Israel and the Palestinians are engaged in an ongoing military and political conflict about land and self-determination within the former territory of Mandatory Palestine. Key aspects of the conflict
The 1917 Balfour Declaration from UK Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Walter Rothschild expressing the support of the British government for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people."
British colonial Palestine Police Force dispersing a crowd in the Jaffa riots, seen as the start of the Arab revolt (1936–1939) in Palestine against British rule and the mass Jewish immigration and rapid expansion of Jewish settlements it allowed.
Haganah ship Jewish State carrying illegal Jewish immigrants from Europe at the Haifa Port, Mandatory Palestine, 1947
Distribution of Palestine land ownership in 1945
Israel, officially the State of Israel, is a country in the Southern Levant region of West Asia. It is bordered by Lebanon to the north, Syria to the northeast, Jordan to the east, and Egypt to the so
Israeli–Palestinian conflict
…Israel and the Palestinians are engaged in an ongoing military and political conflict about land and self-determination within the former territory of Mandatory…
Tel Megiddo, the ruins of a Canaanite and later Israelite city
The Yavne-Yam ostracon, a Paleo-Hebrew inscription documenting administration in Judah
Hasmonean coin of Antigonus II Mattathias, depicting the Temple menorah
View of the Masada fortress overlooking the Dead Sea, which is the location of a 1st-century Roman siege