No, the “Israeli”-Palestinian thing started when the European allies, desperate to rid themselves of European Jewish refugees from WWII, agreed to dump them in a British-controlled strip of the Near East. These European refugees, delighted with the semi-historical connection to that area contained in a book of late neo-lithic fables, then embarked on a systematic occupation/displacement/oppression of the indigenous Arabic Muslim population which continues to this day, despite these European refugees having absolutely NO contemporary connections to that region.
No, the “Israeli”-Palestinian thing started when the European allies, desperate to rid themselves of European Jewish refugees from WWII, agreed to dump them in a British-controlled strip of the Near East. These European refugees, delighted with the semi-historical connection to that area contained in a book of late neo-lithic fables, then embarked on a systematic occupation/displacement/oppression of the indigenous Arabic Muslim population which continues to this day, despite these European refugees having absolutely NO contemporary connections to that region.