1. Fasting during Ramadan

2. (1957-2011 ) Saudi Arabian multimillionaire and leader of the terrorist organization al-Qaeda. He is responsible for numerous terrorist attacks on the United States including the destruction of the World Trade Center.

3. Which of these events MOST impacted the way Americans viewed the Middle East region?

4. Biological, chemical, or nuclear weapons that can cause a massive number of deaths in a single use.

5. a place of pilgrimage and worship for Jews, Christians and Muslims since the biblical era.

6. New Leader of Iran after American/British led coup. He was ruthless to his people.

7. After the formation of Israel on May 14, 1948, what was the reaction of surrounding Arab nations?

8. A group with a belief system in a god or gods, with a specific set of rituals and literature

9. Once Israel took control of the Gaza strip and West Bank, it began building Jewish towns and cities in these areas.

10. This is

11. Tax for charity; obligigatory for all Muslims.

12. a member of the branch of Islam that regards Ali as the legitimate successor to Mohammed and rejects the first three caliphs.

13. A fundamentalist Muslim movement whose militia took control of much of Afghanistan from early 1995, and in 1996 took Kabul and set up a radical Islamic state. The movement was forcibly removed from power by the US and its allies after the September 11, 2001 attacks.

14. This is

15. Arab homeland that has no permanent nation

16. A religion based on the teachings of the prophet Mohammed which stresses belief in one god (Allah) and a body of law written in the Quran. Followers are called Muslims.

17. 5 daily prayers, and the second pillar of Islam

18. Dictator of Iraq

19. US invades Afghanistan to eliminate Taliban to destroy Al Qaeda

20. Excerpt from United Nations Resolution 181 (1948)
Citizenship. Palestinian citizens residing in Palestine outside the City of Jerusalem, as well as Arabs and Jews who, not holding Palestinian citizenship, reside in Palestine outside the City of Jerusalem shall, upon the recognition of independence, become citizens of the State in which they are resident and enjoy full civil and political rights.
Using this, which statement BEST explains the reason for this resolution?

21. the ninth month of the Muslim year, during which strict fasting is observed from sunrise to sunset.

22. Series of dams built in Turkey giving them a water advantage

23. Which territory was controlled by Great Britain in the years following World War I and lost land when the nation of Israel was created in 1948?

24. A distinct ethnic group that lives in the mountainous areas where Syria, Turkey, Iran, and Iraq come together.

25. A Jewish state on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean, both in antiquity and again founded in 1948 after centuries of Jewish diaspora.