Jul 19, 2014 9:45 PM GMT
Just wondering what the gays think of the current conflict... Might hv to cancel that trip to Tel Aviv now that it's within rocket range lol
c. 1200 BC – The conquest of Canaan by Joshua.
c. 1026 BC – Saul becomes the first king of the United Kingdom of Israel.
In the 330s BCE, Alexander the Great conquered Palestine, and the region changed hands numerous times during the wars of the Diadochi, ultimately joining the Seleucid Empire between 219–200 BCE. In 116 BCE, a Seleucid civil war resulted in the independence of certain regions including the minor Hasmonean principality in the Judean Mountains. From 110 BCE, the Hasmoneans extended their authority over much of Palestine, creating a Judean–Samaritan–Idumaean–Ituraean–Galilean alliance.[3] The Judean (Jewish, see Ioudaioi) control over the wider region resulted in it also becoming known as Judaea
Under the Ottomans, Palestine's Arab population mostly saw themselves as Ottoman subjects...In the 1830s, Palestine was occupied by the Egyptian vassal of the Ottomans...In 1882 the population numbered approximately 320,000 people, 25,000 of whom were Jewish...At the beginning of the 20th century, a "local and specific Palestinian patriotism" emerged. The Palestinian identity grew progressively. In 1911...the first Palestinian nationalist organisations appeared
Genetic analysis suggests that a majority of the Muslims of Palestine, inclusive of Arab citizens of Israel, are descendants of Christians, Jews and other earlier inhabitants of the southern Levant whose core may reach back to prehistoric times. A study of high-resolution haplotypes demonstrated that a substantial portion of Y chromosomes of Israeli Jews (70%) and of Palestinian Muslim Arabs (82%) belonged to the same chromosome pool.
Lincsbear saidIt would have been better if a single state had been created in 1948: secular, democratic, etc.and for all peoples who live there already, regardless of religious affliation, ethnicity, etc.
What was produced is, and has proved to be, unstable and divisive. Conflict was always going to be highly likely.
tj85016 saidthe creation of Israel by decree was one of the dumbest decisions ever made by humankind
who could possibly criticize the Palestinians for what they do?
xrichx saidI think everyone is more interested in when the next iphone comes out.
joe_m92 saidA very simple look at the modern history of the region shows that Jews were present in Palestine but in small numbers.
Lincsbear saidIt would have been better if a single state had been created in 1948: secular, democratic, etc.and for all peoples who live there already, regardless of religious affliation, ethnicity, etc.
What was produced is, and has proved to be, unstable and divisive. Conflict was always going to be highly likely.
carew28 saidThe geographic boundaries between Israel and Palestine are too intertwined
A secular state inclusive of both Jews and Moslems would be fairer, and more practical, in the long term.