Why did the world feel it was

necessary to create a Jewish

homeland?

Israel becomes a statePalestine now consists of Israel, the West Bank and the ____________.This land belonged to the Jews 3,000 years ago, when Jewish Kings ruled the __________ Jerusalem. To ______________ (both Muslim and Christian), the land has belonged to them since the Jews were driven out around 135 AD.

Gaza Strip

Region

Palestinians

ContinuedAfter being forced out of their ____________, Jewish people were unable to establish their own nation.

The global dispersal of the Jews is know as ______________.

_____________ are people who favored a Jewish homeland.

homeland

Diaspora

Zionist

Israel and Arab States in Confl ict

In 1917, Britain issued the ___________________, which pledged to support a Jewish homeland.

However, this deepened _________ in the Middle East.

There was a __________ of Jews to Palestine, especially after the horrors of the _____________.

Balfour Declaration

tensions

migration

Holocaust

Jews & Arabs in Palestine, 1920

In 1920, there was 1 Jew toevery 10 Arabs inPalestine.

By 1947, the ratio was 2 Arabs forevery Jew.

The Arabs felt that they were

loosing control of their “country!”

The Birth of IsraelAfter Britain withdrew in 1948, Jews ______________ the independent state of Israel.

The US and Soviet Union both recognized Israel.

Arab states, however, ___________ a military attack on the new nation.

proclaimed

launched

The Nazi Holocaust

6,000,00 Jews killed by the Nazis [1/2 in the concentration camps.]