Modern Middle East

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Across
  1. 2. the refusal to sell an important commodity to another nation to hurt that nation.
  2. 6. the 1973 war began on this important Jewish holiday.
  3. 7. this territory is the center of conflict between Israel and Hamas.
  4. 8. a person who is forced from their home.
  5. 12. the type of government that emerged in Iran after 1979.
  6. 15. the site of the tragedy for Israeli athletes in 1972.
  7. 17. the strong belief or pride in one's nation or ethnicity.
  8. 19. making a judgment about another based on first appearances.
  9. 20. the British idea to create a Jewish homeland in Palestine in 1917.
  10. 21. a country is given the right to govern over a territory.
  11. 22. Jews from anywhere in the world could become immediate citizens of Israel.
  12. 23. prejudice against Jewish people.
  13. 25. the forced dispersal of ancient Jews from Palestine.
Down
  1. 1. assigning a characteristics to a specific group of people.
  2. 3. this had the biggest impact on the decision to create Israel after 1945.
  3. 4. Yasir Arafat was the leader of this terrorist organization.
  4. 5. the holy city, controlled internationally.
  5. 9. the leader of this nation tried to take an important waterway.
  6. 10. terrorist group responsible for starting the current war in Israel.
  7. 11. the movement of European Jews to gain a homeland in Palestine before WW2.
  8. 13. the oil cartel of Middle Eastern nations.
  9. 14. the location of the first peace negotiation in 1978.
  10. 16. after this conflict, Israel gained possession of all the "Occupied Territories".
  11. 18. the ability of a local people to control their own politics without interference from outsiders.
  12. 24. this nation held Americans hostage for close to a year.