This programme explains so much about how this conflict began. I am very ignorant about it and have been learning what I can, but had not previously seen anything that explained as much as this does, so I wanted to come on here to say it is absolutely worth watching.
It would seem what is happening now is in many ways a continuation.
This was the first episode out of six.
1948-56The Fifty Years War: Israel and the ArabsSeries 1 Episode 1 of 6
In 1948, the state of Israel was proclaimed. This episode recounts how the US, later Israel's greatest ally, came close to stopping the creation of the new state. Made in 1998.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0glc8xt