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Chapter 23

Chapter 23. SW Asia Today’s Issues. Why did so many foreign workers come to SW Asia. Work in the oil industries. GUEST WORKERS. Fill the jobs that the native people find culturally or economically unacceptable. Problems with the guest workers. Segregation Discrimination

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Chapter 23

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  1. Chapter 23 SW Asia Today’s Issues

  2. Why did so many foreign workers come to SW Asia • Work in the oil industries

  3. GUEST WORKERS • Fill the jobs that the native people find culturally or economically unacceptable

  4. Problems with the guest workers • Segregation • Discrimination • Competition with local workers

  5. Land for the Kurds • Parts of Turkey • Iraq • Syria

  6. WHO ARE THE PALESTINIANS? • Arabs and their descendents who lived or still live in the area formerly know as Palestine and now called Israel

  7. WEST BANK • Strip of land on the west side of the Jordan River • Jordan lost control of this land in a war with Israel in 1967

  8. GAZA STRIP • Territory along the Mediterranean Sea – Northeast of the Sinia Peninsulas • Israel ocuppied this land in 1967

  9. Section 2

  10. STRATEGIC COMMODITY • A resource so important that nations will go to war to ensure its steady supply • OIL

  11. OIL DEPOSITS IN SW ASIA • 64% of the earth’s supply is located here

  12. WOMEN AND EDUCATION • Difficult for women to get an education because many societies have strict rules governing the bahavior for women • 2nd class citizens • Lacking civil rights

  13. UNITED NATIONS CREATING JERUSALEM IN ISRAEL AFTER WWII • However, after a series of Arab (Muslim) and Israeli (Jews) wars, Israel won control of most of the city

  14. CONTROL OF JERUSALEM • 2 nations want control over the city Israel (Jews) Palestine (Muslims)

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