[I]t is difficult to view the State of Israel today as being entirely native to the region.

While most of the secularist/orthodox slant will tell you - and this is not without merit - that the modern State of Israel owes its existence to and takes its legitimacy from the fact that Jews from all parts of the world uprooted themselves from their Diaspora homelands and came to region in the mid-1800s, buying land on a massive scale and developing it with the stated goal of creating a "national homeland for the jewish people", deep down they believe that the land is theirs by birthright as the "chosen" people of lore.

This puts them in conflict with the Haredi sects who believe that the jewish people lost their right to the so-called "promised land" and that attempts to reestablish it in modern times are a massive sacrilege.