land west of the Jordan River, south of the Sea of Galillee (Kinneret) and north of the Dead Sea, part of “Palestinian territory” or Palestine.

Question 8

Gaza

Answer 8

small strip of land along the Mediterranean Sea, north of Egypt, part of “Palestinian territory” or Palestine.

Question 9

Zionist/Zionism

Answer 9

Jewish nationalism, the idea that Jews are a people, like other “peoples,” who have a culture and a homeland which should be in the “Lanf of Zion” or Israel.

Question 10

PLO

Answer 10

Palestinian Liberation Organization, an organization that fought for the independence of Palestine and became a defacto “government in exile,” “a terrorist organization.”

Question 11

Hamas

Answer 11

“Islamic Resistance Movement” a more “radical” and “extreme” organization that fought for the independence of Palestine, “a terrorist organization,” now a political party in a semi-autonmous Gaza.

Question 12

Refugee/refugee camps

Answer 12

people displaced from their home or homeland, refugees may live in other countries or in camps. (ex: Deheishe in the West Bank)

Question 13

Settlements

Answer 13

towns, villages, areas where Jews have set up homes in the West Bank, some are legal, some are not.

Question 14

Wars

Answer 14

1948 (Independence), 1967 (Six Day War) 1973 (Yom Kipur) ** Names of wars can be different depending on which side you are on. I gave you the names Israelis use.

Question 15

Intifada

Answer 15

Arabic for “the uprising” a series of disturbances and violence between Palestinians and Israelis, started in 1989

Question 16

Jerusalem

Answer 16

capital of Israel and claimed by Palestinians as a capital too, divided into quarters

Question 17

Peace Process

Answer 17

the many attempts to solve the conflcit between Israel and Palestinians (ex: Camp David, Oslo, “two-state solution,” one-state solution”)