EMNofS:
The Early Hebrews slaughtered Emonites, Moabites, Amalekites and many Canaanites and then married into and absorbed the surviving Canaanite population to make a kingdom(s) which lasted about 300 years before the Sargonid Neo-Assyrians and later the Noe-Babylonians conquered and dispersed the Israelites. Some later returned to their homeland but with a few brief exceptions were subjects of Persian, Greek, Seleucid, Parhian, Roman, Arab, Turkish and British Empires. Then European and some North African Jews joined about 33,000 indigenous Sephardic Jews and expanded their power by violence and terrorism. When the British Empire bugged out of the Mandate of Palestine, the Jewish militias, which were much better organised and armed than the Arab militias drove Arab Palestinians out of their villages expanding the Jewish footprint in Palestine in 1947. Then when Israel declared independence in May of 1948, five Arab states attacked the State of Israel and the Isaelis beat four of the five Arab armies handily, using the victory as a pretext to seize even more land from the Palestinians. Then Israel invaded Egypt (The UAR) in a surprise attack which they had arranged with the French Government and with tacit British approval in 1956. The Suez attack went well but the State of Israel was told to get out of Egypt/UAR by the USA. However before they left they set up the diplomatic pretext for the next war of aggression which they would wage in 1967. Then they launched that new war of aggression in June of 1967 and captured and held onto Gaza, East Jerusalem and the West Bank from Egypt and Jordan and the Golan Heights from Syria as well as a tiny piece of land from Lebanon.
That's how they got the land, a land which Hebrews/IsraelitesJews/Israelis have controlled for only about 500 out of the last 4000 years. At no time, to the best of my knowledge, did Augusto Pinochet play any significant role in these events so that might be a big bummer for some posters.
Cheers and be well.
Evilroddy.
