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The record of human habitation in what is today Israel dates to the Paleolithic Period. Efforts by Jews to establish a national state there began in the late 19th century. Britain supported Zionism and in 1923 assumed political responsibility for what was then called Palestine. Migration of Jews to this region, which increased during the period of Nazi persecution, led to deteriorating relations with Arabs. In 1947 the UN voted to partition the region into separate Jewish and Arab states. The State of Israel was proclaimed in 1948, and Egypt, Transjordan (later Jordan), Syria, Lebanon, and Iraq immediately declared war on it. Israel won that war (see Arab-Israeli wars) as well as the 1967 Six-Day War, in which it occupied the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Golan Heights, and east Jerusalem. Another war with its Arab neighbours followed in 1973, but the Camp David Accords led to a peace treaty between Israel and Egypt in 1979. Israel invaded Lebanon in 1982 to expel the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) from that country, and in late 1987 an uprising broke out among Palestinians of the occupied territories of the West Bank and Gaza Strip (see intifāḍah). Peace negotiations between Israel and the Arab states and Palestinians began in 1991. Israel and the PLO agreed in 1993 to a five-year plan to extend self-government to the Palestinians of the occupied territories. Israel signed a peace treaty with Jordan in 1994. Israeli soldiers and a Lebanese militia, Hezbollah, clashed throughout the 1990s. Israeli troops withdrew from Lebanon in 2000, and negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians broke down amid violence that claimed hundreds of lives. In an effort to stem the fighting, Israel in 2005 withdrew its soldiers and settlers from parts of the West Bank and from all of the Gaza Strip, which came under Palestinian control. In 2006 a Hezbollah operation against Israel resulted in a month-long war in Lebanon. The peace process between Israel and the Palestinians came to a near halt during most of the 2010s, and tension between Hamas, which took control of the Gaza Strip in 2007, and Israel escalated to open fighting several times between 2012 and 2021. Israel and Palestinian militants began a war on October 7, 2023, when Hamas launched an attack on Israel that killed more than 1,200 people, primarily Israeli citizens, making it the deadliest day for Israel since its independence.
Source for the haters: https://www.britannica.com/summary/Israel#%3A~%3Atext=The+record+of+human+habitation%2Cwhat+was+then+called+Palestine.
Game is fine so far.
People get all in their feelings over a game. A story. Would they get this worked up over a book? These people have to bitch about something to feel alive.
I feel alive taking in a game how it was written and designed to be played. I don’t worry about cultural norms or other petty bullshit. Enjoy the gameplay, the world design and a new experience.
Now, give me a Black Flag sequel with a female lead, a revamped ship combat and more pirate comedy. Top it off with some lesbien romance and outfits. Just to piss off the Republican snowflakes.
Doomed, maybe not, but it’ll take a while to unite as a species and leave the planet. We could easily do it with the combined knowledge, tech and resources of a united earth. I think we will get there, but we can’t destroy ourselves over petty little lines in the sand and cultural differences. You bring hope and that’s what we’ll need going forward.
Correct. I mean, lifespans are 125 years max. So we had to transfer knowledge down, and amazingly…we’ve conquered a whole planet. But sadly we can’t unite and that will be the undoing of the human race. Until we can put petty deferences aside, and pool resources as a species? We will never be more than a chapter in Eath’s history.
This. When the user hasn’t even showed up yet, setting up a local account out of the box saves a bunch of time.