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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AJ²06" data-source="post: 1946395" data-attributes="member: 569001">After reading the latest Israel vs. Arabs thread I was shocked by the ignorance of many of the readers here about the history of the conflict in the Middle-East, so I decided to help and clear it up:2035 B.C. - Abraham born.1960 B.C. - Abraham leaves Haran for Canaan.1935 B.C. - Isaac born.1875 B.C. - Jacob born.1767 B.C. - Joseph sold to Egyptians.1745 B.C. - Jacob and family move to Egypt.Egyptian bondage and the Exodus under Moses:1610 B.C. - Moses born.1530 B.C. - The Exodus from Egypt. Israel crosses the Red Sea.- The Law is given to Moses on Mount Sinai.Israel given The Promised Land:1490 B.C. - The Hebrews enter Canaan.980 B.C. - David becomes King of Israel.930 B.C. - The first Temple completed in Jerusalem.900 B.C. - The nation is divided into the Kingdoms of Israel and Judah.Assyrian &amp; Babylonian captivities and the Return:722 B.C. - Israel (Northern Kingdom) conquered by Assyria.586 B.C. - Judah (Southern Kingdom) conquered by Babylon. Jerusalem destroyed, including the first Temple, and the Jews exiled to Babylon.538 B.C. - The exiles return to Jerusalem from Babylon.516 B.C. - The second Temple dedicated.444 B.C. - The walls of Jerusalem completed.350 B.C. - Persians capture Jerusalem.332 B.C. - Jerusalem conquered by Alexander the Great.170 B.C. - The King of Syria, Antiochus Epiphanes, plunders Jerusalem.168 B.C. - The Maccabean revolt.165 B.C. - Hasmonean Jews, led by the Maccabees, recapture Jerusalem and rededicate the Temple, now celebrated annually at Hanukah.80 B.C. - The Maccabees defeated by the Romans.63 B.C. - Jerusalem conquered by Pompey, who makes Jerusalem a Roman province.37 B.C. - Herod appointed King in Jerusalem by Rome.20 B.C. - Herod begins restoration of the 2nd Temple.4 B.C. - The birth of Jesus.30 A.D. Jesus crucified.66-73 - The Jewish revolt against the Romans.66 - Jewish Zealots capture Masada from the Romans.Worldwide Dispersion/Diaspora:70 - Jerusalem and the Temple destroyed by the Romans who begin expelling the Jews from The Land.73 - Masada, the last stronghold of the Jewish rebellion, falls to the Romans.135 - The Bar Kokhba revolt is defeated by the Romans, who kill over 580,000 Jews.- Jerusalem is rebuilt and renamed Aelia Capitolina, from which all Jews are banned.- Judea is renamed Syria Palestina (Palestine), from which all Jews are banned.306 - The Spanish Synod of Elvira forbids Christians to eat with Jews or to intermarry with them.324 - Jerusalem under Byzantine rule.326 - Queen Helena, the mother of Byzantine Emperor Constantine, visits Jerusalem and starts building churches, including The Church of The Holy Sepulchre.362 - Julian the Apostate allows Jews to return to Jerusalem.395 - The Roman Empire is partitioned into Eastern and Western divisions. Palestine comes under the Eastern division.570 - Birth of Mohammed.614 - Jerusalem conquered by Persians.624 - Mohammed executes all Jewish males in Medina, levies a tax on all Jews in Khybar, and changes the prayer direction of his followers from Jerusalem to Mecca.627 - Mohammed executes all Jewish men in Qurayzah and sells their women and children as slaves.629 - Jerusalem is retaken by the Byzantines. Jews are banned from Jerusalem by Bishop Modestos, the Christian Patriarch of Jerusalem.632 - Death of Mohammed.633 - Jews are banned from Jerusalem by Bishop Sophronius, the Christian Patriarch of Jerusalem.637 - Muslim conquest of Jerusalem.638 - Muslim conquest of Palestine.650 - The compilation of Mohammed's Koran is completed.691 - The Dome of the Rock is completed on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.701 - The Al Aqsa Mosque is completed on the Temple Mount.747 - An earthquake hits Jerusalem, collapsing part of the Dome of the Rock.771 - Another earthquake hits Jerusalem and the Temple Mount.813 - Another earthquake hits Jerusalem.969 - Egyptian Fatimids take control of Jerusalem.1012 - The Jews are expelled from part of the Rhineland.1033 - Another earthquake hits Jerusalem.1066 - Jews enter Britain for the first time.1077 - Jerusalem captured by the Turks.1096 - The Crusaders massacre Jews in the Rhineland.1099 - The First Crusade captures Jerusalem. The Jews fight alongside the Arabs, defending Jerusalem from the Crusaders.1144 - Anti-Jewish riots in England.1146 - Christians volunteering to fight in the Second Crusade were decreed to be released from all debts owed to Jews.1168 - A Jewish massacre in England.1170 - The Third Crusade. Jews were accused of the infamous "Blood Libel" and massacred.1181 - Another Jewish massacre in England.1182 - King Phillip of France expelled Jews, confiscated their property, turned synagogues into churches, and forced Jews to wear identification badges.1187 - The Muslim, Saladin, takes Jerusalem from the Crusaders.1189 - Jewish massacres throughout England at the coronation of Richard the Lionhearted.1190 - Another Jewish massacre in England.1192 - Richard the Lionheart fails to re-conquer Jerusalem.1212 - 300 English and French Rabbis settle in Jerusalem.1215 - The Fourth Lateran Council requires Jews to wear distinctive clothing for easy identification, and bars them from holding civil office.1222 - The Synod of Oxford, England requires Jews to wear an identifying patch.1229 - Crusaders conquer Jerusalem.1239 - Muslims re-conquer Jerusalem.1240 - The Paris Disputation.1242 - The burning of the Talmud in Paris.1243 - Crusaders re-conquer Jerusalem.1244 - Jerusalem sacked by Tartars.1247 - Jerusalem conquered by Egyptian Mamelukes.1255 - A Massacre of Jews in England.1259 - Jerusalem sacked by the Mongols.1264 - Jewish persecution sweeps England.1276 - The Jews expelled from upper Bavaria.1278 - Jews arrested throughout England and their property confiscated, 300 hanged.1288 - Massacre of local Jews in Troyes, France.1290 - The Jews expelled from England by Edward I. 16,000 left, beginning 350 years of Jewish exile from England.1306 - Phillip the Tall expelled 100,000 Jews from France and confiscated their property.1322 - The Spanish Synod of Valladolid demands intolerance toward the Jews.1329 - The Spanish Synod of Tarragona demands intolerance toward the Jews.1335 - The Synod of Salamanca forbids employment of Jewish doctors.1347 - Jerusalem conquered by the Mamelukes again.1348-49 - Anti-Jewish riots in Poland.1351-1353 - The bubonic plague hits Jerusalem.1391 - Anti-Jewish riots and massacres in Spain, 50,000 Jews murdered in Castile. The Jews required to wear distinctive clothing for identification.1394 - The Jews again expelled from France.1407 - Anti-Jewish riots in Poland.1421 - The Jews in Vienna had their possessions confiscated, their children forcibly converted. 270 Jews were burned at the stake.1424 - The Jews expelled from Cologne.1432 - The Jews expelled from Saxony.1435 - The Jews expelled from Spires and Zurich.1438 - The Jews expelled from Mainz.1439 - The Jews expelled from Augsburg.1442 - The Jews expelled from Bavaria.1454 - The Jews expelled from the crown cities of Moravia.1478 - The Inquisition established to exterminate heretics, including Jews.1485 - The Jews expelled from Perugia, Italy.1486 - The Jews expelled from Vicenza, Italy.1489 - The Jews expelled from Milan and Lucca, Italy.1490 - The Jews expelled from Geneva, Switzerland. Hebrew Bibles burned by the Inquisition in Spain.1492 - 300,000 Jews expelled from Spain. Christopher Columbus watched them leaving in ships as he was leaving to discover the New World.1494 - The Jews expelled from Florence and all Tuscany. Anti-Jewish riots in Poland.1495 - The Jews expelled from Cracow and Lithuania.1497 - The Jews expelled from Portugal, Sicily, and Sardinia.1502 - The Jews expelled from Rhodes1506 - The Jews again expelled from Portugal.1516 - The first Jewish ghetto in Venice. Jerusalem surrenders to Ottoman Sultan Selim, the beginning of 400 years of Ottoman rule.1541 - The Jews expelled from Naples. Suleiman the Magnificent completes the walls around Jerusalem.- Jerusalem's Golden Gate is sealed to prevent The Messiah's entrance.1543 - Martin Luther writes his 200-page pamphlet, "Against the Jews and Their Lies".1555 - In Spain, all copies of the Jewish Scriptures in Spanish are seized and burned.- All Jews in Rome are forced onto the left bank of the Tiber River and surrounded by a wall.1556 - Earthquake in Jerusalem.1593 - Pope Clement VIII banished Jews from the Vatican State.1648 - 100,000 Jews massacred in Poland and 700 Jewish communities destroyed in the Ukraine.1670 - The Jews expelled from France again after Blood Libel charges.1719 - Rhode Island excludes Jews from voting and from holding public office.1775 - Pope Pius VI issues edict to suppress the Jewish religion.1791 - Tsarist Russia confines the Jews to the "Pale of Settlement" between the Black Sea and the Baltic Sea.1798 - Napoleon Bonaparte visits the Holy Land.1799 - Napoleon Bonaparte encouraged the return of the Jews to their land in Palestine.1831 - Jerusalem conquered by Mohammed Ali of Egypt.1838 - British Consulate opened in Jerusalem.1840 - Jerusalem again under Turkish control.- In Damascus, anti-Jewish pogroms initiated by the Roman Catholic Franciscans.- British foreign secretary, Lord Palmerston, strongly recommended to the Ottoman government ruling Palestine that they should encourage the Jews of Europe to return to Palestine.</blockquote>

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