Traditionally Jews seeking refuge from oppression in Europe found a safe home in muslim lands.Many Jews who were expelled from Spain by catholic extremists found refuge in Morocco and Cairo.

Jews,Muslims and christians also coexisted quite peacefully for most of the time in Palestine right up to the beginning of the modern ers.

What really damaged and then destroyed relationships between the Jewish and Muslim communities was Zionism....the belief that he Jewish people were entitled to an exclusive state in Palestine.

The very first Zionist settlement in Palestine was funded by the De Rothschild millionaire family in about 1885 and things went downhill from there.The first settlement was disguised as an agricultural setup.

The early Zionists set out to buy land from absentee landlords,would not buy arab produce,would not sell arab produce,would not allow arabs into their homes or businesses or trade unions and grabbed arab land.The 1917 Balfour Declaration [Balfour himselgf wasa well known anti semite ] showed the Palestinians that their future was going to be bleak.
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