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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.
Why is it called Palestine? What happened to the Second Temple?
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.
It actually started around 11 century BC, when Samson slaughtered more than 1000 Philistines (ancient Palestinians).
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.
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.
What about those crusade things I've heard so much about
The Mongols showed up and ruined everything.