creation of israel ppt
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Israel becomes a statePalestine now consists of Israel, the West Bank and the ____________.This land belonged to the Jews 3,000 years ago, when Jewish Kings ruled the __________ Jerusalem. To ______________ (both Muslim and Christian), the land has belonged to them since the Jews were driven out around 135 AD.
Gaza Strip
Region
Palestinians
ContinuedAfter being forced out of their ____________, Jewish people were unable to establish their own nation.
The global dispersal of the Jews is know as ______________.
_____________ are people who favored a Jewish homeland.
homeland
Diaspora
Zionist
Israel and Arab States in Confl ict
In 1917, Britain issued the ___________________, which pledged to support a Jewish homeland.
However, this deepened _________ in the Middle East.
There was a __________ of Jews to Palestine, especially after the horrors of the _____________.
Balfour Declaration
tensions
migration
Holocaust
Jews & Arabs in Palestine, 1920
In 1920, there was 1 Jew toevery 10 Arabs inPalestine.
By 1947, the ratio was 2 Arabs forevery Jew.
The Arabs felt that they were
loosing control of their “country!”
The Birth of IsraelAfter Britain withdrew in 1948, Jews ______________ the independent state of Israel.
The US and Soviet Union both recognized Israel.
Arab states, however, ___________ a military attack on the new nation.
proclaimed
launched