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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" ...
supports for layered reasons: and military assistance that anchor U.S. interests in , historical and moral ties dating to Israel’s 1948 recognition, and robust political and economic links that includ...
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...
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...
trace their roots to the ancient peoples of —often described as Canaanite or indigenous to the southern Levant—and many narratives among Palestinians include descent from pre-Islamic inhabitants of th...
The frames the as the stage for sacred origins, national formation, conquest, kingdom-building, — a narrative that moves from in the patriarchal tales through the ite and ite monarchies to foreign dom...
include communities who trace ancestry to the region’s early Christian populations and maintain cultural claims of deep continuity, while the broader Palestinian population underwent religious shifts ...
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...
produced some durable, if geographically narrow, reversals of Muslim control—most notably the establishment of Latin states in the for nearly two centuries and intermittent reoccupations of —yet they ...
studies show that largely belong to Middle Eastern Y-haplogroups and share substantial overlap with , indicating a common regional paternal pool rather than exclusive recent origins for either group ....
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 earliest historically attested inhabitants of the land conventionally called / were the of , a Semitic population present in the Bronze Age and described in classical sources and modern scholarshi...
A handful of and potential , cross‑Taiwan Strait tensions , a widening , and the Red Sea, and spillovers in —carry the clearest risk of expanding into wider wars by 2035 based on current trajectories ...
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...
is a long mosaic: deep hunter‑gatherer and Neolithic farmer ancestries were overlaid by influxes from the and later historical movements, producing substantial but incomplete continuity with present p...
Scholarship assembled in the provided reporting shows little evidence of sustained, large-scale in before the late 19th century; instead the record presented emphasizes long periods of coexistence und...