THE 1970S 1969 1979
CONFLICT IN THE MIDDLE EAST
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Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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There was no one else living in the land
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Many felt that Jews deserved help because they suffered so much in the Holocaust
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Arab countries in the area supported the idea of a Jewish homeland in Palestine
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All national groups in the former Ottoman Empire were given homelands at that time
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Detailed explanation-1: -Why did so many countries in the United Nations feel it was right to create Israel in 1948? Many felt the Jews deserved help due to their suffering in the Holocaust. What is Zionism? The belief that Jews deserved to return to a homeland in Zion where they had lived in Biblical times.
Detailed explanation-2: -Final status issues include the status of Jerusalem, Israeli settlements, borders, security and water rights as well as Palestinian freedom of movement, and the Palestinian right of return.
Detailed explanation-3: -The history of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict began with the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948. This conflict came from the intercommunal violence in Mandatory Palestine between Arabs and Jews from 1920, and erupted into full-scale hostilities in the 1947–48 civil war.
Detailed explanation-4: -In 1947, and again on May 14, 1948, the United States had offered de facto recognition of the Israeli Provisional Government, but during the war, the United States maintained an arms embargo against all belligerents.