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

6. Land for the Kurds
Parts of Turkey
Iraq
Syria

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

10. 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

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

16. Section 2

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

20. 64% of the earth’s supply is located here
OIL DEPOSITS IN SW ASIA
64% of the earth’s supply is located here

22. 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

25. 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

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