DEVELOPMENT IN MIDDLE EAST
ISRAEL AND PALESTINE
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Question
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Many new countries were created that represented a single ethnic group.
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The Tigris and Euphrates Rivers were divided among Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Palestine.
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Several small Arab countries joined together to push for the creation of the State of Israel.
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European politicians didn’t take into account religious and ethnic groups when drawing new boundaries.
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Detailed explanation-1: -As they divided the land, they drew borders that paid no attention to local cultures. This caused some ethnic and religious groups to be separated by boundaries, while other rival groups were grouped together. Claims over land led to long periods of conflict and bloodshed in the region.
Detailed explanation-2: -The partitioning of the Ottoman Empire led to regional conflict because it ignored the histories and interest of ethnic and religious groups. The Shia and Sunni Muslim groups split causing the Sunni to make up the terrorist group called ISIS.
Detailed explanation-3: -The United Kingdom in the Middle East. During the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire, the British promised the international Zionist movement their support in recreating the historic Jewish homeland in Palestine via the Balfour declaration, a move that created much political conflict, still present today.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Ottoman Empire had been the leading Islamic state in geopolitical, cultural and ideological terms. The partitioning of the Ottoman Empire after the war led to the domination of the Middle East by Western powers such as Britain and France, and saw the creation of the modern Arab world and the Republic of Turkey.