Posted on 04/08/2002 12:52:26 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
3000BC -- Canaanites inhabit Palestine
1125BC -- Israelites conquer the Canaanites
1050BC -- Philistines conquer Israelites.
1000BC -- Under King David, Israelites conquer Philistines and establish the nation of Israel. After his son, King Solomon dies, Israel becomes divided: the north becoming Israel and the south becoming Judah.
722BC -- Israel falls to Assyria
586BC -- Babylon captures Judah -- This defeat resulted in the destruction of Jerusalem and the exile of most of the Jews to Babylon -- the so-called Babylonian captivity.
539BC -- Under Cyrus the Great, the Persians conquered Babylonia. The Jews were allowed to return to Judaea, a district in Palestine.
333BC -- Alexander the Great captures Palestine. His successors -- the Egyptian Ptolemies and the Syrian Seleucids -- tried without success to force Greek culture and religion on the people.
141-63BC -- The Jews revolted and established an independent state. This lasted until Pompey the Great conquered Palestine for Rome and made it a province of the Roman Empire ruled by Jewish kings. Rome ruled Palestine for about 700 years.
638AD -- Palestine is invaded by Muslim Arab armies that capture Jerusalem. Thus begins 1300 years of Muslim presence in what becomes known as Filastin.
1517 -- The Mamelukes are defeated by the Ottomans, who rule Palestine for the next four hundred years -- until the winter of 1917-18.
1880s -- With the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe, Jews begin to migrate to Palestine.
1917-18 -- The British takes Palestine from the Ottomans at the end of World War I.
1917 -- Britain creates Balfour Declaration that outlines conditions to create a "national home" for Jews in Palestine. With this declaration, Britain hoped to gain the support of the Jews for the Allied cause in World War I.
July 24 1922 -- The declaration was incorporated into the League of Nations mandate for Palestine. It outlines the terms under which Britain was given responsibility for temporary administration of the country. The mandate lasted from 1922-1948.
1935 -- Over 60,000 Jews come into Palestine.
1936 -- Because of a fear of Jewish domination, an Arab revolt broke out. This continues on and off until 1939.
1947 -- Britain declares the mandate unworkable and passes the problem over to the United Nations. Under David Ben-Gurion, the Jewish army fights against the Arab
Palestinians and defeats them.
On May 14th 1948, the State of Israel is created. Because of this, five Arab states, in support of the Palestinians, attack the new state but are defeated. This is known as the first Arab-Israeli War. As a result of the war, 780,000 Palestinians became refugees.
1964 -- The Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) is founded as a political body representing the Palestinians.
1967 -- In another war between Israel and the Arabs (commonly known as the Six Days War), Israel gains control of the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and other areas previously controlled by the Arabs.
1970 -- The PLO commandos fight with the Jordanian army. The PLO is expelled from the country and settles in Lebanon. The Israeli invasion of Lebanon is 1982 is conducted to disperse some 12,000 PLO members to Syria and other Arab countries.
1988 -- All territorial claims to the Israeli-held West Bank are ceded to the PLO by Jordanian King Hussein.
In December, the United States agrees for the first time to begin direct contact with the PLO.
1991 -- After the Gulf War, the Syrian-backed Lebanese army forced the PLO to retreat from its positions in southern Lebanon.
After decades of violence, conflict and disagreement, PLO leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin meet in the United States on 13 September (1993) to witness the signing of a peace accord between the two groups. The plan stipulated Palestinian self-rule in Israeli-occupied areas, beginning with the Gaza Strip and Jericho.
In May 1994, Palestinian control and administration of these areas began. Israeli forces withdraw from Jericho and the Gaza Strip. The Palestinian National Authority assumes control of the areas.
1995 -- Israeli Prime Minister Rabin is assassinated by an Israeli opposed to the peace accord.
1996 -- Binyamin Netanyahu wins the election. Arab leaders are upset by his ultra-conservative views. Netanyahu considerably slows down the peace process.
1998 -- Netanyahu and Arafat meet for peace negotiations at Aspen Institute's Wye River Conference Centre. On 23 October the peace deal is signed (the Wye Accord).
In December, 1998, as part of the Wye Accord, members of the Palestine National Council voted to remove clauses from the PLO's charter that call for the destruction of Israel.
May 1999 -- Israelis elect a new Prime Minister, Ehud Barak, to lead them in the peace process with the Palestinians and neighbouring states.
Sept 2000 -- Intense violence escalates. More than 400 people die in Israel in a matter of 14 weeks (380 Palestinians).
December 2000 -- Barak resigns.
February 2001-- Ariel Sharon is elected Prime Minister. Sharon's victory comes 18 years after an Israeli government investigation found Sharon indirectly responsible for the Sabra and Shatila massacre, in which hundreds of Palestinian refugees were killed in Lebanon, and forced his removal as defense minister, crushing his political ambitions.
He was elected to restore Israel's peace and security in the wake of four-month-long clashes between Palestinians and Israelis. (Ironically, the violence that has killed so far more than 360 Palestinians and over 50 Israeli Jews began at the end of September, after Sharon paid a controversial visit to a Jerusalem shrine.)
Acting like the area was full of Palestinians since 3000 B.C. is pure propaganda.
I am a Palestinian
Who says so?
The PLO Charter
Article 5: The Palestinians are those Arab nationals who, until 1947, normally resided in Palestine regardless of whether they were evicted from it or have stayed there. Anyone born, after that date, of a Palestinian father - whether inside Palestine or outside it - is also a Palestinian.
Article 6: The Jews who had normally resided in Palestine until the beginning of the Zionist invasion will be considered Palestinians.
By these two articles- by their criteria. I am a Palestinian
Everything after The Mamelukes are defeated by the Ottomans is loaded with liberal propaganda, and should be taken with a "Barf Alert".
Also intersting how this skips from:
May 1999 -- Israelis elect a new Prime Minister, Ehud Barak, to lead them in the peace process with the Palestinians and neighbouring states.
To:
Sept 2000 -- Intense violence escalates. More than 400 people die in Israel in a matter of 14 weeks (380 Palestinians).
There's a lot of filler missing between these two dates, no?
Like:
* Barak offers 85%+ (I forget the exact number) of the West Bank & Gaza as a Palestinian state, as peice of land that comes within 9 miles of the Mediterranean (and of TelAviv). Arafat abruptly cancels teh talks and walks away.
* A controversy erupts when it's discovered that construction workers on the Temple Mount are destroying ancient artifacts from the Jewish Temple.
* The Al-Aqsa Intifada erupts - supposedly because there is one Jew in the world - Ariel Sharon - who is forbidden from visiting Judaism's holiest site - the Temple Mount - on fear of deadly Jihad. Even though he's visiting as a member of the Knesset investigating the destruction of ancient artifacts.
No, it's not.
Do you realize what the Jews did when they returned into this region? It blossomed! They did in less than 100 years what Arabs never could do in the same sort of region.
That "rocky scrub land" as you call it is now a flower in the desert.
Furthermore, the Crusader armies controlled the holy land from 1100 to about 1210. But I see no mention of this.
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