you just have two uh conflicting parties each of which has 
a self-justifying view of the world each of which is determined to maintain his position we're trying to degrade hamas terrorist abilities and to degrade their will to do this again both of which see themselves in an existential struggle for existence existential struggle for dignity and neither of which is willing to surrender the palestinian-israeli conflict has reached a boiling point once more but how did we get here let's start in the early 1900s when the region now known as israel was controlled by the ottoman empire arabs in the region slowly began developing a national identity as palestinian while a growing number of jews moved into the region as part of a movement known as zionism