Middle East Crossword Puzzle

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Across
  1. 2. the country Iraq invaded in the 1980s for more oil
  2. 5. guidelines for Muslims
  3. 6. leader of the Palestinian Authority
  4. 8. guidelines for Jews and Christians
  5. 10. holy city for all monotheistic religions
  6. 13. the messiah for Christians
  7. 14. led to the Israel gaining the Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, and the West Bank
  8. 18. faced human rights violations during Saddam Hussein’s reign
  9. 23. Egypt nationalized the Suez Canal – Israel invades Egypt to prevent the shipping lanes from being blocked
  10. 27. the dictator of Iraq who was eventually tried and executed by the Iraqi court system
  11. 30. surprise attack on Israel – Israeli wins and gains land in Syria and along the Suez Canal
  12. 31. the UN divided Palestine into two countries – one for Jews and one for Palestinian Arabs
  13. 32. British promised them Palestine for helping them fight the Ottoman Empire during World War I
  14. 33. leader of Libya overthrown during the Arab Spring
  15. 35. wave of protests and overthrowing of autocratic gov’ts in North Africa and Southwest Asian countries in the 2010s.
Down
  1. 1. first peace talk attempts between Egypt and Israel
  2. 3. US believed that Saddam Hussein had links to this organization; later rejected
  3. 4. the only country with anything resembling a democracy after the Arab Spring
  4. 7. US and coalition forces invaded Iraq in 2003 due to the suspicion that the country was harboring these; no evidence to these accusations was ever found
  5. 9. the process of becoming a more democratic country
  6. 11. terrorist group formed in Lebanon
  7. 12. British declaration that promised Palestine to the Jews
  8. 15. the country Iraq invaded in the 1990s for more oil
  9. 16. belief in one god
  10. 17. has ravaged Syria in the aftermath of the Arab Spring
  11. 19. unify all Arabs
  12. 20. leader of the PLO for decades
  13. 21. terrorist group formed in refugee camps
  14. 22. fighting between Sunnis and Shiites
  15. 24. father of Judaism
  16. 25. movement for Jews to return to the holy land
  17. 26. founder of Islam
  18. 28. Israel won and annexed half of Palestinian land
  19. 29. leader of Egypt overthrown during the Arab Spring
  20. 34. Palestinian protests; “shaking off”
  21. 36. goal: destroy Israel and return land to Palestinian Arabs