1. The Start of an On-Going Conflict
The Creation of Israel
The Start of an On-Going Conflict

3. Israel becomes a State
Palestine 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

5. Continued
After being forced out of their ____________, Jewish people were unable to establish their own nation.
The global dispersal of the Jews is known as ______________.
_____________ are people who favored a Jewish homeland.
homeland
Diaspora
Zionist

6. Israel and Arab States in Conflict
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

8. Jews & Arabs in Palestine, 1920
In 1920, there was 1 Jew to every 10 Arabs in Palestine.
By 1947, the ratio was 2 Arabs for every Jew.
The Arabs felt that they were loosing control of their “country!”

10. The Birth of Israel
After 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

11. The Nazi Holocaust
6,000,00 Jews killed by the Nazis [1/2 in the concentration camps.]