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To: KLP who wrote (10820)	8/12/2006 2:23:31 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

How long is a long time? ....WHO ARE THE PALESTINIANS? WHAT & WHERE is PALESTINE? For over a thousand years........they were mostly sheepherders and ranchers although there were shop keepers in Haifa, Yafo[Jaffa] and Jerusalem. Here a time line: This first one is done by a Palestinian: palestinehistory.com This one by an Israeli: masada2000.org The last one is by an independent historian in Hungary: vlib.iue.it They all are pretty good although the Israeli and Palestian ones color their timelines to their benefit and leave out important events to make them look better. The important dates in Palestinian history to note: From roughly 1022 to 922 BC there was a Hebrew state but then it crumbled and by the sixth century BC, the Great Diaspora of Jews began......the vast majority were forced to exile Palestine; Then there were a series of invaders into Palestine: the Greeks, the Romans the Persians, the Muslims, the Christians, then the Muslims, then the Ottoman empire [Muslims] which lasted until WW I when the Brits. took over. The key was Jerusalem, a city holy to three religions and coveted by all three religions. During that 2600 year period, the Jews were scattered around the world. There were pockets of Jews in the cities but for the most part, they were pretty much absent until the 19th century when roughly 15K Zionists migrated to Palestine. Around WW I there may be were 36K Zionists while there were hundreds of thousands of Arabs. When the Brits took over, they started to screw with everyone.....promising the Zionists one thing; the Arabs something else, never intending to keep either promise. By the 1920s, there was open fighting between the Zionists and Arabs. Both had terrorists groups that they deployed against each other. Eventually things got out of control and by the end of WW II, the Brits turned Palestine over to the newly formed UN recommending that Israel not happen. However, Truman interceded, and over the strong objection of the Arab/rest of the world and his cabinet, he gave Israel its statehood. At the time, Jews made up only about 30% of the population. But when the war started with the Arabs after statehood, they forced most of the Israeli Arabs out of Israel and confiscated their property. Many Israeli Arabs left willingly expecting the Arabs to defeat the Zionists. That did not happen but instead these people ended up in the refugee camps that were established in the West Bank, Jordan and Lebanon. These same refugee camps exist today.......causing 60 years of war and hate.