I think it is important to look at who the Palestinian people are that were of age in say, 1920 to 1940. What did they do? Were they by nature violent? My stereotype of them is the "humble peasant", which may or may not be accurate. But certainly many of them were farmers, either tenant or landowners of small holdings. They raised the famous Jaffa oranges; they had olive orchards that had been tended by their families for centuries. They had sheep and donkeys, just like in the Bible...The women were known for their needlework..I have not ever read anything that suggests that they were by nature warlike, aggressive, etc...now, some people/cultures are..no getting around it..but I don't think these people were. So you take these fairly passive, and probably gentle people, take their land, legally or quasilegally or just take it, drive them literally into the sea (is that where that expression came from?) in Haifa and Jaffa, rape the women, which is one of the main reasons they said they fled, and crowd them into leaky tents in a bitter cold and wet desert (or hot and dry)...eventually move them into camps with bad sewage problems...these are not city people...it's like when the Irish were forced by cruel fate out of Ireland and into New York tenements...bad behavior ensued...that I don't think was innate to the Irish character..who knows..it might be...anyway, that is my stereotype in a nutshell.

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