David Ben-Gurion, Israel’s revered founding father and first prime minister, described the partition plan as “the most wonderful lever for the gradual conquest of all of Palestine.”

For many Palestinians, Israel’s war in Gaza and the Hamas attack last October that provoked it are not standalone events, but the culmination of 75 years of abuse and erasure by the Israeli government.

Source: What was the Nakba? And why does 1948 matter so much to Palestinians and Israelis? | Salon.com