no doubt many here thoroughly understand this, but seems to me systematically neglected in media and usual debates is the central role in the historical causes of this conflict in the modern period, of British colonialism.
it's always positioned as simply Jews VS. Arabs. a more accurate depiction might be as a post-colonial conflict, exhibiting typical patterns, not dissimilar to ongoing wars in parts of Africa.
maybe some of you history profs can expand
I dunno dudes already in Israel would be my guess. I mean come on any armed Palestinian group worth its salt has to maintain sleeper operatives (or maybe not sleeper but, dormant) in Israel at all times as a contingency for exactly this.
or arab Israelis