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No Trespassing

No Trespassing. The Story of Palestinian-Israeli Conflict…Part II. Balfour No More. In 1939, Britain reversed the Balfour Declaration What did this mean? (1 point)

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No Trespassing

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  1. No Trespassing The Story of Palestinian-Israeli Conflict…Part II

  2. Balfour No More • In 1939, Britain reversed the Balfour Declaration • What did this mean? (1 point) • Answer: Instead of favoring a secure Jewish national homeland they favored an end to Jewish immigration and the creation of an Arab Palestinian state

  3. Balfour No More • What was going on in the world during 1939 that would make it surprising to some that Britain would take this stance? (2 points) • Answer: WWII and the Holocaust

  4. Balfour No More • Why did the Jewish Agency withdraw its support for the British mandate in Palestine? (3 points) • Answer: The Holocaust left hundreds of thousands of Jewish refugees stranded and Britain was refusing to let Holocaust survivors resettle in Palestine after WWII

  5. Zionism Gets Aggressive • Not all Jews were created equal. Who led an extreme Zionist group that blew up the King David Hotel in Jerusalem? What did this lead to? Where? (4 points) • Answer: Menachem Begin; a virtual state of war between the Brits and Zionists in Palestine

  6. Zionists win…sort of… • How did the conflict between the Zionists and British end? (5 points) • Answer: The British referred the Zionist issue to the United Nations

  7. UN Says… • What was the United Nations’ solution to the Palestinian problem? What would happen to Jerusalem? (6 points) • Answer: The UN voted to partition Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab states; Jerusalem would become an international city.

  8. Zionists and Palestinians Say… • What was the reaction from the Zionists to the plan and what did they do with the area? What was the reaction to the Palestinians plan? (7 points) • Answer: Zionists like it and in 1948 Israel becomes a sovereign Jewish state; Arabs unanimously rejected it

  9. Arab Response… • What did Arabs do after Israel became a state? What was the result? (8 points) • Answer: Arab armies moved into Israel; Israel, despite being outnumbered, won the war

  10. Israel’s Shape • How did the size of Israel change after the end of the Arab War? (9 points) • Answer: Israel gained more land than they were granted in the UN partition plan

  11. What’s Left • What happened to the remaining Palestinian land after the cease-fire with Israel? Did Arabs like this? Why? (10 points) • Answer: The land was annexed by Jordan in 1950; No they didn’t, they felt they were hurting the Palestinian cause

  12. DON’T CALL IT A COMEBACK • FINAL QUESTION • YOU CAN WAGER 0-AS MANY PTS AS YOU HAVE

  13. Walk Like an Egyptian… • What was the main goal of Gamal Abdel Nasser as ruler of Egypt? (0-as many points as you have) • Answer: Nasser wanted to rid Egypt of foreign domination

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