The Record, in Order

The Timeline

Three thousand years in order, from David's Jerusalem to today: the kingdoms and exiles, every war, every major attack, and every peace offer made and rejected. Drop in at any point, and tap a moment to open the full account, with its image and sources. Filter by what you want to trace.

Arguments about Israel almost always fight over a single frozen moment, lifted out of the sequence that explains it. This is the sequence: three thousand years in order, from David's Jerusalem and the Temples, through exile, expulsion and return, to the founding and the present day. Nothing here is spin: kingdoms and exiles, wars, attacks, treaties and rejected offers, in the order they happened. And the order is what a headline leaves out: it leads with the strike that answers, rarely the rocket, the massacre or the broken truce that came first. Read the order, not the headline.

Why this is here. A timeline cannot argue, it can only show. Read top to bottom it answers the most common move in any debate: taking one event out of its order. Dates and figures follow standard histories; the deeper case for any single entry lives on its section page, and every major claim is gathered on the sources page. This is the story of the land and the people; for the same three thousand years told as the history of the hatred against them, see The Oldest Hatred.