term 3 voc Flashcards

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It was a declaration adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on 10 December 1948 at the palais de Chaillot , paris.

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Declaration of Human Rights

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The action of violating someone or something.

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Violation

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A person who has been forced to leave their country in order to to escape war, persecution,or natural disaster,

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Refugee

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The destruction or slaughter on a mass scale, especially caused by fire or nuclear war,

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Holocaust

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A title given the principal administrator of some organizations, most notably the United Nations.

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Secretary General

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The primary instrument for establishing and maintaining international peace.Its main purpose is to prevent war by settling disputes between nations.

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Security Council

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A person who is blamed for the wrong doings, mistakes, or faults of others, especially for reasons of expediency.

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Scapegoat

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(someone)To hostility and ill-treatment especially because of their race or political or religious beliefs.

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Persecuted

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Is prejudice, against, hatred of, or discrimination against Jews as a national, ethnic, religious or racial group.

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Anti-aemitic

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Judaism the Hebrew people, past, present, present, and future, regarded as the chosen people of god by virtue of the covenant of Jacob.

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Israel

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It’s a geographic region in western Asia between the Mediterranean sea and the Jordan river.

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Palestine

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A landlocked territory near the Mediterranean coast of western Asia, forming the bulk of the Palestinian territories.

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West Bank

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The action or state of dividing or being divided into parts.

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Partition

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It’s the development and protection of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel.

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Zionism

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An organization founded in 1964 with the purpose of the “liberation of Palestine” through armed struggle.

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Palestine Liberation Organization

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The Palestinian uprising against Israeli occupation of the West bank and Gaza strip.

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Intifada

17
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An intergovernmental organization established 24 October 1945 to promote international co-operation.

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United Nations

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A place where large numbers of people, especially political prisoners or members of persecuted minorities, are deliberately imprisoned in a relatively small area with inadequate facilities, sometimes to provide forced labor or to await mass execution

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Concentration camp

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is the world’s forum for discussing matters affecting world peace and security, and for making recommendations concerning them. ps it has no power to force a decision

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General Assembly

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(dated 2 November 1917) was a letter from the United Kingdom’s Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour to Baron Rothschild (Walter Rothschild, 2nd Baron Rothschild), a leader of the British Jewish community, for transmission to the Zionist Federation of Great Britain and Ireland.

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Balfour Declaration