We often watch reporters in the Middle East reporting on a new issue.
But what exactly are they talking about?
Although the Israeli/Palestinian conflict is indeed a long and
fact filled conflict, the BS nobody cares about
I'll still try to explain it to you within 10 minutes, before we start
let's actually start by defining some terms
An Israeli is a citizen of Israel
Israelis are mainly Jewish, although 20% are Muslims and Christians
And are descendants of the Hewbrews, or biblical Jews.
A Palestinian on the otherhand
is someone who either lives, or lived in Palestine
or has Palestinian
heritage
they speak Arabic and are often Muslims or
followers of Islam
Now that we have done that, let's start by
explaining how the Ottoman
Empire controlled historical
Palestine for about 400 years
for that time Palestine was controlled
by the Arabs
or the Muslims, and was also located right next to Arabian States 
Egypt, Syria
Jordan, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia
By the end of the 1800's, a man known as 
Theodor Herzl, published an article known
as the "State of the Jews"
where he demanded the union and advocated
the establishment
of a Jewish government and a state within
the Middle East
this resulted in a massive immigration of Jews 
into Palestine
But why a government and state in the middle
east? Why not someplace else?
Well, biblically speaking, Jacob and the children of Israel
the original Jews, were given
Israel by God himself, however, overtime
Famine forced Jacob and the children to move into Egypt
where for four generations they were slaves to the
Egyptians
Eventually, Moses, the grandson of Jacob
led them across the Red Sea, back to
Israel
where they reigned for the next two
thousand years
However, after the Romans came,
the Jews lost control of the land
only up until the 21st century. Now,
Theodor Herzl was one of the first Zionists,
Zionists are believers of Zionism
or the belief that the Jewish people
should have a national home of their own
this originated as a result of
Europe's anti-semitism,
or hostility towards, against the Jews
Anyways, the Ottoman Empire, who had
previously controlled Palestine
Allies with the Central Powers, who end
up losing World War 1
The British end up gaining Palestine, and in 1917
Arthur James Balfour issues a
declaration to Baron Rothschild saying that
the British support the creation
a Jewish state, this causes a 
massive surge of Jews into Palestine,
especially from Europe to escape Hitler and
his Nazis
In response to Zionist immigration and
settlement
Palestinian nationalism emerged during
the interwar period
the indigenous inhabitants of Palestinian
resisted Zionist settlement almost
from the beginning
in the countryside, the Palestinians engaged
the settlers with forced the occupation
and the repossession
of their lands, assaults against settlers
the sabotage of crops, while in cities acts of
arson were committed
and access to holy sites were restricted. By the time
World War 2 had ended,
The Holocaust allows the Jews to argue
for the need of a Jewish safe haven
as 6,000,000 million Jews were killed during
this time. World War 2 also resulted in 
Britain
giving up its mandate on the state of Palestine to the United Nations
In 1947, after years of arguing for the establishment of a Jewish state
the United Nations decided to partition
Palestine into two states
in UN resolution 181, which gave the Jews
57% of the land. while the Arabs would
get about 43% of the land
Finally on May 14, 1948
the state of Israel was finally born,
however,
because no borders were defined ,tensions
broke out as a Jewish state among many
Arabian states created fury
It also consequently started the 1948
Arab/Israeli War, or as I like to say
Israel verses Syria, Jordian
Iraq, and Egypt, the 1948 war was known by the Israelis as the war of 
independence which resulted in the
establishment
of the state of Israel within its commonly recognized borders
by Israel's neighboring countries, although at first reluctant,
Israel's neighboring countries were forced to accept
after their embarrassing defeat. After that point,
tensions between Israels and Palestinians continued to rage on
because the Palestinians had literally gotten kicked out of the land
which they had lived on for years, and now had been forced to live under the rule
of the Jews
up until June 4th 1967
Israel finally launched a surprise attack 
on their Arab neighbors, Jordan and Egypt retaliated and fought
back but in the end, Israel obtains
the West Bank, and the Gaza Strip now
meaning that it has
acquired 100% of what was formally historical Palestine
this was also known as the 1967 Six Day War
Even till this day, the Israelis and the Palestinians have resented each other
a 2-State solution has often been proposed in which Israeli leaders
have proposed the separation of Israel and giving a good portion of it
to Palestine as a state
this would create two states so that each nation could house their own people
Despite that, Palestinian leaders have disagreed
And that's pretty much it.
