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Ramallah, November 2000 v Palestinians wrapped in flags clash with Israeli forces. Palestinian demonstrators storm Israeli positions using stones, Molotov cocktails and burning tires. Many of the clashes are organized by al-Fatah, a movement for the National Liberation of Palestine, but most of the people taking part in the clashes are civilians. TIM E LI N E .8 .c ~ Moses leads the JeWish people out GIl of persecution III Egypt and IIlto ...t Canaan (the biblical "Promised Land")-the area of present day Israel and the Occupied Territories and Jordan combined. 46 1 __ l _____________ ~ !~~r~ _________ ________ o now known as Palestine, 10 and rule it for about 150 o a people from Crete- invade the area, which is j The seafaring Philistines- g g capital, HIS son, Solomon, built a temple 8 8 (the First Temple) ' The Romans destroy the Second Temple and '0 Second Temple form C(l now what IS called the 2 Jews defeat the Philistilles and King DaVid establishes Jerusalem as hiS forced the Jews into exile. (Remnants of the ? _~~s~e~l~ ~~~~ ______ _ The Ottoman Empire rules much of the region. Modern Middle Eastern states do not yet exist except for Egypt and ] -1- ____ ~_ !~~~~t~o: ~h_a:~ ~~:e~~~r~~ :~d_ ~~S~I~ __ ____________ Muslim Arabs from Arabia ~ Persia. A number of influential European Jews found a 0 movement called Zionism whose goal is to re-create a ~ Jewish homeland In Palestine After 1.900, ZIOnists establish dozens of colonies III Palestine amidst a ?~?_? til capture Palestine. Muslims build g the Dome of the Rock, a shnne CD on the site of the JeWish Third Temple. Before the end of WWI, the Sykes- Picot Agreement secretly gives ~ Syna, which Includes Lebanon, to ~ France and places Palestine under Bntlsh control. Bntalll issues the Balfour Declaration endorsing the idea of a Jewish "homeland" (though not a "state") in Palestine.