5.2 The Middle East

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5.2 The Middle East

The Ottoman Emipre

* Lost WOI

* 1918

* Mandated territories

* Governed by France and Britain

* The Arabs wanted their own state -> British promise

Zionism

* Jewish nationalism

* Anti-Semitism

* Jews wanted their own state in Palestine

* British promised them Palestine -> also to the Arabs

* 1917 Balfour declaration

Reaction

* Jews received support for a country to be safe -> Holocaust

* Arab protested

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

3 consequences

1. Many Arabs fled Israel

* or were driven out

2. Hostile relations between Israel and the Arab world

1967 Six-Day War 

1973 Yom Kippur War

2023 Hamas-Israël War

3. 1967 Israel occupied parts of Egypt, Jordan and Syria

Peace?

* World Community has been trying to make peace

* Two-state solution

* Israelis and Palestinians

* Objections

Get to work

Do 5.2 ex. 1-6

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Portfolio

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

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Assignments

1,  4, 5b, 6

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