<P> The history of the Israeli--Palestinian conflict began with the establishment of the state of Israel in 1948 . </P> <P> This conflict came from the intercommunal violence in Mandatory Palestine between Israelis and Arabs from 1920 and erupted into full - scale hostilities in the 1947--48 civil war . The conflict continues to the present day on various levels . </P>

When did the palestinian and israeli conflict start