Palestinian History and Politics

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  1. Complete the sentence about State of Palestine with the correct year: In ______, internal divisions between political factions led to a takeover of Gaza by Hamas.
  2. Complete the sentence about Palestinian National Authority with the correct year: In the Palestinian legislative elections on 25 January ______, Hamas emerged victorious and nominated Ismail Haniyeh a…
  3. Complete the sentence about Palestinian National Authority with the correct year: General elections were held for its first legislative body, the Palestinian Legislative Council, on 20 January ______.
  4. Complete the sentence about Palestine Liberation Organization with the correct year: As the officially recognized government of the State of Palestine, it has enjoyed United Nations observer status si…
  5. Complete the sentence about Palestine Liberation Organization with the correct year: At its first summit meeting in Cairo in ______, the Arab League initiated the creation of an organization represent…
  6. Complete the sentence with the correct year: The Palestinian National Council convened in Jerusalem on 28 May ______.
  7. Complete the sentence with the correct year: After concluding the meeting, the PLO was founded on 2 June ______.
  8. Complete the sentence about Palestine Liberation Organization with the correct year: In ______, the Black September Organization, whose relationship to the PLO is disputed, carried out the Munich mass…
  9. Complete the sentence about Yasser Arafat with the correct year: In ______, he returned to Palestine, settling in Gaza City and promoting self-governance for the Palestinian territories.
  10. Complete the sentence about Mahmoud Abbas with the correct year: Abbas served as the first prime minister of the Palestinian Authority from March to September ______.
  11. Complete the sentence about Mahmoud Abbas with the correct year: While there in ______, he was recruited to become a member of Fatah, founded by Yasser Arafat and five other Palestinians in Kuwait in…
  12. Complete the sentence about Mahmoud Abbas with the correct year: According to Abu Daoud, part of the funds raised by Abbas were used, without the latter's knowledge, to implement the ______ Munich mas…
  13. Complete the sentence about Mohammad Shtayyeh with the correct year: Shtayyeh was a member of the Palestinian advance team at the Madrid Conference in ______ and a member of the Palestinian negotiatio…
  14. Complete the sentence about Mohammad Shtayyeh with the correct year: Shtayyeh graduated from Birzeit University with a bachelor's degree in business administration and economics in ______.
  15. Complete the sentence about Salam Fayyad with the correct year: The party was not successful, and Fayyad returned as Finance Minister in the March ______ Unity Government.
  16. Complete the sentence about Ismail Haniyeh with the correct year: After his release in ______, he was exiled to Lebanon, returning a year later to become a dean at Gaza's Islamic University.
  17. Complete the sentence about Ismail Haniyeh with the correct year: Haniyeh was appointed to head a Hamas office in ______ and subsequently rose in the ranks of the organization.
  18. Complete the sentence about Khalil al-Wazir with the correct year: Prior to and during Israel's ______ invasion of Lebanon, al-Wazir planned numerous attacks inside Israel against both civilian and mi…
  19. Complete the sentence about Khalil al-Wazir with the correct year: On 16 April ______, he was assassinated at his home in Tunis by Israeli commandos.
  20. Complete the sentence about Khalil al-Wazir with the correct year: Khalil al-Wazir was born in ______ to Sunni Muslim parents in the city of Ramla, Palestine, then under British Mandatory rule.
  21. Complete the sentence about Fatah with the correct year: Fatah became the dominant force in Palestinian politics after the Six-Day War in ______.
  22. Complete the sentence about Fatah with the correct year: Fatah's Arafat became Chairman of the PLO in ______, after the position was ceded to him by Yahya Hammuda.
  23. Complete the sentence about Fatah with the correct year: The town's name is the Arabic word for dignity, which elevated its symbolism to the Arab people, especially after the Arab defeat in ______.
  24. Complete the sentence about Hamas with the correct year: The Hamas movement was founded by Palestinian Islamic scholar Ahmed Yassin in ______ after the outbreak of the First Intifada against the Israe…
  25. Complete the sentence about Hamas with the correct year: In the ______ Battle of Gaza, Hamas seized control of the Gaza Strip from rival Palestinian faction Fatah.
  26. Complete the sentence about Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine with the correct year: As of ______, the PFLP has boycotted participation in both the PLO Executive Committee and the Palestin…
  27. Complete the sentence about Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine with the correct year: Habash finished his medical education in Lebanon at the American University in Beirut, graduating in __…
  28. Complete the sentence with the correct year: After ______ the DFLP received $1 million per month from Libya.
  29. Complete the sentence about Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine with the correct year: The group's largest attack was the Ma'alot massacre of ______, an attack on an Israeli school in whi…
  30. Complete the sentence about Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine with the correct year: During the ______ meeting of the PNC, the DFLP expressed support for the establishment of an indepen…
  31. Complete the sentence about Palestinian Islamic Jihad with the correct year: The aim of the organization was the establishment of a sovereign Islamic Palestinian state within the geographic borders of…
  32. Complete the sentence about Palestinian Islamic Jihad with the correct year: Palestinian Islamic Jihad only announced its existence publicly on December 11th ______, but its existence was already wide…
  33. Complete the sentence about Palestinian National Council with the correct year: Though not members of PLO, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad members were invited to the PNC as observers in ______, a…
  34. Complete the sentence about Palestinian Declaration of Independence with the correct year: In April ______, the PLO Central Council elected Arafat as the first president of the State of Palestine.
  35. Complete the sentence about Palestinian Declaration of Independence with the correct year: In September ______ Egyptian forces captured the Gaza strip and kept it under military rule.
  36. Complete the sentence about Palestinian Declaration of Independence with the correct year: Until the Six-Day War in June ______ these two territories remained under Jordanian and Egyptian rule.
  37. Complete the sentence about Palestinian Declaration of Independence with the correct year: In ______, Palestine was upgraded to the status of non-member observer state in the UN.
  38. Complete the sentence about Palestinian Declaration of Independence with the correct year: The ______ declaration does not explicitly recognize the State of Israel.
  39. Complete the sentence about Oslo Accords with the correct year: The Oslo Accords are based on the ______ Camp David Accords and show therefore considerable similarity with those Accords.
  40. Complete the sentence about Oslo Accords with the correct year: The Oslo Accords, like the ______ Camp David Accords, merely aimed at an interim agreement that allowed first steps.
  41. Complete the sentence about Oslo Accords with the correct year: In their Letters of Mutual Recognition of 9 September ______, days before the signing of the Oslo I Accord, each party agreed to accept…
  42. Complete the sentence about Oslo Accords with the correct year: The Oslo process is the "peace process" that started in ______ with secret talks between Israel and the PLO.
  43. Complete the sentence about Oslo II Accord with the correct year: The ______ Road map for peace abandoned the Oslo Accords and envisioned a rather loose scheme of withdrawal.
  44. Complete the sentence about Camp David 2000 Summit with the correct year: On 11 July, the Camp David ______ Summit convened, although the Palestinians considered the summit premature.
  45. Complete the sentence about Madrid Conference of 1991 with the correct year: Subsequent bilateral meetings took place in Washington starting 9 December ______.
  46. Complete the sentence about Madrid Conference of 1991 with the correct year: Secretary Baker made frequent shuttle trips to the region between March and October ______ in an attempt to find a procedur…
  47. Complete the sentence about Madrid Conference of 1991 with the correct year: By early September ______, the Administration asked Congress for a 120-day delay on the loan guarantees.
  48. Complete the sentence about Taba Summit with the correct year: The talks ended on 27 January ______ due to the upcoming Israeli election, and the new Ariel Sharon government did not restart them.
  49. Complete the sentence about Taba Summit with the correct year: The parties had first negotiated at Bolling Air Force Base in Washington, hosted by President Bill Clinton from 19 to 23 December ______.
  50. Complete the sentence about Arab Peace Initiative with the correct year: The Israeli government under Ariel Sharon rejected the initiative as a "non-starter" because it required Israel to withdraw to…
  51. Complete the sentence about Arab Peace Initiative with the correct year: The Arab League summit held after the Six-Day War, during which Israel occupied large swathes of Arab territory, established th…
  52. Complete the sentence about Arab Peace Initiative with the correct year: Like most peace plans since ______, it was based on UN Security Council Resolution 242.
  53. Complete the sentence about Arab Peace Initiative with the correct year: During this period, the Bush administration hoped to draw attention away from the Iraq disarmament crisis that would later esca…
  54. Complete the sentence about Roadmap for peace with the correct year: A draft version from the Bush administration was published as early as 14 November ______.
  55. Complete the sentence about Roadmap for peace with the correct year: The draft version from the Bush administration was published as early as 14 November ______.
  56. Complete the sentence about Roadmap for peace with the correct year: The EU pushed the Quartet to present the final text on 20 December ______, but failed, due to Israeli opposition.
  57. Complete the sentence about Second Intifada with the correct year: After March ______, approximately 138 suicide bombings were conducted by these factions, primarily targeting Israeli civilians.
  58. Complete the sentence about 1948 Arab–Israeli War with the correct year: The war formally ended with the ______ Armistice Agreements which established the Green Line.
  59. Complete the sentence about 1948 Arab–Israeli War with the correct year: Just before the expiration of the British Mandate for Palestine, Zionist leaders announced the Israeli Declaration of Independe…
  60. Complete the sentence about Nakba with the correct year: In ______, the Palestinian poet Burhan al-Deen al-Abushi used the word again.
  61. Complete the sentence about Palestinian refugees with the correct year: The Six-Day War of ______ generated a new wave of Palestinian refugees who could not be included in the original UNRWA definitio…
  62. Complete the sentence about United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine with the correct year: In a letter to his son in October ______, Ben-Gurion explained that partition would be a first step to "p…
  63. Complete the sentence about Mandatory Palestine with the correct year: From ______, Britain administered the territory under the Mandate for Palestine with the British High Commissioner under the Colo…
  64. Complete the sentence about Mandatory Palestine with the correct year: Another issue that later arose was the Balfour Declaration of ______, in which Britain promised its support for the establishment…
  65. Complete the sentence about Mandatory Palestine with the correct year: All Class A mandates other than Mandatory Palestine had gained independence by ______.
  66. Complete the sentence about British Mandate for Palestine with the correct year: Two weeks later, British Colonial Secretary Arthur Creech Jones announced that the British Mandate would end on 15 May…
  67. Complete the sentence about British Mandate for Palestine with the correct year: The addition of Transjordan was given legal form on 21 March ______, when the British incorporated Article 25 into the…
  68. Complete the sentence about Balfour Declaration with the correct year: The text of the declaration was published in the press on 9 November ______.
  69. Complete the sentence about Balfour Declaration with the correct year: Following Britain's declaration of war on the Ottoman Empire in November ______, it had begun to consider the future of Palestine…
  70. Complete the sentence about Balfour Declaration with the correct year: A committee was established in April ______ by British prime minister H.
  71. Complete the sentence about Balfour Declaration with the correct year: Asquith, who had favoured post-war reform of the Ottoman Empire, resigned in December ______; his replacement David Lloyd George…
  72. Complete the sentence about Balfour Declaration with the correct year: The first negotiations between the British and the Zionists took place at a conference on 7 February ______ that included Sir Mar…
  73. Complete the sentence about Balfour Declaration with the correct year: A stalemate in southern Palestine was broken by the Battle of Beersheba on 31 October ______.
  74. Complete the sentence about Sykes–Picot Agreement with the correct year: The agreement was ratified by their respective governments on 9 and 16 May ______.
  75. Complete the sentence about Sykes–Picot Agreement with the correct year: Italy assented to the agreement in ______ via the Agreement of Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne and received southern Anatolia.
  76. Complete the sentence about Sykes–Picot Agreement with the correct year: More broadly it was to lead, indirectly, to the subsequent partitioning of the Ottoman Empire following Ottoman defeat in _____…
  77. Complete the sentence about Ottoman Palestine with the correct year: In ______, hostilities broke out between the Mamluk Sultanate and the Ottoman Turks in a battle for control over western Asia.
  78. Complete the sentence about Ottoman Palestine with the correct year: The Ottoman Empire proceeded to conquer Palestine following their ______ victory over the Mamluks at the Battle of Marj Dabiq.
  79. Complete the sentence about Mamluk Sultanate with the correct year: The Mamluks under Sultan Qutuz and Baybars routed the Mongols in ______, halting their southward expansion.
  80. Complete the sentence about Mamluk Sultanate with the correct year: In ______, Louis IX of France captured Damietta during the Seventh Crusade.
  81. Complete the sentence about Crusader states with the correct year: The description Crusader states can be misleading, as from ______ onwards, very few people among the Franks were Crusaders.
  82. Complete the sentence about Crusader states with the correct year: By ______, the Crusaders' armed pilgrimage to Jerusalem was passing through the Syria region.
  83. Complete the sentence about Crusader states with the correct year: In ______, Edessa fell to the Zengid Turks, but the other three realms endured until the final years of the 13th century, when they f…
  84. Complete the sentence with the correct year: Following the Third Crusade, it was re-established in Acre in ______.
  85. Complete the sentence about Saladin with the correct year: Saladin was sent to Fatimid Egypt in ______, alongside his uncle Shirkuh, a Kurdish mercenary commander in service of the Zengid dynasty, on…
  86. Complete the sentence about Saladin with the correct year: After Shawar was assassinated and Shirkuh died in ______, al-Adid appointed Saladin as vizier.
  87. Complete the sentence about Saladin with the correct year: Not long after Nur ad-Din died in ______, Saladin launched his conquest of Syria, peacefully entering Damascus at the request of its governor…
  88. Complete the sentence about Saladin with the correct year: By ______, Saladin had completed the conquest of Syria after capturing Aleppo but failed to take over the Zengid stronghold of Mosul.
  89. Complete the sentence about Saladin with the correct year: Saladin died in Damascus in ______, having given away much of his personal wealth to his subjects; he is buried in a mausoleum adjacent to th…
  90. Complete the sentence about Battle of Hattin with the correct year: The Battle of Hattin took place on 4 July ______, between the Crusader states of the Levant and the forces of the Ayyubid Sultanate…
  91. Complete the sentence about Battle of Hattin with the correct year: Guy of Lusignan became king of Jerusalem in ______, in right of his wife, Sibylla, after the death of her son Baldwin V.
  92. Complete the sentence about Battle of Hattin with the correct year: Saladin often made strategic truces with the Franks when he needed to deal with political problems in the Muslim world, and one such…
  93. Complete the sentence about Battle of Hattin with the correct year: In ______ Raynald of Châtillon raided a Muslim Hajj caravan while the truce with Saladin was still in place.
  94. Complete the sentence about Battle of Hattin with the correct year: Gerard de Ridefort and the Templars engaged Gökböri in the Battle of Cresson in May ______ and were heavily defeated.
  95. Complete the sentence about Six-Day War with the correct year: In early November ______, Syrian president Nureddin al-Atassi signed a mutual defense agreement with Egypt.
  96. Complete the sentence about Six-Day War with the correct year: In May ______, Nasser received false reports from the Soviet Union that Israel was massing on the Syrian border.
  97. Complete the sentence about Yom Kippur War with the correct year: Most of the fighting occurred in the Sinai Peninsula and the Golan Heights, territories occupied by Israel in ______.
  98. Complete the sentence about Yom Kippur War with the correct year: The Arab position, as it emerged in September ______ at the Khartoum Arab Summit, was to reject any peaceful settlement with the State…
  99. Complete the sentence about Black September with the correct year: Hussein hesitated to oust them from the country, but continued PLO activities in Jordan culminated in the Dawson's Field hijackings o…
  100. Complete the sentence about Battle of Karameh with the correct year: Following the seizure of the West Bank from Jordan in the June ______ Six-Day War, Israel destroyed the existing Palestinian group…

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