Week 14- Zionism and Political Islam Flashcards
where did jews go after the holocaust
palestine
who organized illegal immigration of jews
- zionists
- The rescues operated especially between 1939 and 1942 and 1945 and 1948, despite tightened British blockade
Balfour Declaration
was a public statement issued by the British government during World War I announcing support for the establishment of a “national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine
zionism
- Zionist ideology holds that the Jews are a people or nation and should gather together in a single land
- The Zionist movement was founded by Theodor Herzl due to anti-semitism
How is one to interpret the shift from the Palestinian Mandate to the birth of the State of Israel?
- British failure to resolve the conflict between Jewish immigration and preservation of Palestinian Arab rights
- triumph of the Zionist immigrants over Arab resistance, British opposition, and European anti-Semitism
- arab once majority to now minority
timeline for birth of Israel
- jews immigrate to Palestine despite British trying to keep them out
- UN came in and created arab state, jewish state, and Jerusalem
- jews agree to plan, but arabs do not
- israel declares indépendance in 1948
- arabs attacked and lost
June war/ six day war
- israel thought it was very successful
- palestine thought it was not
fall of arab nationalism
-the arab loss to Israel meant that the second president of Egypt was not fully discredited
modern iran
- democracy overthrown by US and UK because we feared that the Iranian prime minister might nationalize Iranian oil
- shah installed (new monarch)
- shah overthrown as Iranian republic formed
global political islam develop
- muslims conflicted on whether to embrace it or not
- but further growing across the globe
- encouraged by Saudis
political islam
advocating transformation of the state and entire society according to “Islamic” rules
syrian war
-the worst and most complicated war at the time
