re: Why was Israel attacked?

Smeg, the picture showing "historic palestine" is false. There never was a "historic palestine". When Israel was created in a day, as biblically predicted, there were a mix of people living in that land. Only after Israel became prosperous did Arabs make up the false claim about it being their land.

Arabs & Jews are both descendants of Abraham. Arabs by way of Hagar/Ismail and Jews from Sara/Isaac. Isaac was the child of promise by way of Sara who God allowed to become pregnant at 99 years old. Ismail was a child Abraham had with his servant Hagar attempting to fulfill God's promise on his own.

Jews and Arabs have been opposites and despite one another since the beginning and always will.