Palestine was Arab since it was settled by the Canaanites
It is not known with certainty what life was like in that region, which later became known as Palestine, but the oldest archaeological discoveries found in Mount Al-Qafra, south of Nazareth, and the sand hills near Tiberias, which date back to the period between 7500 and 3100 BC, confirm that this region witnessed... A kind of simple life. The most important event it witnessed was the founding of the city of Jericho, which historians consider the oldest town in history, and traces of it were found near the town of Ain al-Sultan.
In the late fourth millennium BC, the inhabitants of the region began to learn about copper and use it in some primitive industries, so historians called that period the Copper Stone Age.
Migration of the Canaanites
The first important human migrations to Palestine began at the beginning of the third millennium BC, which was the migration of the Canaanites, who were known by the name of the places where they settled. After a while, there became three languages: Canaanite, Aramaic - the language of Christ, peace be upon him - and Arabic, and Palestine remained called the land of Canaan until the year 1200. BC when it was invaded by Cretan tribes.
The migration of Abraham, peace be upon him
In the third millennium BC, Abraham, peace be upon him, migrated from the town of Ur in Iraq to Palestine, and there he gave birth to Isaac, the father of Jacob, who is also called Israel, and to whom the Israelites belong.
Egyptian Empire
During that period, Palestine was part of the Egyptian Empire, and trade exchange operations were active between them, as evidenced by the Amarna letters discovered in Upper Egypt.
The name of Palestine
Palestine witnessed a series of invasions carried out by the Cretan tribes that settled on the shores of Jaffa and Gaza, so that region was named Palestine after the name of the invading Cretan tribe that merged with the Canaanites, the original inhabitants of the country. The name Palestine was given to all coastal and inland lands that were inhabited by the Canaanites, and with time it prevailed. The Canaanite element, and the entire population of the country became Canaanite Arabs.
The Israelis
Because of the famine that swept Palestine, Jacob, peace be upon him, and his children migrated to Egypt, where his son, the Prophet Joseph, peace be upon him, was in charge of its treasures. This is a story detailed in the Holy Qurโan in Surat Yusuf. The Israelis settled in Egypt and their number increased, but they began to be subjected to persecution during the reign of Ramesses II, so Moses, peace be upon him, decided to take them out to the land of Canaan, and this story was mentioned in the Holy Qurโan in many places.
The Children of Israel stayed in the desert for forty years before they were able to enter Palestine after the death of Moses, peace be upon him, during the era of the Prophet Joshua. David, peace be upon him, was able to establish a kingdom for the Children of Israel in Jerusalem after the Israelis defeated Goliath.
David
David, peace be upon him, became king and succeeded in uniting the Israelis again and eliminated the differences and wars that existed between them. He was able to defeat the Jebusites, establish the Kingdom of Israel, and take Jerusalem as the capital (Jerusalem) of his kingdom.
After the death of Solomon, the son of David, peace be upon them, in 935 BC, the kingdom was divided among itself, so Judah rose in Jerusalem and the Kingdom of Israel in Samaria, and disputes and wars broke out between the two kingdoms, and each of them sought help from the kings of Egypt or Assyria against the other, which weakened them both and weakened their authority over the population, so it returned. Troubles again.
Demise of the kingdoms of Judah and Israel
Sheshenq, King of Egypt, attacked the Kingdom of Judah in 920 BC and occupied it, so that it became affiliated with the Egyptian state from then on. In 721 BC, the Assyrians attacked the kingdoms of Israel and Judah, occupied them, and imposed tribute on them. The Kingdom of Israel attempted to revolt, but the Assyrians violently suppressed its rebellion and took most of its inhabitants captive to Iraq.
Nebuchadnezzar
Nebuchadnezzar the Chaldean launched an attack on Palestine in 597 BC. He seized Jerusalem, the capital of Judah, took its king, his family, and most of its leaders captive to Iraq, and established a new king in Jerusalem. In 586 BC, the remnants of the Jews tried to rebel against the Sultan of Babylon in Palestine, so Nebuchadnezzar returned and invaded it again. This time, he destroyed Jerusalem, and Palestine was once again Canaanite Arab, belonging to Iraq, receiving Arab migrations from Syria and the Arabian Peninsula.
Because of the invasions of the Assyrians and Chaldeans, the Jewish state in Palestine disappeared after living for four centuries (1000 - 586 BC) that were full of disputes, wars, and unrest.
This period is considered one of the most important periods of Palestinian history, as the Jews rely on it in their claim of their right to return to Palestine, which they called the Promised Land.
Palestine under Persian occupation
The Persians invaded Palestine in 539 BC and occupied it after they occupied Babylon. Palestine remained affiliated with the Persian state for two centuries, and during their reign the remnants of the Judah tribe returned from the remnants of the Babylonians to Jerusalem.
Palestine under Greek occupation
Alexander the Great's victory over the Persians is considered one of the most important events of the fourth century BC, as he seized control of Syria, Gaza, and Jerusalem and annexed them to the Greek Empire in 332 BC. After his death, his empire was divided among his leaders, so Palestine was under the control of the leader Antichus, who was defeated by the Ptolemies in Gaza in 321 BC. AD, and from then on it became subject to the rule of Antiochus III in Syria in 198 BC.
Since that period, Palestine has been experiencing a state of war and unrest under many countries, such as the Maccabees and the Nabataean Arabs in 90 BC, and it remained under their capital, Petra, until the Romans occupied it.
Palestine under Roman occupation
The Romans occupied Palestine and made it a Roman state subordinate to Rome first, then Byzantium, until the middle of the seventh century AD, when the Arab Muslims conquered it and it became part of the Arab state. During the period of Roman rule, Palestine witnessed the birth of Jesus Christ, son of Mary, peace be upon them, but the Jews denounced him to the Roman governor in the year 37 AD and accused him of disbelief, and what followed was the story of the crucifixion, with its different details in the Islamic and Christian faiths.
Jewish rebellion
The Jews tried to exploit the religious freedom granted to them in Jerusalem since their return from Babylonian captivity in seeking to establish a state of their own, but the Roman ruler, with the help of the Arab population of the country, launched an attack on them in the year 71, occupied Jerusalem, and killed a large number of Jews before they fled to Syria, Egypt, and other Arab countries. .
Hadrian
The last attempt to establish a Jewish state in Palestine was in the year 135 AD, when a Jewish rabbi led a rebellion. The Roman ruler Hadrian attacked them, occupied the Jewish area in Jerusalem, destroyed it, and built a new city in that place, which Jews were forbidden from entering. After that incident, the Jews did not attempt to raise any unrest in Palestine until the advent of the twentieth century, the middle of which witnessed the establishment of the State of Israel, more than two thousand years after the collapse of their state in 586 BC at the hands of Nebuchadnezzar.