A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT
A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT It all began approximately two thousand years ago when the Babylonians took over the kingdoms of Judea and Israel around 586 BCE. Then came the Persian empire (539-332 BCE) and the Hellenists (332-141 BCE), and then it was briefly taken back by the Jews (The Maccabee army) and that’s what Hanuka is all about. But the return to power didn’t last for long, and in 63 BCE, the majority of the Jewish population was exiled by the Romans. They burned the Jewish Holy Temple, murdered thousands, and even renamed the land from Israel to “Palestina”. Fast forward to 1948, the diaspora of the Jewish people was finally about to be over. After being spread across the world suffering horrific violence against them through the years, the Jewish people were finally able to return to their homeland. At this point, Palestina belonged to the British crown after it was conquered from the Ottoman Empire (in 1917) and the population was a mix of Brits (m