Israel is Terrorist
The history of Palestine encompasses thousands of years and many different peoples and civilizations that have inhabited the region. The earliest known civilization in Palestine was the Canaanite culture, which flourished from around 4500 BC to 1200 BC. By 1500 BC, various Semitic peoples began to inhabit the region, with the Israelites emerging as a distinct people around 1200 BC.
In 1020 BC, King David established Jerusalem as the capital of the United Kingdom of Israel. His son, King Solomon, built the First Temple in Jerusalem around 950 BC. After Solomon's death, the kingdom split into the northern Kingdom of Israel and the southern Kingdom of Judah. Both kingdoms experienced invasions and conquests by various peoples over the following centuries. The Assyrians captured the northern kingdom in 722 BC, deporting many Israelites. The Babylonians conquered the southern kingdom in 586 BC, destroying Solomon's Temple and exiling many Jews to Babylon.
After the fall of the Babylonian Empire in 539 BC, the Persian king Cyrus the Great allowed exiled Jews to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple. This marked the beginning of the Second Temple period. The region came under control of the Greek Seleucid Empire after Alexander the Great's conquests in the 4th century BC. In 167 BC, the Maccabees revolted against Hellenistic overlords and established an independent Jewish kingdom, which lasted until 63 BC when the Roman general Pompey conquered Jerusalem.
Under Roman rule, Herod the Great expanded the Second Temple in Jerusalem in 19 BC. However, tensions grew between the Jews and Roman authorities. From 66-70 AD, the First Jewish-Roman War culminated in the destruction of the Second Temple by the Roman legions led by Titus. Most Jews were expelled from Jerusalem, though a small Jewish presence remained. Roman rule continued over the region, which they renamed "Palestine" after the biblical Philistines.
In 324 AD, the Roman Emperor Constantine converted to Christianity, and Palestine became a center of Christian pilgrimage. The Samaritans revolted against Byzantine rule in 529 AD but were defeated. In 614 AD, Palestine was conquered by the Persian Sassanid Empire during the Byzantine–Sassanid war. In 637 AD, Muslim Arab forces under Caliph Umar ibn al-Khattab captured Jerusalem from the Byzantines, marking the beginning of Muslim rule in Palestine.
Under early Islamic rule, Palestine experienced a period of stability and prosperity. The Dome of the Rock was constructed on the Temple Mount between 688-691 AD. The Crusaders gained control of Jerusalem and much of Palestine in 1099 during the First Crusade. Their rule was marked by conflict between Muslims and Christians. In 1187, Saladin defeated the Crusaders at the Battle of Hattin and recaptured Jerusalem. His Ayyubid dynasty ruled Palestine until the 13th century.
In 1260, the Mongols invaded Palestine but were defeated by the Mamluks of Egypt. The Mamluks controlled Palestine until 1516 when the Ottoman Turks conquered the region. The Ottomans generally administered Palestine indirectly through local Arab leaders. Throughout Ottoman rule, Palestine remained a backwater province with a small, mainly rural population. In 1917, the British captured Palestine from the Ottomans during World War I.
In 1947, the newly-created United Nations adopted a partition plan to divide the British-controlled Mandate of Palestine into a Jewish state, an Arab state, and an internationally-administered Jerusalem. This led to civil war between Palestinian Jews and Arabs. In 1948, Israel declared independence and was immediately invaded by neighboring Arab armies. Around 700,000 Palestinians fled or were expelled during this war, becoming Palestinian refugees. Jordan annexed the West Bank and East Jerusalem while Egypt took control of the Gaza Strip.
From 1967-1993, Israel occupied the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza Strip after capturing these territories from Jordan and Egypt in the Six-Day War. The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) was formed in 1964 to represent Palestinian national aspirations. A Palestinian uprising (Intifada) broke out against Israeli occupation in 1987. In 1993, Israel and the PLO signed the Oslo Accords, recognizing mutual recognition and establishing Palestinian self-governance in parts of the occupied territories. However, a final peace agreement has remained elusive, and Israel continues to control and settle occupied Palestinian lands.
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