5.2 The Middle East

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5.2 The Middle East

The Ottoman Emipre

* Lost WOI

* 1918

* Divided territories

* Governed by France and Britain

* The arabs wanted their own state -> British promised

Zionisme

* Jews nationalism

* Anti-Semitism

* Jews wanted their own state in Palestine

* British promised them Palestine -> also to the Arabs

* Balfour declaration

Reaction

* Jews supported for a country to be safe -> Holocaust

* Arab protested

* Terriotory

Great Britain backed down from Palestine

* Dividing Palestine into two parts

* Jewish and Arab part

* Zionists did not want to wait any longer

* State of Israel 1948

2 consequences

1. Many Arabs fled Israel

* or were driven out

2. Hostile relations between Isreal and the Arab world

Peace?

* World Community has been trying to make peace

* Two-state solution

* Israelis and Palestinians

* Objections

Portfolio

* Write all your assignments in a portfolio

* At the end of the year, hand in your portfolio

* Grade

Assignments

1,  4, 5b, 6

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