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I mean, the quick version is that the Jewish people were hunted and exterminated in the early 20th century, leading to an extremely large refugee population. UN agreement was made to allow them to settle in Palestine, but the Muslim population felt like this was an invasion of their land. There was a lot of violence in this time, which led to a lot of talk about setting up independent states, largely that the Muslim Palestinians rejected, and since then Israel has slowly but surely been expanding their land in the area, taking over what little Palestinians had left.

This led to Palestinians to get in bed with Hamas, an explicitly anti-semetic terrorist group, and that group has been attacking population centers of Israel while using the citizens of Palestine as cover. This leads to a lot of bloodshed, and here we are.

But this is very very simplified, and just from my vague memory, so take it with a grain of salt.