Although he was assassinated shortly before the birth of the State of Israel, the Indian leader made clear his opposition to the colonization of Palestine, as well as some reflections on the resistance, although there had not yet been the ethnic cleansing of the Palestinians that continues today Mahatma Gandhi did not see the birth of the State of Israel because he was murdered only a few months earlier, in January 1948. But the conflict did not begin with the occupation of Palestine, or even with the birth of the State of Israel, but much earlier. And Gandhi had already spoken about it.