I attempted to give a broad overview of the history of Palestine & Israel, beginning with the Canaanites up until today. It is not perfect, this was more or less intended to be something for myself to learn about the occupation in depth, but then some people started showing interest in reading it as well. If there is anything included that is inaccurate PLEASE let me know and I will absolutely edit it. I probably spent 30-40 hours compiling this information and in most cases tried to double and triple check the context. I had a very basic understanding of the history of Palestine, and so it was an incredible learning experience for myself. I am by no means an expert on the situation but I feel much, much more confident in my knowledge now. Many sources are from Wikipedia (I know) but I did rack up like 50 sources so I hope that I was able to accurately record and double check information that appeared biased towards Israel. I started compiling information on the 9th or 10th of this month.
This history is geared towards people who may have little to no knowledge of the ongoing occupation of Palestine, or towards people with a broad understanding of it. It comes out to about 14 pages. I also include a document with my copy/pastes from different sources and a glossary for different terms that some people may not be familiar with.
If you read through it I’m very happy for any feedback you might have. It was hard to really keep it at 15 pages, there’s just so much history and so many fucked up things that the Palestinians have had to endure. And it doesn’t even touch on how the Settlers respond to Palestinians and what displacement looks like now. that could be a whole other paper
I know too little about the material itself to be able to criticise the content, what I did know and what I read where congruent though. I wish it was possible to click on the citations while reading them instead of going back and forth but other than that no notes. I like that it is a brief overview and is a good quick reference before diving into more detail.