Palestine and Israel: A Concealed HistoryRepublished in an English edition as the modern state of Israel prepares to celebrate its seventy-fifth anniversary in 2023, this book presents a history of Israel and Palestine up to the foundation of that modern state. Stretching from the thirteenth century BCE until the First World War, it is a concealed history of a mixed multitude of winners and losers living in the same land. It can be read as a regional history of the Southern Levant, written in light of modern historical and archaeological research. But it can also help shed light on the Israeli-Palestinian question. It contributes to a better understanding of why the Palestinians--regardless of where they live--have remained rooted in their patrimony, Palestine, and why they as a people, now as ever, are entitled to a land and state of their own. |
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Philistine City States and the Kingdoms | |
The Provinces of Canaan in the Babylonian | |
Canaan a Pawn between the Ptolemies | |
Palestine under Roman Rule and | |
From the Death of Jesus to the Destruction | |
In the Shadow of Byzantium until | |
Palestine under the Early Islamic | |
Palestine in the Early Ottoman | |
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