Video: This Land is Mine (The Palestine War History)

Here is an abridged history of Palestine through a magnificent (but gory) video produced by activist Nina Paley (hat tip Lew Rockwell Blog)

The protagonists in the video can be best understood or identified in the diagram above and or from the list of people who partook of the violence shifts in Palestine's history provided by Wikipedia.org

The region has been controlled by numerous different peoples, including Ancient Egyptians, Canaanites, Israelites, Assyrians, Babylonians, Persians, Ancient Greeks, Romans, Byzantines, the Sunni Arab Caliphates, the Shia Fatimid Caliphate, Crusaders, Ayyubids, Mameluks, Ottomans, the British and modern Israelis and Palestinians. Modern archaeologists and historians of the region refer to their field of study as Syro-Palestinian archaeology.