http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/ancient/asbook06.html

What do you think happens in a war?I hate war period but this whole thing is not new news.Its been going on for years and years.Personally I think we should stay out of the whole mess except as a mediator for peace.No win situation.Radicals on both sides keep it going.

I know!
Do you????

thread dead.

The Term Modern state of israel is the title of the thread. M-O-D-E-R-N. no thread killer from that site and thats a pretty lame argument in my book.

the title is "60 yrs ago Israel didn't exist".

That was 40 years before i was born...so really, Israel always existed in my life time =D

No I'm not a Vet.Should I leave the country or not express my opinion?

show me on a map please that it did exist

Mine too.Funny we are supposedly fighting a war on terrorism but when Israel does it ,they are wrong.

Do you have a map that old?

lol

http://www.science.co.il/israel-map.asp

http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Facts%20About%20Israel/Israel%20in%20Maps/Israel%20in%20Maps

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Maps_of_ancient_Israel

Palestine, considered a holy land by Jews, Muslims, and Christians, and homeland of the modern state of Israel, was known as Canaan to the ancient Hebrews. Palestine's name derives from the Philistines, a people who occupied the southern coastal part of the country in the 12th century B.C.

A Hebrew kingdom established in 1000 B.C. was later split into the kingdoms of Judah and Israel; they were subsequently invaded by Assyrians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Persians, Romans, and Alexander the Great of Macedonia. By A.D. 135, few Jews were left in Palestine; most lived in the scattered and tenacious communities of the Diaspora, communities formed outside Palestine after the Babylonian exile. Palestine became a center of Christian pilgrimage after the emperor Constantine converted to that faith. The Arabs took Palestine from the Byzantine empire in 634–640. Interrupted only by Christian Crusaders, Muslims ruled Palestine until the 20th century. During World War I, British forces defeated the Turks in Palestine and governed the area under a League of Nations mandate from 1923.

As part of the 19th-century Zionist movement, Jews had begun settling in Palestine as early as 1820. This effort to establish a Jewish homeland received British approval in the Balfour Declaration of 1917. During the 1930s, Jews persecuted by the Hitler regime poured into Palestine. The postwar acknowledgment of the Holocaust—Hitler's genocide of 6 million Jews—increased international interest in and sympathy for the cause of Zionism. However, Arabs in Palestine and surrounding countries bitterly opposed prewar and postwar proposals to partition Palestine into Arab and Jewish sectors. The British mandate to govern Palestine ended after the war, and, in 1947, the UN voted to partition Palestine. When the British officially withdrew on May 14, 1948, the Jewish National Council proclaimed the State of Israel.

Good Night!

http://rbedrosian.com/Maps/sh26_6_7.htm

night.hope college is going well.

Good Night, Fanta

umm who drew this map?

was the source derived from a bible or tora or an actual historical document? It ismy understanding they were wandering tribes but then again Jewish history isnt my strong point... Its Fantas.........hey Fanta......check this out.