For a long time I've been hearing about this conflict but I have to admit ignorance on the subject. Can someone please provide a brief history of how it all started and what it's all about? Or link me to a previous post if you've seen this question before.
Thank you in advance for your response r/Askhistorians
Hi!
There's a lot of history to cover, so I'll link you first to a question I answered on how Israel was established, which is a good place to start (takes the conflict from roughly 1880 to 1948):
After you're done with that, let me know. You'll have gotten a basic idea of the origin of the conflict, then I can point you to questions that detail subsequent conflict.
There's no real easy way to go over all the history in one go: that's the subject for volumes upon volumes of books, mountains of ink and paper, and I doubt it's possible to ever really cover adequately here. What you may want to try doing is watching the AMA I'm hosting on Israel (Modern Conflict) in 3 days (July 19th), and ask any questions that come to mind. Read the other questions, and with any luck people will ask enough that you'll get a round idea of it :).