Palestineball/History

==Palestine before the British mandate (to 1917)==
The countryball now known as Palestineball was initially populated by Semitic tribes that migrated around the Middle Eastern region, establishing the ancient nations of Canaanball. They are the oldest ancestors of Palestineball.
 Ancient Egyptball exerted a significant amount of influence over Canaanball. Hyksosball, a people believed to have come from Canaanball, ruled Ancient Egyptball for an extended period until their expulsion. The dominance of Ancient Egyptball over Canaanball began to decline when Hittiteball started competing for influence in the region, combined with an attack by the Sea Peoples on Ancient Egyptball, in which Philistiarawr took part, subsequently settling in Canaanball after their defeat.
Around the 13th century BC, several countryballs were established in Canaanball, such as Edomball, Moabball, Ammonball, and others. Around 1000 BCE, Hebrewcube tribes arrived and settled in Canaanball. After living as scattered tribes without a unified state for a while, they established Kingdom of Israelcube, which lasted for 90 years before splitting into two separate states: Kingdom of Samariacube (still officially referred to as Kingdom of Israelcube) and Kingdom of Judahcube. These Israelite kingdomcubes generally had hostile relations with the other countryballs they shared the region with. Unlike Israelcube, which mainly claims descent from the Israelitecubes, Palestineball generally accepts all these ancient countryballs as part of its identity.
After 400 years, both Kingdom of Samariacube and Philistiarawr were taken by Assyriaball, while Kingdom of Judahcube continued to exist as a client state of Assyriaball. After Babylonball conquered Assyriaball, it chose to put an end to Kingdom of Judahcube, anschlussing it as Yehudcube. Afterwards, control over the region was passed to Achaemenidball, which defeated Babylonball and left a significant influence on the local population.
 Macedonball later claimed the region after anschlussing Achaemenidball, also leaving its influence among the locals by bringing Hellenic culture. Macedonball would be succeeded by its children, Seleucidball. In 140 BCE, after the Maccabeean Revolt against Seleucidball, Jewcubes gained autonomy and restored control over the region that was once Kingdom of Judahcube, known as Judea, founding Hasmoneancube.
Following the disintegration of Seleucidball, Hasmoneancube conquered other Palestinian territories. In 63 BCE, the forces of SPQRball would conquer Hasmoneancube and establish it as a client state called Herodiancube, which lasted until 37 BCE. At that point, it was annexed by SPQRball as the Province of Judeaball.
Due to wars and revolts against SPQRball, many Jewcubes chose to leave Palestineball for more peaceful regions, forming communities in what later became known as the Jewish diaspora around the world. Nevertheless, in Palestineball, the population remained predominantly Jewish for 300 years until Christianity (which was not yet fully separated from Judaism) began to gain strength, leading to many Palestinianballs adopting it. As Christianity became the official religion of SPQRball, Christianballs from other parts of the empire migrated to settle in Palestineball.
Around the fall of SPQRball from power, the region became part of its Eastern successor, Byzantineball. During Byzantineball times the region was known as Palestina Secundaball, and saw a rise of Arab influence. Arabballs were already present in Palestineball for a long time, mainly influencing Idumeaball through Nabateaball. Ghassanidsball, an Arab Christian kingdom vassal to Byzantineball, helped in the suppression of revolts of Jewcubes and Samaritancubes during this period, as well as fighting against Sassanianball, that briefly occupied Palestineball. Christian Arabballs however also fought against Byzantineball depending on their sect.
With the rise of Islam in the Arabian Peninsula, Rashidunball, the first Caliphateball, defeated Byzantineball and conquered all of the Levant. Palestineball was of Christian-majority at the time, but would through the centuries become Muslim-majority and further Arabize itself, especially during Rashidunball successor Umayyadball. Jewcubes were still present in Palestineball, albeit as a minority together with Samaritancubes. Under Caliphateballs, Palestineball was divided in two provinces: Jund Filastinball and Jund al-Urdunnball.
After Umayyadball, Jund Filastinball and Jund al-Urdunnball became a part of Abbasidball and Fatimidball, with the last being the one ruling it during the beginning of The Crusades. Crusader forces defeated Fatimidball and founded Kingdom of Jerusalemball in Palestineball, massacring many Muslimballs, Jewcubes and even local Christianballs. However, Ayyubidball would go on to defeat Crusaders and conquer part of Palestineball under Kingdom of Jerusalemball control. Palestineball then stayed split between Ayyubidball and Kingdom of Jerusalemball for nearly a century until Mamlukball succeeded Ayyubidball and killed Kingdom of Jerusalemball in 1291.
 Mamlukball ruled Palestineball until the 15th century AD, when it was defeated by Ottomanball. Palestineball would spend centuries under Ottomanball, being a Muslim majority region with a considerable Christian population and Jewish, Samaritan and Druze minorities. While in Palestineball Jewcubes lived relatively fine, Jewcubes in the diaspora couldn't say the same, especially in Europe, where they faced social discrimination and religious persecution.
This persecution in Europe led to the creation of a Zionist movement for the first time in 1897 for a Jewish nation state. At the time, German Empireball's Kulturkampf was busy eradicating Jewish culture in its Reich, and Franceball exhibited anti-Semitism in the 1895 Dreyfuss affair. Zionism did not originally support the existence of a Jewcube state in Palestineball, and sought out a homeland in other places, like British East Africaball (which would later be Ugandaball and Kenyaball), or South Africaball.
In 1897, the First Zionist Congress that took place in Baselball, Switzerlandball, stated that they would aim for a establishment of a future Jewcube state in Palestineball with Jerusalemcube as its possible capital. This led to a series of Zionist enterprises by Ashkenazi Jewcubes from Europe in Ottomanball-held Palestineball, which became known as the New Yishuv. At the same time, Palestineball was facing along with the rest of the Levant a growing Arab nationalism, where intellectuals theorized about a modern Arab national state independent of Ottomanball.
==British Palestine (1917/20-1948)==
 UKball defeated  Ottomanball in World War I and the Treaty of Sevres after the 1920 war created the Mandate of Palestinecube. The war saw British promises to the Arabballs who had risen up against Ottomanball in the Arab Revolt of 1916-18, revoked as UKball and Franceball divided up the Middle East in the Sykes-Picot agreement in 1917. The Balfour Declaration of 1917 was also ignored by UKball after the war at the Paris Peace Conference in 1919. The Mandate status of Palestinecube was, according to the League of Nationsball; '(of territory) be assigned to (another power) until self-governance is possible'.
In this context, it didn't take long for the Arab nationalists and Zionists to clash with each other. Arab Palestinianballs (both Muslim and Christian) saw the Zionist enterprises in Palestineball as a threat, especially because they were armed, examples of Zionist paramilitary organizations such as Bar-Giora, then Hashomer and later Haganah, Irgun and Lehi.
By the 1920s, the Balfour Declaration had encouraged Zionists to actively try to achieve the creation of a Jewish state in Palestineball. Jewcubes began to increase migration to Mandate of Palestineball's clay in large numbers during the 1930s, especially as Nazism and Fascism rose in Europe.
This sparked the Arab Revolt of 1936-39 against UKball's rule in Palestineball, seen as what allowed this mass immigration. The goals of the Revolt included the establishment of an independent Arab Palestineball and the end of immigration of Jewcubes as well as their Zionist enterprises. The Revolt concluded in 1939 before the outbreak of WWII in Europe, with UKball restricting immigration.
Meanwhile in Axis-occupied Europe, the rise of  Nazi Germanyball in Europe saw many Jewcubes rounded up and put in ghettos and concentration/work camps. An initial plan was to send them to Madagascarball's future clay (then Vichy Franceball's colony), but after 1941, as large amounts of Jewcubes still living in Eastern Europe were flooding the camps, the Final Solution to exterminate the Jewcubes in Europe began in Naziball's occupied territories.
As the war turned against the Axis, Jewcubes suffered the Holocaust in Europe until concentration camps were liberated by Sovietball and USAball towards the end of the war. The revelation of what Naziball had been doing, caused UKball to turn the issue of Palestineball's clay over to UNball to avoid international criticism over its mandate. UNball then split the land between a Jewish state and an Arab state.
When the Mandate was finished in 1948, Arabballs refused the partition of their homeland, seeing Israelcube had no legitimacy since most of its territory was of Arabball-majority areas. Palestinian Arabballs also feared they would be expelled from their lands by the Israeli settlers in order to build their Jewish state. This would be the beginning of the Arab-Israeli conflict, with the new state of Israelcube being attacked.
==Occupation and Conflict (1948 - present)==
The 1947 Partition was considered unfair in the eyes of most Arab Palestinianballs, so  Arab Leagueball refused it. A day later, Israelcube was attacked by Iraqball, Syriaball, Egyptball and Jordanball with the support of Arab Leagueball. Israelcube however won and occupied most of Palestine, with exception of Gazaball, which was under the control of  Egyptball and  West Bankball, which was under Jordanball's control. In Israeli-occupied territories, most Arab Palestinianballs were expelled from their lands in an event known as the "Nakba" (Arabic for disaster), that represented the destruction of the Arab Palestinian society. This was the beginning of constant wars between Israelcube and the neighbouring countryballs.
In 1966,  Israelcube attacked a village in Jordanball-held West Bankball, provoking the Six-Day War one year later, in which  Iraqball,  Syriaball, Jordanball, Lebanonball and Egyptball try to defeat  Israelcube, but lose in six days due to lack of coordination and poor planning. Israelcube took then control of Golan Heights from Syriaball, West Bankball from Jordanball, and Gazaball and the Sinai Peninsula from  Egyptball.
In 1970, Palestinianballs rose up in  Jordanball (Black September in Jordan) to try to gain control of the country. Even though they had representation there since 1949, the revolt started because Jordanball government became aligned with USAball and others, soon Jordanball was no longer interested in fight Israelcube and began to negotiate further with the West. Palestineball then considered Jordanball an enemy of the Arab cause. However Jordanball defeated the Palestinianballs that fled to  Lebanonball (Palestinian insurgency in Southern Lebanonball, however they didn't have representation in Lebanonball and still don't have). But after that the Arabballs began taking Palestineball's calls for them to get back land lost in wars.
In 1973, after Israelcube rejected a series of peace overtures aimed at returning peacefully the territories it occupied in the Six-Days War from its neighbors, Egyptball and Syriaball attacked Israelcube-held Sinai Peninsula and Golan Heights, in what became known as Yom Kippur War. Israelcube suffered in the war and even considered the usage of nuclear weapons, but managed to resist the attacks. In the end, both USAball and Sovietball acted to deescalate the conflict under the threat of a nuclear Armageddon.
The Yom Kippur War showed that there was no guarantee that Israelcube would always dominate the Arabballs militarily, which paved the way for peace processes. Talks supervised by USAball were conducted in 1978 at Camp David, and peace was made with Egyptball in 1979 by Israelcube for the return of the Sinai Peninsula and a part of Egyptball's army detained by Israelcube there, in return Egyptball gave Israelcube the right to freely use the Suez Canal. In 1982 Lebanonball made a peace treaty with Israelcube that was not completed due to the complicated civil war in the country and Jordanball followed in 1994.
In 1993, Israelcube and PLOball signed a set of agreements, which include PLOball's recognition of Israelcube, and Israelcube's recognition of PLOball as the representative of the Palestinianballs, and the creation of a Palestinian Authority tasked with limited self-governance of parts of the  West Bankball and Gazaball. However the agreements were not completed since the Israeli prime minister who was negotiating the peace was killed by a radical Zionist who was against the treaties.
Today the conflict rages on, with Israelcube disengaged from Gazaball in 2005, the Palestinian organization Hamasball took control of it after a Palestinian internal conflict between Hamasball and Fatahball. Now, Hamasball continued with the armed struggle against Israelcube while other Palestinianballs decided to act in political areas. Hamasball and Israelcube occasionally start killing each other, with the first firing rockets at Israelcube and Israelcube doing heavily bombs against Gazaball.
On 7 October 2023, Hamasball attacked Israelcube's clay, sveral people were killed because of that, Hamasball was also able to take hundreds of Israelis as hostages. In response, Israelcube invaded Gazaball's clay. This war created a humanitarian disaster, and many people around the world have called for a ceasefire. As of March 2024, 30,000 Palestinians have been killed, about two-thirds of whom were women and children.
On 29 December 2023, South Africaball filed a genocide case against Israelcube due to their treatment of the Palestinians. UNball agreed and told Israelcube to stop, but as usual, Israelcube didn't bat an eye, proving that it's the most useless organization in the world.
On 25 February 2024, an American military officer—Aaron Bushnell—burned himself to death, saying that he did not want to be complicit in genocide, with his last words being "Free Palestine!". Hamas reacted positively to the event.
On 29 February 2024, in Gazaball's clay, 100 Palestinians were killed and over 750 were wounded by Israelcube as they were awaiting humanitarian aid.