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The United States’ deep and sustained support for Israel rests on a mix of historical commitments, strategic calculations in the Middle East, strong domestic political forces, and long‑standing milita...
The United States has significantly expanded its military footprint across the Middle East since 2023, with roughly 40,000–50,000 troops regionally and increased naval, air and missile‑defense assets ...
Herodotus (5th century BCE) uses a Greek word Palaistinê and describes a district "between Phoenicia and Egypt," which later writers and modern summaries treat as an early use of the name "Palestine" ...
Genetic and historical research from 2010–2020 portrays Beta Israel as a community with deep local Ethiopian roots combined with some signals compatible with ancient Levantine contact: genome‑wide stu...
Genetic studies show Israeli Jewish populations are neither genetically uniform nor unrelated to neighboring Levantine groups: major analyses find shared Middle Eastern ancestry across Ashkenazi, Seph...
Genetic studies show that uniparental markers (Y‑DNA and mtDNA) among peoples linked to the Levant and Europe display contrasting patterns: many Levantine male lineages carry haplogroups associated wi...
Peer‑reviewed chemical analyses of material identified as “ancient honey” do exist in recent reporting: researchers re‑examined residues from ~2,500‑year‑old jars and reported compounds consistent wit...
The Out of Africa theory holds that anatomically modern Homo sapiens evolved in Africa and that the worldwide populations of modern humans descend primarily from one or more migrations of those Africa...
Ashkenazi Jewish communities emerged in medieval Western Europe—first recorded in the Rhineland and northern France around the 10th century—and expanded eastward into Poland and other Slavic lands ove...
The Crusades were a series of papally‑sanctioned military campaigns from the late 11th century into the later Middle Ages that targeted territories controlled by various Muslim polities (notably in th...
Carrier strike group locations and the redeployment of air assets are deliberate, observable instruments of U.S. strategic signaling: forward presence and concentration convey deterrence or reassuranc...
Evidence for Greek travel to Palestine during Herodotus’s lifetime (mid-5th century BCE) is indirect and mixed: classical texts like Herodotus describe the Levant and suggest Greek knowledge or contac...
Estimates vary because “Arab” and “Middle East” are defined differently by different institutions; the available reporting places the population of the Arab world in the mid‑hundreds of millions (roug...
Gaza sits above confirmed hydrocarbon resources—most notably the Gaza Marine gas field—whose development has been repeatedly blocked by political, security and economic obstacles; international studie...
Christianity's history includes well-documented episodes of organized and sporadic violence—ranging from state-backed crusades and inquisitions to local pogroms, colonial massacres, and intra-Christia...
In about 1177 B.C. the interconnected world of the Late Bronze Age in the eastern Mediterranean imploded: cities were burned or abandoned, long-distance trade networks collapsed, and Egypt fought a ma...
Mizrahi Jews are defined primarily as Jews whose ancestral origins lie in the Middle East and North Africa, encompassing communities with deep roots in places such as Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Syria, Egypt, ...
Qatar functions as a central logistical and diplomatic hub for US counter‑terrorism operations in the Middle East, hosting thousands of US servicemembers, supporting joint military exercises, and faci...
The USS Liberty was a United States Navy technical research (signals intelligence) ship operating in the Eastern Mediterranean during the Six-Day War, positioned to from Israeli and Arab forces—an ass...
Two recent lines of evidence present conflicting pictures: a 2024–2025 systematic review and meta-analysis reports in penile size with the largest stretched and flaccid measures in men living in the A...