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Israel's roots dig into Bronze Age dust where Canaanite traders haggled over figs and frankincense, Hebrew shepherds like Abraham pitching tents under starry covenants that echoed through exile and return. Kingdoms rose under Saul's spears and Solomon's spires, the Temple's gold glinting till Nebuchadnezzar's siege hauled bones to Babylon's rivers. Roman eagles crushed the Maccabean spark in 70 AD, scattering diaspora seeds across seas while Masada's last stand whispered defiance from cliff graves. It was a hinge of faiths, where prophets penned laments and zealots lit fuses, forging a memory that outlasted the arches. Centuries of foreign boots followed: Byzantine crosses, Arab caliphs' crescents, Crusader swords, and Ottoman tax rolls squeezing villages dry till Balfour's 1917 pledge dangled a Jewish homeland hook amid mandate muddles. Zionist plows turned dunes to date palms, but Arab revolts scorched the fields, the Holocaust's shadow speeding the '47 UN carve-up that ignited '48's war-independence for one, catastrophe for the other, borders bleeding from Negev sands to Galilee groves. Fast to the fractures: '67's lightning grabs of Sinai and Golan, '73's Yom Kippur shock, Camp David handshakes crumbling into intifada stones and Oslo olive twigs that withered quick. Rabin's bullet silenced the handshake, settlements sprouted like thistles, while Gaza rockets and iron domes rattle the nights. Israel's no straight saga-it's a shekel's flip of survival and strife, proving a salt-stung shore can salt the world's wounds.

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