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Unit 12: Arab-Israeli Conflict Vocabulary

Terms in this set (10)

The dispersal of the Jews from their homeland in Palestine - especially during the period of more than 1,800 years that followed the Romans' destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 70 AD
Diaspora
The belief that people should be loyal mainly to their nation - that is, to the people with whom they share a culture and history - rather than to a king or empire
Nationalism
An international peacekeeping organization founded in 1945 to provide security to the nations of the world
United Nations
A mass slaughter of Jews and other civilians, carried out by the Nazi government of Germany before and during World War II
Holocaust
An agreement in 1993 in which Israeli prime minister Rabin granted Palestinian self-rule in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank
Oslo Peace Accords
The use of force or threats to frighten people or governments to change their politics
Terrorism
The first signed agreement between Israel and an Arab country, in which Egyptian president Anwar Sadat recognized Israel as a legitimate state and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin agreed to return the Sinai Peninsula to Egypt
Camp David Accords
Palestinian campaign of civil disobedience against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip, which continued into the 1990s
Intifada
A movement founded in the 1890s to promote the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine
Zionism
The Palestine Liberation Organization - an organization dedicated to the establishment of an independent state for Palestinians in the Middle East
PLO
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