Israel-Palestine conflict: What Israel really wants Despite numerous negotiations, conferences and agreements, there has never been peace between Israel and the Palestinians following the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. The past 75 years have been marked primarily by Israel's repression, violent displacement, and systematic dispossession of the local Palestinian population. The world has been witnessing the longest ethnic cleansing operation of the 20th and 21st centuries. The international community has allowed this conflict to fester for decades. In the recent past, through its occupation, colonization and territorial expansion, Israel has consistently obstructed the formation of a Palestinian state and undermined the possibility of a two-state solution. In particular, under the ultra-nationalist and supremacist Netanyahu governments, mor ...