They've been at each other's throats since the nineteenth century
the aftermath of the holocaust and Jewish immigration to Palestine just accelerated the tensions over living space that had been bubbling away since Ottoman times. The Palestinians were simply on the wrong side of the effect of the world's guilt over millions of Europeans turning on their Jewish neighbours during the holocaust. They have consistently played, and been dealt, the wrong hand ever since.
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Jahled Three shades of black, Fri 25 Jul 2014, 16:18,
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