Palestine Issue General Knowledge MCQs - 3

Palestine Issue General Knowledge MCQs - 3

1. The political faction of PLO is known as:
(a) Force 17
(b) Fatah ✓
(c) Al-Aqsa Martyr's Brigade
(d) Intifada

2. The first Palestinian Intifada began in:
(a) August 1980
(b) August 1987 ✓
(c) August 1994
(d) August 2001

3. The second Palestinian Intifada started in_____
(a) 2000 ✓
(b) 2001
(c) 2002
(d) 2003

4. Whose visit to the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in east Jerusalem sparked the Palestinian Intifada?
(a) Binyamin Nentanyahu
(b) Ariel Sharon ✓
(c) Shimon Peres
(d) Yatizhak Rabin

5. Which Hamas leader was martyred in an Israeli missile attack on 17 April 2004?
(a) Sheikh Ahmed Yasin
(b) Abudul Aziz al-Rantissi ✓
(c) Ali Hassan Salameh
(d) Mahmud Abbas

6. Who was the founder and spiritual leader of Hamas?
(a) Sheikh Ahmed Yasin ✓
(b) Abdul Aziz al-Rantissi
(c) Ali Hassan Salamah
(d) Mahmud Abbas

7. Which is the largest Palestinian militant organization?
(a) Hamas ✓
(b) Islamic Jihad
(c) Al-Aqsa Martyr’s Brigade
(d) Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO)

8. The peace negotiations culminated in the Oslo Accords of:
(a) September 1991
(b) September 1992
(c) September 1993 ✓
(d) September 1994

9. Oslo Accords was approved by the PLO Chairman Yasir Arafat, Israel’s then PM Yitzhak Rabin, and endorsed by US President:
(a) George Herbert Walker Bush
(b) Ronald Wilson Ragon
(c) Bill Clinton ✓
(d) Jimmy Carter

10. Which of the following is the Iranian-backed extremist Muslim faction based in Lebanon?
(a) Hamas (Zeal)
(b) Fatah (Victory)
(c) Hezbullah (Party of God) ✓
(d) Islamic Jihad

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