Palestine is not a
country and never was.
One could say the
same about Israel.
However, the
Israelites did make a country out of the land.
Although
I believe and so do
many, that Israel can do much better with another president!
The battle for this
land has been going on for hundreds of years and will continue until the 'End
of Time'!
Read on and form
your own opinion?
The history of
Palestine is the study of the past in the region of Palestine,
generally defined as a geographic region in the Southern Levant
between the Mediterranean Sea and the Jordan River
Situated at a
strategic point between Europe,
Asia, and Africa, and the birthplace of Judaism and Christianity,
the region has a
long and tumultuous history as a crossroads for religion, culture, commerce,
and politics.
The Palestine region
or parts of it have been controlled by numerous different peoples and regional
powers, including
the Canaanites, Amorites, Ancient Egyptians,
Israelites, Moabites, Ammonites, Tjeker, Philistines, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, ancient Greeks, Romans, Byzantines,
different dynasties
of the Early Muslim period
(Umayads,
Abbasids, Seljuqs, Fatimids), Crusaders, Late
Muslim dynasties (Ayyubids,
Mamluks, Ottoman Turks)
The 1948
Arab–Israeli War, or the First Arab–Israeli War, was fought between the State of Israel and a
military coalition of Arab states over the control of Palestine, forming the
second stage of the 1948
Palestine war.
The Suez Crisis,
or
the Second
Arab–Israeli War,
also named the
Tripartite Aggression (in the Arab
world) and Operation Kadesh or Sinai War (in Israel), was an invasion of Egypt in late 1956 by Israel,
the June War, 1967
Arab–Israeli War,
or
Third Arab–Israeli
War, was fought between June 5 and 10, 1967 by Israel and the neighboring
states of Egypt (known at the
time as the United
Arab Republic), Jordan,
and Syria.
Who owns the land
(Israel), in question?
On the Gregorian
calendar
the one you might
have on your wall) the year was 1488 BC.
On the Hebrew
calendar,
sometimes called the
biblical calendar, the year was 2559 AM
