The Origins of the Arab-Jewish Conflict Over Palestine 

• Politically motivated mythology of "Palestine"

• After the destruction of the Temple, the Jews fled to Arabia
• Medina, Islam's second holiest city, was originally a Jewish "settlement"
• Islam justifies its existence through the failure of Judaism, a successful Jewish State is a theological threat to Moslems everywhere

• Continuous Jewish Presence in the "Holy Land"
• The Islamic Conquest's Plunder of Palestine
• Religious Persecution of Jews by Arabs
• The Myth of Moslem-Jewish coexistence in "Palestine"
• Throwing Stones at Jews is based in Ancient Islamic Ritual
• Oriental Zionism of Arab-born Jews, one thousand years before Theodore Herzl

• Palestine was inhabited by a mixed population
• Palestine, a land virtually laid waste with little population 
• Bareness and oppression of Palestine due to feudal system of taxes by absentee Arab Landowners
• Native Population almost wholly descended from Jews who had been forcibly converted to Christianity or Islam, not Arab in origin

• The Myth of Palestinian Nationalism, narrowly defined, anti-Semitism
• How Feudal Arab Landowners who exploited their peasantry became Nationalist Leaders when Jewish economic success threatened to liberate their peasantry
• The proposed 1938 & 2001 partitions of Western Palestine & The British Policy of Appeasement

• Substantial Immigration of Arab Migrant workers into Western Palestine from 1880-1948

• Palestinian Refugees, invited to leave in 1948
• How many Palestinians Refugees? inflating the numbers
• Arab-Jewish Refugees, the other Middle Eastern Refugee problem
• Exchange of Populations
• Why are Palestinian Refugees treated differently than all other refugees in the world?
• Palestinian Refugees, unlike other refugees in the world, were denied resettlement opportunities, for political reasons
• Bibliography

This page was produced by Joseph E. Katz
Middle Eastern Political and Religious History Analyst 
Brooklyn, New York 
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Source: "From Time Immemorial" by Joan Peters, 1984
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