Maybe it's all God's fault...

Israel, and Particularly Jerusalem, is the Promised Land, Birth Place, and historical focal point for the 3 Most Powerful Religions on Earth. Jerusalem is The City of David, and it stands as the very core of Judaism. As a direct result of this fact, Jerusalem is also an important center for Christianity, with the birthplace of Christ just a few miles away. With the conquest of Jewish Palestine by invading Muslim Arabs, Jerusalem is also looked upon as an Islamic holy land, where the Holy Prophet once walked -- and died just five years before this invasion.

“Persia ruled in Palestine until the country was captured by Alexander the Great in 333BC. His successors -- the Egyptian Ptolemies and the Syrian Seleucids -- tried without success to force Greek culture and religion on the people.

“Eventually in the second century BC, the Jews revolted and established an independent state (141-63BC). This lasted until Pompey the Great conquered Palestine for Rome and made it a province of the Roman Empire ruled by Jewish kings.”

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“After Pompey the Great conquered Palestine and it fell under Roman rule, two additional Jewish revolts also occurred -- one from AD66 to 73 and the other from AD132 to 135.

“At the conclusion of the second revolt, many Jews were executed. A large number were sold into slavery and the remainder were forbidden to visit Jerusalem. This was the situation in Palestine until AD313 when the Emperor Constantine the Great legalized Christianity in the Roman Empire. His mother visited Jerusalem and Palestine subsequently became a focus of Christian pilgrimage.

“The people in Palestine became Hellenized (following essentially Greek customs and traditions) and Christianized and the Byzantines (the Eastern Roman Empire) ruled the area from Constantinople. This lasted, except for a brief Persian occupation from AD614-629, until Palestine was invaded by Muslim Arab armies which captured Jerusalem in AD638.”
A piece of Palestinian history.

Truth?

The Jews were ruling Israel centuries before the sailing of Columbus, and they are there today,
Dan