When Israel was set up in 1948-49 on lands mostly occupied by Palestinians for centuries what's going on today was as predictable as the sun coming up.

David Ben-Gurion essentially predicted it. He said, "A people which fights against the usurpation of its land will not tire so easily. When we say that the Arabs are the aggressors and we defend ourselves — this is only half the truth. Politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves. The country is theirs, because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country."