Israel and the Arab World

As a result of winning the war, Israel won full control of the city of

From which country did it take the Golan Heights?

From which country did it take Gaza?

Fatah won the elections; Hamas didn't not accept the results. There was a split. Fatah ruled the West Bank. Hamas ruled

After WWII, the British decided to terminate its mandate of Palestine and turn the matter over to

Israel also won control of Arab land, enlarging its territory. From which country did it take the Sinai Peninsula?

Also under this 1947 proposal, Jerusalem would have been

After the Six Day War, the Arab nations voted to accept Israel's right to exist.

The First Intifada was an uprising by Palestinians protesting Israeli control of

A Palestinian revolutionary group, Black September, kidnapped and murdered Israeli athletes at the 1972

In 1956, Gamal Abdel Nasser, the president of Egypt, seized the Suez Canal. Which country did NOT invade Egypt?

Yassar Arafat was the leader of the PLO.

An agreement to negotiate peace as partners was the result of an agreement between Israel and the PLO. This was called

Which of the following was NOT one of the famous three nos declared by the Arab nations regarding Israel in 1967?

What did NOT happen to Yitzak Rabin, the prime minister of Israel, as a result of his role in the Oslo Accords?

The land in dispute, to which both Arabs and Jews claim ancestral rights, was called _____ during WWI.

Which of the following is NOT something that happened to Anwar Sadat of Egypt after signing the Camp David Accords?

In 1964, the PLO was formed. What was it?

The US, along with the UN, condemned the invasion of Egypt and forced the invading armies to leave.

Israeli settlements in the West Bank are seen by Palestinians as a peaceful buffer between Arabs and Jews.

Which of the following was NOT one of the agreements made in the Oslo Accords?

During WWI, the British promised the Arabs that they would help them set up a homeland if the Arabs would revolt against

The Palestine Liberation Organization was dedicated to the destruction of Israel, using violence and terror

Israel won the War of Independence and took control of land that the partition plan had intended for Palestine.

At the same time, the British Foreign Minister ____ promised the same thing to Zionists Jews for their help.

Two major political parties competed for power in the Palestinian Authority's first elections. One was Fatah; the other?

The founder of the modern Zionist movement, who called for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in the 1890s, was

On May 14, 1948 Israel declared independence. Which of the following was NOT one of the Arab countries that invaded it?

Although Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel's current prime minister, supports settlements, he has promised to have build more

Hamas continues to launch terror rockets at Israel today.

Yassar Arafat was the leader of the Arab League.

In 1973, Israel was attacked by a coalition of Arab countries led by Egypt, but won the war in three weeks. Which war?

In 1947, the UN proposed a two-state solution: two Palestines, one Arab and one Jewish. Both Arabs and Jews rejected it

In 1967, Israel learned of an attack being planned against it. Israel launched a surprise attack, starting the ____ War

To escape from Nazi oppression, the British government allowed unlimited immigration to Israel for European Jews.

From which country did it take Jerusalem and the West Bank?

A historic agreement was made in 1978. Under the Camp David Accords, who was the first Arab nation to recognize Israel?

Which of the following was NOT one of the agreements made in the Camp David Accords?

As a result of the peace treaties after WWI, rather than becoming independent, Palestine became part of a mandate ruled

The Second Intifada began in 2000 but, overall, was not as violent as the First Intifada.