I thought this bit was pretty interesting. It shows that the Palestinians' anger is not just with Jews, but with anyone who is subjugating them. Seems like it's about time to let them govern themselves. They've waited long enough for it...

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In 1938 Britain ruled what was then known as Palestine. The Jerusalem Post looks at British documents, declassified in 1989, that "provide details of the British Mandatory government's response to the assassination of a British district commissioner by a Palestinian Arab terrorist in Jenin in the summer of 1938":

Even after the suspected assassin was captured (and then shot dead while allegedly trying to escape), the British authorities decided that "a large portion of the town [Jenin] should be blown up" as punishment. On August 25 of that year, a British convoy brought 4,200 kilos of explosives to Jenin for that purpose.

In the Jenin operation and on other occasions, local Arabs were forced to drive "mine-sweeping taxis" ahead of British vehicles in areas where Palestinian Arab terrorists were believed to have planted mines, in order "to reduce [British] landmine casualties."