The conflict between the Zionists and Palestinians certainly did not suddenly start with the 1948 war.....it was the intention of the Zionists to establish their state in what is now Israel from the very beginning of the Zionist enterprise going back to pre World War One times when the Jewish population was less than 10% of the population of land.This made the Palestinian majority very apprehensive of what was to come and the deals being done over their heads by the Superpowers including the UK.
And the Palestinian people are still unwilling to be frogmarched out of their country and out of their own history and we can all see the political perversions that Israel/Zionism has taken to deal with the people they oppress in the West Bank,in Gaza and in Jerusalem not to mention within the borders of Israel itelf.
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