What was the Israeli Palestinian war How long has it been going on ?
It aroused with the Zionist movement which maintained a striking continuity in its aims and methods over the past century. From the start, the movement sought to achieve a Jewish majority in Palestine and to establish a Jewish state on as much of the LAND as possible. The methods included promoting both mass Jewish immigration and acquiring tracts of land that would become the inalienable property of the Jewish people. This policy inevitably prevented the indigenous Palestinian residents from attaining their national goals and establishing a Palestinian state. It also necessitated ethnic cleansing of the native Palestinians from their lands and properties when their presence conflicted with Zionist interests.
The Zionist movement-and subsequently the state of ISRAEL-failed to develop a positive approach to the Palestinian presence and Palestinian aspirations. Although some Israelis recognized the moral dilemma posed by the Palestinians, the majority either tried to ignore the issue or to resolve it by force majeure.
Tantura-Haifa, May 1948, Ethnically Cleansed Palestinians on their way to Jenin & Tulkarem as the massacre was happening.