GMS 695 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Oslo I Accord, Mahmoud Abbas, Fatah

• School: Ryerson University
• Department: Global Management Studies
• Course: GMS 695
• Professor: Dale Carl

Document Summary

When the romans put down the jewish revolution in 70 ad, most jews were forced to flee to different countries. The whole region was part of the ottoman empire (turks) from 13th century until wwi. 60,000 jews from russia, poland, and romania emigrated from palestine from 1880-1914 to escape anti-semitism in e. europe. 1917: balfour declaration to get support of jews against turkey: british foreign minister declared his support for a jewish homeland in palestine, as long as it did not impinge on the rights of local people. After the defeat of turkey in 1918, the league of nations (predecessor of the united nations) gave britain the mandate to administer palestine and iraq. 1930s: large number of european jews emigrated to palestine out of fear of nazi germany. 1939-1945 (second world war): holocaust 6 million jews were killed by nazi germany in. 1947: un resolution 181 started that palestine should be divided to accommodate both jews and.