A conflict that began in 1948 after the United Nations partitioned Palestine into two countries, one still known as Palestine, inhabited by Arab peoples, the other, Israel for Jews. Israel took over the rest of the area in a series of wars and Palestine doesn't exist as an independent country. Palestinian nationalists want their own country, some even resorting to terrorism to try to get it.

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A conflict that began in 1948 after the United Nations partitioned Palestine into two countries, one still known as Palestine, inhabited by Arab peoples, the other, Israel for Jews. Israel took over the rest of the area in a series of wars and Palestine doesn't exist as an independent country. Palestinian nationalists want their own country, some even resorting to terrorism to try to get it.