AGES, long before the establishment of the state of Israel. Arabs in North Africa participated in pogroms related to the Nazi war. The Arab riots in the '30's resulted in the British reducing both land sales and immigration to Jews, and helped seal the fate of people in Hitler's Europe. The Mufti of Jerusalem spent most of the war years in Berlin, where he broadcast horrifically antisemitic garbage to the Middle East, recruited Muslim troops to serve under Hitler, who participated directly in the persecution of Gypsies, Jews and the Serbians who were fighting for the Allies. I'm including a link to an ISLAMIC website below, where you can verify this information. It is, however, widely documented. You can cross-reference this in the transcripts of the Nuremburg Trials.
Oh, there has been a LOT for a very long time, even before the first Zionist settlers appeared. Even in the best of times Jews in this region - and there were large populations - have been at best second-class citizens - by which I mean they had to pay annual taxes to be allowed to practice their religion, wore special clothes, lived in separate quarters, performed "unclean" jobs, rode asses instead of horses, and so forth. This did not prevent some from rising in the esteem of powerful men but for the population as a whole, it would now be considered "apartheid."
Compared to the murderous antisemitism of Europe, this wasn't a bad deal. The Jewish population of Iraq, for example, became well-educated and well-off.
However, that entire population was evicted after 1948, like the other Jewish communities across the Middle East.
In the worst of times, people were beaten and murdered and their homes destroyed.
There's a link to the coup that overthrew the government in Iraq in 1941, in which the Mufti of Jerusalem was involved, and which resulted also in the deaths of many Jews.
A little perspective on this matter is requested, please.
Here are links, the first of which discusses the JEWISH refugees of the Middle East and the second, the history of Jewish Morocco. Morocco has traditionally been one of the MOST tolerant places for Jews. Yet, you can see by reading through this, all has not been roses. And, of course, that population was expelled also.
Included as well is information about the fate of Jewish North Africa, excluding British-held Egypt, during WWII. The last link is the website of the Sunni Imam, Sheikh Abdul Hadi Palazzi, who is a Ph.D. and professor of Islamic history.
All of this information has been thoroughly researched and documented and can be cross-checked. This is NOT the revisionist history which is becoming so popular today, and which seeks to completely wipe out these stories.
http://www.jcpa.org/jl/jl102.htmhttp://rickgold.home.mindspring.com/page10.htmlhttp://www.u.arizona.edu/~shaked/Holocaust/lectures/lec10b.htmlhttp://www.eretzyisroel.org/~jkatz/farhud.htmlhttp://www.tellthechildrenthetruth.com/Those poor babies are hardly the first, nor is this conflict of recent vintage. And it is HARDLY a one-sided affair, based on the nastiness of those evil Israelis.
If you have links to the resistance of young people like this against the Nazis, I would like to see them. Many Palestinians did enter the British army, but many others signed with Hitler, and his philosophy, unfortunately, was very popular throughout the Middle East.
As to the settlers, however wrong they might be, their "stealing" has thus far amounted to 2% of the land in the OT. In the cases of the close-in settlements, that help protect the narrow neck of Israel, those will probably stay. The others, I doubt they'll be there forever, they are absolutely not helping the cause of peace.
You should be aware, however, that ancient Jewish communities, that date back to Biblical times, were present on the West Bank. They fell prey to riots and pogroms in the early 20th century.
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