The History of Palestine

ISBN-13: 9783565081141 / Angielski / Miękka / 212 str.

Auke de Haan

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Palestine's cradle rocked with Bronze Age brawls: Canaanites stacking mud-brick walls against Hittite raids, Philistines iron-forging in Gaza strips while Hebrew tribes trekked from Egypt's sands. Persian satraps taxed the trails, Alexander's phalanxes thundered through, and Roman eagles perched heavy-Herod's temple gleaming till Titus torched it in 70 AD, scattering diaspora seeds. Byzantines gilded churches, Arab caliphs raised domes over the Rock, crusaders splashed blood on Acre's shores, and Mamluks mopped up the mess, weaving a tapestry where faiths tangled like olive roots under contested dirt.Ottomans clamped down in the 1500s, their pashas parceling plots to fellahin who tilled terraces till the empire wheezed out in World War I smoke. Balfour's 1917 note dangled a homeland hook, Zionists sailing in while Arab sheikhs stirred revolts in Hebron's hills, the mandate's maps carving futures amid Peel partitions and Peel-back betrayals. The '48 war shattered the script-villages razed, refugees streaming to camps like bad debts, Jordan annexing the West Bank while Gaza simmered under Egyptian thumbs, till Nasser's rhetoric rattled the region.Six-Day thunder in '67 redrew lines, settlements sprouting on seized slopes as PLO fedayeen raided from Lebanese lairs, intifadas igniting in '87 with slingshots and strikes. Oslo's '93 handshake promised peace but delivered walls, Arafat's Ramallah bunker a symbol till Hamas rockets and blockades boxed Gaza in. Palestine's no straight chronicle-it's a checkpoint chat with ghosts of grand muftis and green-line gamblers, proving a small patch packs history's heaviest punch.

Palestine's cradle rocked with Bronze Age brawls: Canaanites stacking mud-brick walls against Hittite raids, Philistines iron-forging in Gaza strips while Hebrew tribes trekked from Egypt's sands.