On your KWL charts, many of you recorded that you “know” that the Middle East has a high population of Muslims (people who practice the religion Islam). • Yet Judaism, Christianity and Islam all emerged in the Middle East! • In fact, after World War Two a conflict involving Jews was the MAJOR political event in What I K now What I W ant to Know What I L earned
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On your KWL charts, many of you recorded that you “know” that the Middle East has a high population of Muslims (people who practice the religion Islam).
• Yet Judaism, Christianity and Islam all emerged in the Middle East!
• In fact, after World War Two a conflict involving Jews was the MAJOR political event in the Middle East!
Arab-Israeli Conflict After the Holocaust, many Jews believed that they should have a
homeland of their own. They concentrated on the biblical area of Israel…. Jerusalem. Israel includes holy places for the Jewish religion and is surrounded by Muslim countries.
The United Nations agreed that the Jewish people of the world should be given land so they could live together in peace.
Yet at that time, Palestinian Muslims lived on the land that the United Nations gave to the Jewish people.
The Palestinians and neighboring Arabic nations did not accept the creation of Israel.
War broke out when the Jews, certain of U.S. and Soviet support, declared their independence and the creation of Israel in 1948. (Remember this was when the superpowers were trying to secure Middle Eastern nations as their new allies.)
Arab states launched a military attack on the new nation.
Hoping to annihilate the new Jewish state, the armies of Egypt, Lebanon, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq invaded... thus starting the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.
WAR BREAKS OUT!!!
1949 - fighting ended, Israelis conquered more territory than the U.N. plan initially stated, and the rest of the territory fell to Egypt and Jordan, rather than forming an independent Palestinian state.
The Arab-Israeli War of 1948 uprooted 700,000 Arabs from Palestine. Refugees fled to Lebanon, the West Bank, and the Gaza strip.
The UN set up temporary shelters for the Palestinian refugees which have since become permanent homes.
Generations of Palestinian refugees have grown up determined to win a homeland of their own.