Since the declaration of Israel's establishment in 1948, conflict has existed between Israel and the surrounding Arab countries, rooted in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Zionists viewed the region
Egyptian forces crossing the Suez Canal on 7 October 1973
Begin, Carter and Sadat at Camp David on 7 September 1978
Yitzhak Rabin, Bill Clinton, and Yasser Arafat at the Oslo Accords signing ceremony on 13 September 1993
Official Presidential Portrait of President Donald J. Trump
Israel and the Palestinians are engaged in an ongoing military and political conflict about land and self-determination within the former territory of Mandatory Palestine. Key aspects of the conflict
Arab–Israeli conflict
…Since the declaration of Israel's establishment in 1948, conflict has existed between Israel and the surrounding Arab countries, rooted in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. Zionists viewed the region of Palestine as the Jewish ancestral homeland and sought to establish a Jewish state or homeland there through colonization…
The 1917 Balfour Declaration from UK Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour to Walter Rothschild expressing the support of the British government for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people."
British colonial Palestine Police Force dispersing a crowd in the Jaffa riots, seen as the start of the Arab revolt (1936–1939) in Palestine against British rule and the mass Jewish immigration and rapid expansion of Jewish settlements it allowed.
Haganah ship Jewish State carrying illegal Jewish immigrants from Europe at the Haifa Port, Mandatory Palestine, 1947
Distribution of Palestine land ownership in 1945