Beirut+to+Jerusalem+Vocab

=Important Terms/People/Groups in //From Beirut to Jerusalem//=


 * Important Leaders (by no means in order or complete--under construction)
 * Camille Chamoun (Lebanon)
 * Yasir Arafat (PLO)
 * Saddam Hussein (Iraq)
 * King Hussein (Jordan)
 * Anwar Sadat (Egypt)
 * Gamal Abdel Nasser (Egypt)
 * Hafez al-Assad (Syria)
 * Ariel Sharon (Israel)
 * Menachem Begin (Israel)
 * Bashir Gemayel (Lebanon)
 * Amin Gemayel (Lebanon)
 * Michel Aoun (Lebanon)
 * David Ben-Gurion (Zionist/Israel)
 * Theodore Herzl (Zionist)
 * Kemal Jumblat (Lebanon)
 * Ayatollayh Khomeini (Iran)
 * Shimon Peres (Israel)
 * Important Organizations/Parties/Groups (by no means in order or complete-- under construction)
 * al-Fatah (Palestinian liberation)
 * PLO (Palestinian liberation)
 * Hamas (Palestinian Islamic fundamentalist org.)
 * Muslim Brotherhood (Sunni muslim org.)
 * Ba'ath Party
 * Phalange party/militia
 * Israeli Labor Party
 * Israeli Likud Party
 * Hizbullah (Shi'ite radical pro-Iranian org.)
 * Tehiya Party (right-wing Israeli party)
 * Haredim (ultra-orthodox Jews)
 * Secular Jews
 * Arab League (est. 1945)
 * Palestine National Council (PLO's "parliament-in-exile")
 * Important Terms (by no means in order or complete-- under construction)
 * //la'am//
 * Gush Emunim
 * //intifada//
 * ben-gurionism
 * islamic fundamentalism
 * jihad
 * kibbutz
 * Hama Rules
 * Ashura
 * lebanese "green line"
 * Shin Bet
 * aliya
 * zionism