Talk:Timeline of Israeli history

Modern History of Israel - doesn't this start in 1798/99 when Napoleon occupied the area of modern day Israel?
Given Napoleon is reputed to have said a Jewish homeland must be established in the Middle East (Even if he didn't - it was reported widely at the time that he did) - that Napoleon in fact played a pivotal role in the events that led to the Establishment of Israel approximately a sesquicentenary later? (1798-1948)?

I feel Napoleon's role in 'planting the seed' for the establishment of Israel in the minds of European Jews is underplayed here.

In terms of Modern Israel - Napoleon played an integral role. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2405:6E00:22EE:895B:D44F:C87C:18B9:424E (talk) 13:56, 23 December 2023 (UTC)


 * Here is a potted history - yes, it is from Al Jazeera - but worth a look to gain a certain perspective on the history from the late 18th century until the early 20th century.
 * Our story starts here in 1799, outside the walls of Acre in Ottoman-controlled Palestine.
 * An army under Napoleon Bonaparte besieged the city, all part of a campaign to defeat the Ottomans and establish a French presence in the region. In search of allies, Napoleon issued a letter, offering Palestine as a homeland to the Jews, under French protection. He called on the Jews to 'rise up' against what he called their oppressors.
 * [Paris ] [1799] Napoleon's appeal was widely publicised. But he was ultimately defeated.
 * In Acre today, the only memory of him is a statue atop a hill overlooking the city.
 * Yet Napoleon's project for a Jewish homeland in the region under a colonial protectorate did not die.
 * Forty years later, the plan was revived by the British, this time, as a means of thwarting the rising power of Egyptian governor Mohammad Ali. [1840] In 1840 British Foreign Secretary Lord Palmerston wrote to his ambassador in Constantinople urging him to convince the Sultan and his entourage to open Palestine for the immigration of Jews.
 * At that time, there were estimated to be no more than 3,000 Jews in Ottoman controlled Palestine.
 * Over the years Jewish immigration to Palestine increased, helped on by wealthy benefactors.
 * One of these was the French aristocrat Baron Edmond de Rothschild.
 * He began visiting Palestine in the 1880's and became one of the Jewish community's leading sponsors.
 * He spent over 14 million French Francs to establish 30 Jewish settlements.
 * [1885] The most important was Rishon Le Zion, founded in 1882.
 * Today the remains of Baron Rothschild lie in a mausoleum in northern Israel. It's a popular site for Israeli schoolchildren, learning about the wealthy patron who bankrolled Jewish-settlement-building in Palestine over 100 years ago.
 * [1885] In 1885 the term "Zionism" was first coined by Austrian writer Nathan Birnbaum.
 * It is derived from the word Zion, one of the biblical names for Jerusalem.
 * Zionism came to mean the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine but not all Jews supported this.
 * DR HILLEL COHEN ISRAELI HISTORIAN. Of course there were Jews in the country under Ottoman rule. But they weren't Zionists, they were locals. The Jews who came from Europe especially Eastern Europe in the late 19th century wanted to assert a new Jew.
 * [1896] In 1896, Theodor Herzl, an Austro-Hungarian journalist wrote a book called "The Jewish State". It is considered one of the most important texts of early Zionism.
 * Herzl envisioned the founding of a future independent Jewish state during the 20th century.
 * His colleague, Max Nordau, sent two rabbis to Palestine to investigate the prospects for a Jewish state there.
 * Their report concluded: "The bride is beautiful but she is married to another man."
 * The rabbis understood that Palestine's spouse was the Palestinian society rooted in its soil.
 * [1897] In 1897, Herzl with Birnbaum and Nordau convened the First Zionist Congress in the Swiss city of Basel.
 * The Congress adopted a program for the establishment of a homeland for the Jewish people in Palestine.
 * DR ANIS SAYEGH (1931-2009) PALESTINIAN ENCYCLOPEDIA EDITOR.
 * Herzl openly lobbied for this. He contacted the major European powers to persuade them to protect such an entity. Herzl was the father of the Zionist state but he didn't create the Zionist ideology.
 * [Dr Anis Sayegh] Herzl didn't hold a conference to bring these countries together. He exploited the competition between them. He told each one he'd secure their interests if they supported the establishment of a Jewish state at the expense of the others.
 * [1907] In 1907 the British government set up a committee to devise a strategy toward the Muslim-Arab population of the Ottoman empire.
 * The committee's report submitted to British Prime Minister Henry Campbell-Bannerman in 1907, recommended establishing a so-called 'buffer state' in Palestine.
 * The report proposed this state be hostile to its neighbours and friendly to Europe. The aim was to divide the region - and so assure Britain's continued imperial dominance.
 * DR MOHSEN SALEH AL-ZAYTOUNA RESEARCH CENTRE.
 * Such a foreign body would be dependent on European colonialism. Its survival would be guaranteed in return for keeping surrounding states weak.
 * [Dr Hillel Cohen] The Europeans also believed the Jews to be closer to them than the Arabs. A Jewish state here would be better for them.
 * [1907] In 1907, Chaim Weizmann, a chemist who had emerged as a leader among British Zionists, visited Palestine for the first time. He set out to establish a company in Jaffa to develop the land of Palestine, a practical means to pursue the Zionist dream of building a Jewish state. His venture was supported by Baron de Rothschild.
 * [Marj Bin Amer] Within three years a major deal was struck. The Jewish National Fund, set up to buy land in Palestine purchased some 10,000 dunums in the Marj Bin Amer region of northern Palestine. The sale to the Jewish National Fund had dire consequences for the thousands of Palestinian farmers living on the land.
 * WAKEEM WAKEEM PALESTINIAN NGO. Over 60,000 Palestinians in the Marj Ibn Amer area were forced to leave. If the 'Nakba' signifies the expulsion of the Palestinian citizen from his land and the seizure of his land then the Nakba began decades before 1948.
 * https://remix.aljazeera.com/aje/PalestineRemix/search.html?search=1799#!/17/ 2405:6E00:22EE:895B:D44F:C87C:18B9:424E (talk) 14:26, 23 December 2023 (UTC)
 * https://remix.aljazeera.com/aje/PalestineRemix/search.html?search=1799#!/17/ 2405:6E00:22EE:895B:D44F:C87C:18B9:424E (talk) 14:26, 23 December 2023 (UTC)

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