День независимости Израиля каждый год отмечается разного числа; в 2020 году это сегодня, в связи с чем для наших слушателей передаем
песню.
Если вы читаете по-английски, то вот либретто:
Stone Age:
- The Mesolithic Natufian Culture emerges and settles down, this land is theirs.
- The land changes hands between various tribes during the Neolithic period.
Bronze Age:
- Egypt Conquers the Land.
- Egypt loses control of the land, which becomes known as Canaan. It becomes a converging point between various bronze age civilizations.
- The Tribes of Israel conquer Canaan after the Bronze Age Collapse. This is the original Israel.
- Assyria / Babylonia / Persia takes the land. And keeps it for the longest time, until Alexander shows up.
The Iron Age:
The Greek Macedonian Empire under Alexander the Great takes the land. But Alexander dies and his empire splinters into various successor states.
- Greek successor state of Ptolemy, in Egypt, claims the land after Alexander dies and the Macedonian Empire splinters.
- Greek successor state of Seleucid, in Persia, takes the land from Ptolemy.
- Ptolemy takes it back again, dressed in the regalia of a Pharaoh, because that was their jam.
- Seleucid takes it back again, establishing a semi-autonomous Greek state called the Hasmonean Kingdom. Which is the purple guy dressed like a Greek King.
- The Roman-sponsored Jewish Herodian Dynasty replaces the Greek Hasmonean Dynasty. With the Greeks gone, they effectively create the second Israel.
- Rome Incorporates the land into their Empire, where it officially becomes the province of Judea.
- Sassanian Persia, after kicking the Greeks out as well, has some wars with the Romans. But despite occasional victories they never actually lay claims over Judea.
Medieval Age:
- The Islamic Caliphate overruns the Middle-East, taking a large amount of Christian Roman land, and practically destroying the Sassanian Empire.
- Catholic European Crusaders retaliate against the Caliphate in the First Crusade, they conquer Judea and name it the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
- Saladin, the Arab-Islamic Sultan of Egypt, takes back the land.
- The Mameluke warrior caste replaces the Sultanate.
- The Turks of the Ottoman Empire invade and take the land, and unite the Arab World.
Modern Age:
- After the First World War, Britain takes the land from the Turks and gives it to the Jews, the third Israel is born.
- We then cut to a series of engagement between the Israeli, Hezbollah and Hamas. With death and nukes at the end.
Final thoughts: Israel says its theirs because they conquered Canaan. The Palestine say its theirs because they descend from Canaan. Both of which are somewhat rubbish claims given all the other actors listed above.
