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Origins of Israel: mandates, Zionism and key terms
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- 1Ottoman Empire-weak
-joined the Central Powers in WWI
-when central powers lost, empire fell
-Arabs revolted against empire after being promised independence by the British, helped Britain gain control over Palestine - 2League of Nations-after WWI gave temporary mandates to Britain and France
-France got Syria & Lebanon
-Britain got Iraq and Palestine - 3Britain's interest in the Middle East-Britain was huge trading company and wanted control over Suez Canal so France couldn't have it
-access to India - 4Zionism-Jewish nationalism
-prominent leaders include Herzl and Weizmann
-Jewish history and culture is rooted in Israel
-viewed Israel as "a land without a people for a people without a land" - 5British alliance with Jews-Balfour Declaration: Nov. 1917 - supported establishment of Jewish national home in in Palestine; viewed as betrayal to the Arabs in Palestine
- 6UNSCOPIn May 1947, at the request of the United Kingdom, the UN formed this committee to prepare a report on recommendations for Palestine to be presented at the next session of the General Assembly; the majority proposal recommended the partition of Palestine into Arab and Jewish States
- 7Yishuvthe Jewish community in pre-State Palestine; those Jews who aspired to the national revival of the Jewish people in Palestine or Eretz Yisrael; two groups who excluded themselves from Yishuv: ultra-orthodox and communists
- 8Histadrutwas created as a trade union which would organize the economic activities of Jewish workers; strongly supported socialism
- 9kibbutzrural community; a society dedicated to mutual aid and social justice; a socioeconomic system based on the principle of joint ownership of property, equality and cooperation of production, consumption and education
- 10Hechalutza Jewish youth movement that trained young people for settling in the Land of Israel. It became an umbrella organization of the pioneering Zionist youth movements.
- 11Revisionistsideology included relentless pressure on Great Britain, including petitions and mass demonstrations, for Jewish statehood on both banks of the Jordan River; a Jewish majority in Palestine; augmented by Jabotinsky; The Revisionists waged a heated debate in the Zionist Organization. When their approach was rejected, they seceded from the ZO (1935) and established the New Zionist Organization
- 12Betaran activist Zionist youth movement; inculcated the ideals of aliyah to Ereẓ Israel by any means, legal and "illegal," and of personal dedicaton to the creation of a Jewish state "on both sides of the Jordan."
- 13MapaiIsrael's major labor party
- 14Hapo'el Hatza'irLabor Party, founded 1905 by pioneers of Second Aliyah, stressing Jewish labor as Zionist value; First Jewish workers' party founded in Palestine, whose members helped found the first kibbutz at Beit Alpha
- 15Ahdut Ha'avodaFounded in 1919, (Unity of Labor) merged with HaPoel HaTzair, in 1930, and formed Mapai
- 16Ben-Gurionthe first Prime Minister of Israel and widely hailed as the State's main founder;
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