The Israel-Palestine Conflict | A Brief, Simple History
One of the biggest myths about the Israel-Palestine conflict is that it's been going on for centuries, that this is all about ancient religious hatreds.
2016-01-20 19:00:00 - Vox
In fact, while religion is involved, the conflict is mostly about two groups of people who claim the same land. And it really only goes back about a century, to the early 1900s.
At its heart, it is a conflict between two self-determination movements, the Jewish Zionist project and the Palestinian nationalist project, that lay claim to the same territory.