S.S. terms*ALLOF THEM*
Here are ALL of the S.S. terms, but without the actual definitions from the book, but close enough. You can put the real definitions if you want to. :)
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- Mandates
- Territories placed under another countries control
- Suicide bombing
- a terrorist who wears explosives, nails, and other hard, sharp objects to try to killl as many other people as possible and themselves
- Al Quds
- this means "The Holy City" which is refering to Jerusalem
- Palestine
- when rome conquered the Holy Land, they renamed it Palestina, which is Filastin in Arabic, and Palestine in English
- PLO
- a political movement uniting Palestinian Arabs in an effort to create an independent state of Palestine; Palestinian Liberation Organization
- Arab League
- an international organization of independent Arab states formed in 1945 to promote cultural and economic and military and political and social cooperation
- Diaspora
- the dispersion of the Jews outside Israel
- Oslo Accord
- a framework of peace agreed by the Israeli government and PLO in 1993. formally known as the PLO Accord, the agreement created a peace process in which Israel began handing over portions of the Occupied Territories to the Palestinians in return for recognition of Israel and an end to terroist attacks
- Right to Return
- the palestinian demand that all palestinians who fled the land that became Israel proper in the 1948 israeli war of independence should be allowed to return
- Six-day-war
- started partly over a dispute over the use of water from the Jordan River and was an Arab attempt to completely destroy Israel. This resulted to more Arab deaths than Israeli.
- Fedayeen
- Arab guerrillas who operate mainly against Israel
- Yasser Arafat
- Palestinian statesman who is chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization (born in 1929)
- Jihad
- a holy war waged by Muslims against infidels
- Anti-Semitism
- Discrimmination against Jews
- United Nations
- an international organization whose main goal is to keep international peace
- Yitzhak Rabin
- Prime Minister of Israel during Clinton's administration; assassinated by Israeli extemists
- Intifada
- an uprising by Palestinian Arabs (in both the Gaza Strip and the West Bank) against Israel in the late 1980s and again in 2000
- checkpoints
- places where the Palestinians were stopped and checked for explosives and where they were often harrassed
- War of Independence
- the Jew's way of calling the first Arab-Israeli War
- Zionism
- a policy for establishing and developing a national homeland for Jews in Palestine
- Gamal Abdel Nasser
- egyptian president, nationalize the Suez canal, modernize Egypt and end western domination
- The catastrophe
- the Pathe Palestinian's word for the first Arab-Israeli War
- Palestinian Authority
- a temporary administrative organization that governs parts of Gaza strip and West Bank
- Holocaust
- the Nazi program of exterminating Jews under Hitler
- arab nationalism
- the thought that the arabs were a distinct ethnic group because of the steady decline of the Ottoman Turkish government's authority
- Operation Defense Shield
- was intended to "wipe out the Palestinian infranstructure of terror"
- Pan-Arabism
- an ideology that teaches that all Arab states should work together, itbecame popular during the 1950s and1960s
- Islamic Jihad
- an Islamic extremist group active since the late 1970s
- Occupied Territories
- Sinai Peninsula, Gaza Strip, West Bank, Golan Heights, East Jerusalem - Palestinians commanded self-rule
- Hamas
- a militant Islamic fundamentalist political movement that opposes peace with Israel and uses terrorism as a weapon
- balfour declaration
- Declaration of Britain stating Jews can have a home in Palestine
- Terrorism
- the use of violence as a means of political power
- Temple Mount
- the jewish name for the hill in the center of Old Jerusalem and a hill where the Muslims built a Mosque in Old Jerusalem and also a place where the Jewish Temple once stood
- Theodor Hertzel
- usually credited as the most important leader in the Zionist movement
- Dome of The Rock
- a shrine in Jerusalem at the site from which muhammad ascended through the seven heavens to the throne of God
- anwar sadat
- military leader, tried to make peace w/Israel, was assassinated
- Western Wall
- what remains of the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem (the foundation)
- Aliyas
- hebrew word meaning "ascent", refers to the time when a jew called up to read the Torah in the synagogue, and also the term for a wave of Jewish immigration to the Holy Land
- ariel sharon
- prime minister in Israel; after he took office the violence escalated
- crusades
- a series of military expeditions launched by Christian Europeans to win the Holy Land back from Muslim control