| A | B |
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| anit-semitism | Hostility toward or prejudice against Jews or Judaism |
| Zionism | The movement to get a Jewish nation |
| diaspora | The time when Jews were forced out of their homeland |
| 586 BC and 70 AD | When the Jewish nation was destroyed and Jews had to leave |
| Israel | The name of the Jewish nation |
| 1948 | The year the Jewish nation was created |
| United Nations | An international group which represents most of the nations of the world |
| Jerusalem | The capital city of Israel and the ancient Jewish kingdoms |
| Six Day War in 1967 | Israel defeated the Arabs and gained the territory of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Golan Heights |
| Dome of the Rock | Mosque built in Jerusalem where Muhammad was said to have risen to heaven, it is very sacred to Muslims |
| Wailing Wall | The only remaining wall from King Solomon's temple in Jerusalem, it is very sacred to Jews |
| Yasir Arafat | Leader of the Palestinians |
| West Bank, Gaza Strip, and Golan Heights | Arab lands occupied by Israel since the Six Day War |
| 1400s to 1918 | The time that the Muslim Ottoman Empire ruled the land called Paletine |
| Great Britain | The country which defeated the Ottoman Empire and promised land to Arabs and Jews |
| Holocaust | The murder of 6 million Jews by Nazi Germans during World War II |
| Yitzhak Rabin | Israeli leader who was assassinated in 1995 by a Jew |
| President Bill Clinton | US leader who helped the Palestinians and Isrealis work toward peace |
| PLO or Palestine Liberation Organization | A group that represented the Palestinians after they lost all their territory to Israel |
| Zion | The biblical name of Jerusalem |
| Intiada | Arabic word for uprising: began in 1987 when the Palestinians rioted against Israel control |
| 14 million | The number of regular people or citizens killed in Europe during World War II |
| Arab | The ethnic group of Palestinians |
| Islam | The religion of Palestinians |
