Tensions between Israel and the Palestinian people over land ... but most historians begin the story with the first waves of modern Jewish migration to the Holy Land, in the 1880s.

But the dream of a home in Biblical Israel was deeply rooted in the culture of the Jewish diaspora, and modern Zionism emerged ... and declared as its aim "the creation of a home for the Jewish ...

In the creation of modern Israel, traces of most of these precedents can be found—conquest, war of liberation, immigration, rebirth, international action—although no really close parallel exists.