short answer

Question 0

white paper

Answer 0

1939. restricts Jewish immigration. requires Arab consent for more restricts land purchase. Palestinian state in ten years. Arab high commuter refuses.

Question 1

peel commission

Answer 1

1937. result: one state solution not plausible. mandate untenable. recommends partition of territory. Arabs say no, Jews (Weizmann & Ben Gurion) say yes.

Question 2

yishuv

Answer 2

Jews living in Palestine before the establishment of the state if Israel. minority. old yishuv- pre aaliyahs

Question 3

Zionism

Answer 3

nationalist political project. aims to returns Jews to eretz Israel and enjoy national sovereignty there mix of millenarian and tradition Jewish impulses and European nationalism return to Zion answer to Jewish question

Question 4

revisionist Zionism

Answer 4

jabotinsky: zionisms goal to create a state on both banks of the Jordan river, the Likud. more cultural than religious

Question 5

liberal Zionism

Answer 5

dominant until ww1, similar to European liberals

Question 6

Ben Gurion

Answer 6

first prime minister Of Israel, conservative, anti Arab, more secular

Question 7

golan heights

Answer 7

occupied territory, taken in 67 war, hafiz al Assad tries to take it back in Yom Kippur war, Sadat doesn’t come through

Question 8

Aliyah

Answer 8

Jewish migration to Palestine. 1st 1881-1903, minor 13-20k, Jews but land. 2nd-1903-1906 spurred by second set of pogroms

Question 9

Arab revolt

Answer 9

1936. strikes, attacks on British forces. civil unrest. attempt to force Brits to curb Jewish immigration. more Palestinians killed by Palestinians. land acquisition, Arabs don’t want to to sell to Jews. divided Palestinians rural v urban.

Question 10

camp David accords

Answer 10

carter & Sadat want to link Sinai to Palestine, begin doesn’t let that happen. begin refers to rights of Palestinians as only wb and hazard, not refugees. Egypt expelled from Arab league

Question 11

Amin hajj al Hussein

Answer 11

leader of Palestine, radicalized Palestinian position. opposition to Jewish home in Palestine. 30s, visited butler

Question 12

sabra and chatila

Answer 12

massacre in south of leb

Question 13

deir yassin

Answer 13

Palestinian village in Jerusalem, massacres in 48 civil war

Question 14

eretz Israel

Answer 14

territory between rafa and the litani river, the med sea and east Amman/Jordan river. Israel downplays existence of specific region called Palestine, named eretz Israel as a political act

Question 15

Likud

Answer 15

right wing Israeli political.

Question 16

yasser arafat

Answer 16

used violence to propel Palestinian message

Question 17

fatah

Answer 17

j

Question 18

PLO

Answer 18

Palestinian liberation org, created by Nasser Arafat

Question 19

black September

Answer 19

PLO- plane hijacking a, kidnapping of Israeli Olympic athletes, violence to bring awareness to Israel Palestine, not necessarily working in their favor

Question 20

Dreyfus affair

Answer 20

France. captain Alfred Dreyfus accused of treason. based on anti semitismh, spurred more antisemitism, convinced Theodore hertzl of need to solve the Jewish question, wrote der Judenstaat and created first Zionist congress

Question 21

pogrom

Answer 21

Russia, violent riots and massacres of Jews.

Question 22

Balfour declaration

Answer 22

November 1917. uk foreign secretary Arthur James Balfour to baron Rothschild favoring establishment of Israel and declaring their support. beat French to zionism

Question 23

Sykes-picot agreement

Answer 23

France and England divide up the Middle East.

Question 24

occupied territories

Answer 24

golan, wb, hazard, southern lebanon, Sinai for a period of time

Question 25

menachem begin

Answer 25

founder of Likud and first Likud prime monister in 1977

Question 26

anwar Sadat

Answer 26

successor of Nasser, tried to make relations with us. first Arab to create agreement with Israel. got Sinai back to Egypt.

Question 27

gamal abdul-Nasser

Answer 27

becomes pres of Egypt in 1954 after free officers coup. Egypt as leader of Arabism

Question 28

suez crisis

Answer 28

Oct 1956. Israel invades Sinai. Brits and French pretend to stop it, then
also invade. military loss for Egypt, political gain for Nasser

Question 29

Yom Kippur war

Answer 29

h

Question 30

Arabism

Answer 30

h

Question 31

Ben gurionism

Answer 31

based in holicaust and Arab hostility. need to be aggressive to survive. combination of military prowess and persistence sense of being under threat. no concessions, especially territorial ones