Article: Why Not Knowing How Israel Was Created Matters - It goes on mattering, decade after decade, that most U.S. students never encounter the word Nakba. It matters that Israel was created in 1948 through war/terrorism, through massacring families, driving some 750,000 people out of their homes, demolishing over 400 villages. It's not difficult to know. Many books even comic books have been published, films have been made, apps for your phone can locate vanished villages, etc.