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Date Posted: 05:01:14 11/16/04 Tue
Hi all,
More and more on middle east. I find mun's orginal explanation a trife extreme and seems to side the Jews really. From these paragraphs below, seems that Palestine has been occupied by various religions, muslim and jews during different period of time so i dont think it is as mun said that nobody else stay there before. Afterall Jerusalam is a Holy place for both the Jews and Muslim.
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The Canaanites were the earliest known inhabitants of Palestine (3rd millennium BC). Egypt was the first adjacent power to conquer the region (3rd millennium BC). During the 2nd millennium BC Egyptian hegemony and Canaanite autonomy were challenged by various invaders. However, these invaders were defeated by the Egyptians and absorbed by the Canaanites. As Egyptian power began to weaken after the 14th century BC, new invaders appeared: the Hebrews (Semitic tribes from Mesopotamia) and the Philistines (an Aegean people of Indo-European stock).
The Israelites, a confederation of Hebrew tribes, defeated the Canaanites about 1125 BC but were defeated by the Philistines about 1050 BC. The Israelites united for protection, and their king, David, finally defeated the Philistines after 1000 BC. David established a state, with its capital at Jerusalem. In 722 BC the new state fell to Assyria, and Judah was conquered in 586 BC by Babylonia, which destroyed Jerusalem and exiled most of the Jews.
When Cyrus the Great of Persia conquered Babylonia in 539 BC, he permitted the exiled Jews to return to Judea, a district of Palestine. Persian domination was replaced by Greek rule under Alexander the Great in 333 BC. Alexander was succeeded by the Ptolemies of Egypt and the Seleucids of Syria. In the 2nd century BC the Jews revolted and set up an independent state (141-63 BC) until Pompey the Great conquered Palestine for Rome.
Roman emperor Constantine legalized Christianity in AD 313, and Palestine became a focus of Christian pilgrimage. Roman rule ended when Muslim Arab armies regain Palestine and captured Jerusalem in AD 638. This conquest began 1300 years of Muslim presence. Palestine flourished during the first Muslim dynasty, but when power shifted to Baghdad in 750, Palestine became neglected. The region suffered successive domination by Seljuks, Fatimids, and European Crusaders and Ottoman.
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Eventually seems like it is the British that KPO and promised everything to everyone.
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Aided by Arabs, the British captured Palestine from the Ottomans in the winter of 1917 and 1918. In return for their help, the British had promised the Arabs independence. However, Britain had also promised France and Russia that it would divide the region with its allies, and had promised the Jews a national home in Palestine for their help. This last promise was incorporated in a mandate conferred on Britain by the League of Nations in 1922.
The British found their promises to the Jews and Arab Palestinians difficult to reconcile. After 1928, when Jewish immigration increased, British policy on the subject seesawed under conflicting pressures. Immigration rose sharply after the installation of the Nazi regime in Germany in 1933, and fear of Jewish domination was the principal cause of an Arab revolt (1936-1939).
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