So instead, we are supposed to set the clock back 100 years? Is that correct? Do you expect whoever is currently living somewhere to get up and leave if they didn't live there X years ago? What is the magic number X?
The Zionist project started out with Jews simply moving to their homeland. They did not belong anywhere else, and that is where they had come from many generations ago.
Palestinian Prehistory
1 Lower Palaeolithic Period (ca. 1.4 million years-250,000)
- Acheulian culture - first signs of controlled usage of fire
2 Middle Palaeolithic Period (ca. 250,000–48,000)
- Mousterian culture - human remains of both Neanderthals and Homo Sapiens
3 Upper Palaeolithic Period (ca. 48,000–20,000)
4 Epi-Palaeolithic Period (ca. 20,000–9,500 cal. BCE)
- Kebaran culture (18,000 BCE to 12,500 BCE) - appearance of the bow and arrow
- affinities with the earlier Helwan phase in the Egyptian Fayyum, and cultures spread as far as Southern Turkey.
Natufian Culture (ca. 12,500–9,500 BCE)
- hunter-gatherers
- large community sizes and sedentary lifestyles
- setting the foundations for the Neolithic Revolution
5 Neolithic Period (9,500-4,500 BCE)
- time of the agricultural transition and development of farming economies in the Near East, and the region's first known megaliths (Gobekli Tepe)
- Ghassulian Period - created the basis of the Mediterranean economy which has characterised the area ever since
- economy was a mixed agricultural system consisting of extensive cultivation of grains (wheat and barley), intensive horticulture of vegetable crops, commercial production of vines and olives, and a combination of transhumance and nomadic pastoralism
6 Chalcolithic (Copper) Period (4,500-3,500 BCE)
- involved in large scale, far reaching trade.
- Palestine became the center of three trade routes linking three continents majing it the meeting place for religious and cultural influences from Egypt, Syria, Mesopotamia, and Asia Minor
- increased prosperity leads to a revival of inter-regional and eventually international trade and the growth of villages rapidly proceeds to increased prosperity of market towns and city states, which attract the attention of neighboring powers, who may invade to capture control of regional trade networks and possibilities for tribute and taxation
7. Early Bronze Age (3,500- 2,000 BCE)
- urban development of Canaan lagged considerably behind that of Egypt and Mesopotamia and even that of Syria, where from 3,500 BCE a sizable city developed at Hamoukar
- development of sites like Ebla, which by 2,300 BCE was incorporated once again into an Empire of Sargon, and then Naram-Sin of Akkad (Biblical Accad)
- archives show references to a number of Biblical sites, including Hazor, Jerusalem, and possibly Sodom and Gomorrah
- collapse of the Akkadian Empire, saw the arrival of peoples from the Zagros Mountains, east of the Tigris
- suspected by some arrival in Syria and Palestine of the Hurrians, people later known in the Biblical tradition possibly as Horites.
8 Middle Bronze Age Period (2,000-1750 BCE)
- arrival of "Amorites" from Syria in Southern Iraq, associated with the arrival of Abraham's family from Ur
- the pinnacle of urban development in the area of Syria and Palestine
- the chief state at this time was the city of Hazor, which may have later been the first capital of Israel
- period in which Semites began to appear in larger numbers in the Nile delta region of Egypt
Palestinian History
1 Ancient period
1.1 Proto-Canaanite period
1.2 New Kingdom Egyptian period
1.3 Independent Canaanite, Israelite and Philistine period
1.4 Neo-Assyrian and Neo-Babylonian Empire period
1.5 Achaemenid Empire period
2 Classical antiquity
2.1 Hellenic period
2.2 Restoration of regional self-governance
2.3 Roman Period
2.3.1 Roman Judea
2.3.2 Syria Palaestina
2.4 Byzantine period
3 Middle Ages
3.1 Rashidun, Umayyad and Abbasid Caliphates period
3.2 Fatimid Caliphate period
3.3 Kingdom of Jerusalem (Crusaders) period
3.4 Ayyubid, Mamluk, Bahri and Mamluk Burji period
4 Ottoman era
4.1 Early Ottoman rule
4.2 Decentralization process
4.2.1 Ridwan-Farrukh-Turabay period
4.2.2 Imperial attempts at centralization
4.3 Rule of Acre and autonomy of Nablus
4.3.1 Zaydani period
4.3.2 Jazzari period
4.4 Centralization
4.4.1 Egyptian period
4.4.2 Restoration of Ottoman control
5 Modern era
5.1 British Mandate period
5.1.1 Infrastructure and development
5.1.2 1936–1939 Arab revolt in Palestine
5.1.3 World War II and Palestine
5.1.4 End of the British Mandate 1945–1948
5.1.5 UN partition and the 1948 Palestine War
5.2 Partition of former Mandatory territory
5.2.1 Palestinian governorship in Egyptian-controlled Gaza
Abraham didn't stumble upon an unoccupied land when he arrived in Palestine during the Middle Bronze Age - approximately 1,900 BCE
There are a long line of cultural groups that had preceding his arrival all claiming Palestine as their homeland, many of which have resided there for far longer than the Jews
Jericho, alone, can trace its origins back to 10,000 BCE and its name comes from the Hebrew "Yeriẖo," derived from either the Canaanite word Reaẖ ("fragrant") or another Canaanite word "Yareaẖ" meaning "moon" or the lunar deity "Yarikh" all of which predates Hebrew settlement
For most of Israel's history, the Jews did not even have exclusive control over Palestine, but were forced to share it with other groups (Canaanites, Philistines, Sumarians)
Modern Palestinians are probably an amalgamation of many of these earlier groups and have a legitimate claim to Palestine as their homeland.
