The Middle East - Revision crossword

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  1. 3. The idea that self-proclaimed nations should have their own corresponding state boundaries.
  2. 8. Arabic term meaning “the catastrophe” or “disaster,” referring to the 1948 Palestinian flight.
  3. 12. Turkish empire that ruled Palestine from 1516 until the end of World War I.
  4. 13. State-encouraged massacres of Jewish people in Eastern Europe, such as in 1881 Russia.
  5. 15. Radical Zionist group led by Menachem Begin.
  6. 16. The Jewish Defence Force organized in Palestine during the British Mandate.
  7. 18. Islamic organization founded in 1987 that set up the Qassam Brigades.
  8. 19. The UN committee that recommended the partition of Palestine in 1947.
  9. 20. Term coined in 1781 to describe a Jew, Arab, Assyrian, or Aramaean.
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  1. 1. Ancient seafaring people from whom the name Palestine likely derives.
  2. 2. Religion founded by the Prophet Muhammad in the early seventh century.
  3. 4. Palestinian uprising involving demonstrations and stone-throwing that began in 1987.
  4. 5. Organization created in 1964 to act as the independent voice of the Palestinian people.
  5. 6. The movement founded by Theodor Herzl to set up a Jewish state.
  6. 7. Ship carrying 4,500 Jewish refugees that was turned back by the British in 1947.
  7. 9. The 1917 British declaration supporting a Jewish national home in Palestine.
  8. 10. Palestinian group founded by Yasser Arafat in 1959, meaning “conquest.”
  9. 11. French Jewish captain whose wrongful treason conviction inspired the founder of modern Zionism.
  10. 14. The forced exile and spread of Jewish people from Palestine.
  11. 17. The longstanding discrimination against people of Jewish faith or descent.