1. Theodore Herzl
was greatly
concerned with
the treatment
of Jews in
Europe.

2. European Jews were frequently
mistreated and abused.

3. Theodore Herzl came to believe that Jews would only be safe
in a Jewish homeland.

4. Theodore Herzl was the founder
of Zionism, a political philosophy
founded in the 1800s.

5. Zionism was a political philosophy
that responded to Anti-Semitism
by arguing for the creation of a Jewish homeland.

6. Zionists believed that only
a Jewish state or homeland
could protect Jews.

7. Great Britain eventually came
to support Zionist claims for
a homeland.

8. To increase Jewish support for the First World War, British Foreign
Secretary,
Arthur Balfour,
wrote a letter supporting a
Jewish state.

9. With the collapse of the Ottoman Empire after the
First World War, Great Britain
gained control of Palestine.

10. But with the end of the Second World War, Great Britain asked
the United Nations for help.

11. Jews believed that God had given them the land but the
Palestinians had lived in the
land for many years.

12. partition of the land into
The U.N. solution was a
partition of the land into
two states.

13. attacked by neighboring Arab
But by 1948, Israel was being
attacked by neighboring Arab
states who refused to recognize
Israel.

14. The Israelis fought back and gained control of many
Palestinian lands. Many
Palestinians were forced into
exile.

15. To this day, conflict between Israelis and Palestinians
persists as no solution to the
division of land has led to
peace.