Year 9 Arab Israeli Glossary

Question 1

ARAB

Answer 1

 A person from the Middle East and North Africa

Question 2

BALFOUR DECLARATION

Answer 2

British government statement in 1917 supporting the Jews right to a ‘national home’.

Question 3

GAZA STRIP

Answer 3

Palestinian territory on the easter coast of the Mediterranean Sea

Question 4

HAMAS

Answer 4

Militant Palestinian organisation founded 1987

Question 5

HOLY LAND

Answer 5

The area to the west of the Mediterranean Sea and the river Jordan in the East

Question 6

ISLAM

Answer 6

The religion of the Muslim people

Question 7

ISRAELI

Answer 7

 Person living in modern state of Israel

Question 8

INTIFADA

Answer 8

 Uprising of the Arab peoples (means ‘shaking off’ in Arabic)

Question 9

JERUSALEM

Answer 9

City in Middle East, holy to Judaism, Christianity and Islam

Question 10

JUDAISM

Answer 10

The religion of the Jewish people

Question 11

MANDATE

Answer 11

An official order

Question 12

MIDDLE EAST

Answer 12

Land area covering Western Asia and Egypt

Question 13

NAKBA

Answer 13

Translates as ‘catastrophe’ – refers to event in 1948 when Palestinians were forced out of their homes

Question 14

OTTOMAN EMPIRE

Answer 14

Powerful super state controlling much of eastern Europe and Western Asia from the 14th to 20th centuries

Question 15

PALESTINE

Answer 15

Area of the Middle East

Question 16

PLO

Answer 16

Palestinian Liberation Organisation

Question 17

TREATY

Answer 17

A formal agreement between states

Question 18

UNITED NATIONS

Answer 18

Organisation set up to keep world peace after WW2

Question 19

ZIONISM

Answer 19

 A movement supporting the re-establishment of a Jewish nation in what is now Israel