Nation Building in the Middle East: Palestine and Israel

Study Questions-Reading

The Earth and Its Peoples, 769-73, 848-50
1. Be able to identify the countries in Map 33.3.
2. Why did Zionist Jews and Arab Palestinians come into conflict from the 1920s onward?

The Human Record, pp. Andrea 424- 5, 430-3
1. What kind of nation did Zionists want? Why did they want it?

Study Questions-Reading/Lecture

1. What have been the causes of conflict between Zionist Jews and Arab Palestinians throughout the 20th century?
2. What role does nationalism play in this conflict?

Study Questions-Lecture

1. What are similarities and differences between the struggle to build nations in South Asia (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh) and the Middle East (Israel, Palestine)?