ABSTRACT

Movements; Oil; Palestinian Issue; Religion; Saudi Arabia; Society; World War II; Zionism.

Beginning with Israel’s declaration of statehood in 1948, an ongoing conflict between Israel and various Arab nations and Palestinian groups. Central to the conflict are the longtime refusal of many Arab nations and organizations to recognize Israel’s right to exist, displacement of hundreds of thousands of Palestinian refugees, friction between Israel as a Jewish state and its Muslim neighbors, and questions about the status of Palestinians living in Israel, the occupied territories, and the rest of the Arab world.