1. “Peace in the Middle East”
Creation of Israel

2. Middle East Vocabulary
• PLO- • Terrorism-
Palestinian Liberation Orgization
Use of fear and violence to gain
• Jihad- control
Religious War • Extremist-
• Shi’ite- Religion to extreme, uses terrorism
Extremist religious sect • Islamic
• Hamas- Fundamentalism-
Islamic/Muslim resistance group Diverse political/social movements in
Muslim countries
• Ayatollah-
Most educated shi’ite.Legal Expert
• Shah-
Leader of Iran,(Muslim)
• R.Khomeini-
Lead resistance in Iran
• Hejab-
Traditional Islamic Woman Dress
• Al Queda-
• Taliban-
Extremist group, use terror
tactic Strict Islamic Regime

3. Middle East

4. Dessert Gold
Adding trouble to turmoil in the
Middle East

5. The Trouble with Power
• What are the two most important
resource in the Middle East?
• What is the land/geography of the
Middle East?
• What is the culture of the Middle
east?
• What are some middle eastern
countries?

6. The Trouble with Power
• Oil and Water
• Limited rain fall, desserts, mountains,
densely populated near water reserves,
scarcely populated further away
• Culturally diverse, 30+ different languages,
ties to tradition and independence, long
lasting territory disputes
• Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel,
Palestine, Saudi Arabia

7. Middle East Tensions
• How did the Arab-Israeli conflict affect
US relations with the Middle East?
• Who are some members of OPEC?
• What is the common form of government in
the Middle East?
• What type of economic policies did some
middle eastern countries try in the 1950’s?

8. Middle East Tensions
• Tensions between which side the US stands
on, causes a tangle of alliances. (US
supports Israel, but has trade agreements
with other nations who are against Israel
which causes tension)
• Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Kuwait
• Authoritarian, single party, dictator or
monarch
• Socialism

10. Whoever controls the Water
controls Life
• Why is water such an important
resource?
• Why is control of the rivers so
important in the Middle East?
• How can this control add to the
tensions in the Middle East?

11. Whoever controls the Water
controls Life
• Water is vital to live and limited in most
Middle Eastern territories and population
is growing
• Control of water gives a country power and
control over other area’s
• Countries will become dependant and
resentful and dispute the control if the
river flows through numerous areas/
country in control and shut off water
supplies

12. Black Gold
• Why is oil considered to be “black gold”?
• Why is oil currently more important then
water, in the Middle East?
• How does oil add to the “Have/Have Not’s”
tensions?
• Why do you think that most Middle
Eastern territories have authoritarian
governments ruling their country?

13. Black Gold
• For the amount of foreign money it brings
the country
• Right now, the whole world and major
superpowers are dependent on oil
• Countries that have oil have money to
modernize and survive. Countries that
don’t, struggle and are still backwards
• Need a tight control of resources, greed,
safety of their country’s survival

14. Black Gold Problems
• How does religion play a role in the
fight to control oil, water and peace?
• Why do you think countries, such as
the United States have a strong
military presence in the Middle East?
• How do foreign relations play a role in
oil trade?

15. Black Gold Problems
• Belief that you have the ancient right to
live and control your area, but everyone
claims the same spot
• Maintain peace, ensure safety of oil
reserves, follow UN policies to protect
human rights
• If Middle Eastern country does not get
along with foreign country, shut off oil
trade

16. Islamic Revival
• What is the Islamic Revival?
• How does it affect foreign relations?
• How does this revival affect
extremist groups in the Middle East?
• Are all extremists terrorists?

17. Islamic Revival
• Bringing back traditional religious values
• Does not like western influence, increase
tensions between Islamic reformists and
the west
• They used the revival as justification for
terrorist acts
• No. There are terrorists that claim to be
reformists.

18. Taliban

19. Hejab

20. Israel 1948

21. Creation of Israel
1. What is Zionism?
2. What was the Balfour Declaration?
3. How did the Balfour Declaration
impact the Zionist movement?

22. Creation of Israel
1. What is Zionism?
Zionism is the ideology holds that the Jews are a people or nation like
any other, and should gather together in a single homeland.
Zionists were in support of creating Israel.
2. What was the Balfour Declaration?
The Balfour Declaration, a letter from British Foreign Secretary
Arthur James Balfour to Lord Rothschild in which the British
made public their support of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
3. Gave foreign support to Zionism

23. Your Turn
• Using your knowledge of the Middle
East, research 3 current event issues
within the last 3 days. Who was
involved, what was the issue, what
was the US/UN response?