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- 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.
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- 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.