Which best describes the role of Zionism in ongoing Middle East tensions? It created an independent Palestinian state opposed to Jewish people. It led to disagreements between Arabs and Jews over control of the Holy Land. It prompted the British to give up all claims in Palestine. It launched a war between moderate Arab nationalists and Islamists.
Zionism is a movement started in the late 1800s. Its goal was/is to create a home land for Jews in and around Jerusalem.
The UN created the state of Israel after WWII.