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Next Test Review. Name that Country. We are on the Persian Gulf King Abdullah is our leader We helped the British against the Ottoman’s We are Wahhabis. Osama Bin Ladin came from here. Our democracy is threatened by demographics. We have a border on the Mediterranean.

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  1. Next Test Review Name that Country.

  2. We are on the Persian Gulf • King Abdullah is our leader • We helped the British against the Ottoman’s • We are Wahhabis. • Osama Bin Ladin came from here

  3. Our democracy is threatened by demographics. • We have a border on the Mediterranean. • Our occupation makes the rest of the world really mad, except the U.S. • We were created in 1948 by the U.N. • We have been in five or more wars since World War II.

  4. We have beautiful beaches on the Mediterranean. • We have a large Shiite minority on our southern border. • We have a parliament where each ethnic group gets a prescribed amount of seats, established in a long ago census. • Hezbollah lives there. • We border Israel to the North (of Israel). • Beirut is our capital.

  5. We are on the Saudi Peninsula • You really wouldn’t want to be a young woman here. • We have had the same leader for 40 years. • We used to be a British “protectorate” • We grow lots of khat • Saleh is our dictator, but probably not for long. • We were where the USS Cole was bombed • We were where Imam Al Alwalki was droned.

  6. Hannibal came from my country. • Our revolt started with a slap and a fire. • I was the first country to revolt in the Arab Spring. • The Bin Ali Family was our leaders

  7. We recently changed governments. • We are the largest Arab country by population. • We made a peace treaty with Israel in 1978. • Abdul Nasser was our President. • Anwar Sadat was our President • Hosni Mubarak was our President. • The Suez Canal is on our eastern border. • We border Israel to East.

  8. Our leader is an Alawite Muslim, but our population is Sunni. • We took over Lebanon for a while to stop the civil war. • We attacked Israel three or four times. • Israel took the Golan Heights from us. • Our leader’s dad was a forty year dictator • Our leader is Bashar al Assad.

  9. We are on the Persian Gulf • We have a large Shiite and a large Sunni population. • We invaded Kuwait, a big mistake. • Iran is our traditional enemy. • We fought a war with Iran in the 80s. • Saddam Hussein used to be our leader.

  10. We are an Arab country. • We attacked Israel three or four times, but now recognize their right to exist. • Our King is a Hashemite.+ • Our King is the moderate Abdullah • Our Queen Mum is an American. • We were part of the British Mandate. • The West Bank of the Jordan river was taken from us in 1967.

  11. We border the Mediterranean • We have a new leader • AQ Khan sold us nuclear secrets • Our President/Dictator had a team of virgin bodyguards. • Our President traveled with an Ukrainian Nurse. • We were responsible for the deaths of many Americans over Lockerbie, Scotland • Our leader was recently killed.

  12. Arabs call this the catastrophe • Because of this, no two state solution • Resulted in millions of refugees and hundreds of refugee camps

  13. Major sticking point in any negotiations of Palestinian/Israel dispute • Passed by U.N. in 1948 • Would upset Israeli demographics if it was implemented

  14. Was a terrorist • Then a Prime Minister • Player at Camp David

  15. Some power on the West Bank • Political wing of the PLO • Asked for Statehood for Palestinians at U.N. • Abbas is in control

  16. The prototypical terrorist • Face of Palestinian resistance for 30 years • Looks like ringo starr • Married to a Christian

  17. President after Nasser • Player at Camp David • Killed by Muslim Brotherhood

  18. I was in 9th grade • West Bank occupied by Israel • Sinai taken be Israel • Land taken here a potential Palestinian state • Lasted less than a week

  19. Returned the Sinai • Cost the U.S. a lot of cash • Made Peace between Israel and largest Arab country • Recognized Israel right to exist by Egypt

  20. Arabs point to this a lot • Passed by the U.N. • Requires a return to the pre 67 border • Would mean the settlements have to go.

  21. Lives on the West Bank • Ask U.N. to recognized Palestinian State • Head of the political wing of PLO • More Moderate than Arafat • Head of Fatah

  22. Right of Return

  23. Israel’s Demographic Problem

  24. 5 countries who routinely attacked Israel before 1975

  25. The Lebanese Invasion 1982

  26. Hezbollah

  27. Hamas

  28. Qudz force

  29. Intifada

  30. The Wall

  31. Resolution 242

  32. Settlements

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