UN vote calls on Israel to halt settlements

Q: The United Nations security council adopted a landmark resolution demanding a halt to all Israeli settlement in the occupied territories after Barack Obama’s administration refused to veto the resolution. Where is Israel?

Circle the area on this map


Q: Jewish settlers have built 125 settlements and 100 outposts throughout the area known as the West Bank and in East Jerusalem, which Israel occupied after the Six-Day War in 1967. Before the war, the territory had been ruled by Israel’s eastern neighbor . . . .

A. Egypt

B. Jordan

C. Lebanon

D. Syria

Q: Besides Jordan, Israel has seized and occupied territory from what other nation?

A. Egypt

B. Lebanon

C. Syria

D. All of the above

Q: Which of Israel’s neighbors was the first Arab nation to officially recognize the state of Israel?

A. Egypt

B. Jordan

C. Lebanon

D. Syria

Q: Israeli and Palestinian leaders agreed to the principal of a two-state solution to their conflict in an 1993 accord signed in Norway’s capital . . .

A. Copenhagen

B. Helsinki

C. Oslo

D. Stockholm


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