Israel and the Middle East Vocabulary

2. Five Arab nations invaded territory in the former Palestinian mandate after Israel announced independence in 1948.
3. The first of two conflicts between the Palestine Liberation Organization and Israel to "shake off" Israeli occupation.
4. The country that received the Mandate for Palestine.
9. A set of agreements between Israel and the PLO that attempted to establish a two-state solution.
11. an official order or commission to do something.
12. A movement for the re-establishment of a Jewish nation in Palestine.
13. The commission that recommended dividing the Palestine Mandate into an Arab and a Jewish State.
14. A war fought between Israel and a coalition of Arab state (Egypt, Syria, and Jordan) from June 5-10 1967.
15. The terrorist group responsible for attacks against Israel; founded in 1987 during the first Palestinian uprising against Israeli military control. Governs the Gaza Strip today.
16. A major uprising by Palestinians against Israeli occupation following the failure of the Oslo Accords; the second of such uprisings.
17. Israeli armed forces pushed into Egypt in 1956, with the help of France and Britain, to recover control of an important canal.

1. Judaism, Christianity, and Islam; religions that recognize Abraham as their first prophet.
5. The document in which Britain publicly pledged to establish “a national home for the Jewish people” in Palestine.
6. The Holy Land sacred to Judaism, Islam, and Christianity.
7. The organization which was created to govern Gaza and the West Bank after the Oslo Accords. Still controls the West Bank today.
8. Egyptian and Syrian forces launched an attack against Israel on the holiest day in the Jewish calendar.
10. a pair of political agreements signed by Egypt and Israel in 1978 following secret negotiations at the country retreat of the President of the United States.