• complacent_jerboa@lemmy.world
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    it’s not thousands of years of context. All this stuff dates back to, like, roughly the 1900s. Basically the British Mandatory period.

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      It actually started around 11 century BC, when Samson slaughtered more than 1000 Philistines (ancient Palestinians).

      • modeler@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        A bit earlier still

        The Egyptians defeated the Sea Peoples and forced a subgroup, the Peleset, to southern Canaan to act as a buffer state to the Hittites to the north. This displaced the locals who would go on to become the Israelites.

        The Peleset became the biblical Philistines.

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          What I’m hearing is it would be more efficient to go back and time and prevent this than to go back in time and kill Hitler.

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        The Romans. Trajan sacked Jerusalem after a 5 month of siege to put out the Great Jewish Revolt (70CE). That’s when the Second Temple was destroyed. Trajan’s column shows Roman soldiers carting off a giant menorah in commemoration.

        Palestine is from the Latin for Philistia, the lands of another ancient Canaanite tribe.

        Shit’s old all around.