Albert,
What is true is the fact that for much of pre zionist history the minority Jewish population of Palestine enjoyed reasonable relations with their christian and muslim Palestinian neighbours.The communities had been rubbing along together for many generations.
The coming of a European Zionist ideology and colonial settlers intent on creating a Zionist state in this sensitive land was bound to create massive inter communal and inter religious conflict ...and it did.
The founding of the state of Israel at the expense of the majority Palestinian population was done with the connivance of the great western powers who had done so little to help Jewish refugees from the Holocaust.
The solution they arrived at was to create a catastrophe for the Palestinian people who have been oppressed,attacked and brutalised ever since.....but this solution has created a deadend for Israel where the most hawkish thuggish and right wing Zionists have state recognition and indeed support.And all the time this state has been armed and economically supported by the most powerful nation in the world .
Albert