The Israel-Palestine conflict: a 10-minute history

When you talk to people about the Israel-Palestine conflict, the myth that you're likeliest to hear — even more than the myth that they've been fighting for centuries, or that it's all about religion — is that the conflict is too complex to possibly understand, a mess so far beyond human comprehension that we shouldn't even try.

In fact, a little over a century ago, the place we today call Israel-Palestine was pretty peaceful. And if you look at the history of what's happened since, how these past few decades have unfolded, the conflict starts to make a lot more sense:

You'll see here that there are two mostly distinct chapters to this conflict: first, the Israel-Arab conflict, and second, the smaller but much tougher Israel-Palestine conflict.

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