the jews & the surrounding arabs have tensions between them since the jews moved in to their promised land & that was since moses. ok, so that was a biblical account but it isn't easily disproved as their local histories have been consistent with the biblical account.

anyway, it was ebb & flow for them till WW2. that was when Nazis has the support of the Arabs (well arabs hate jews & cousins to the aryans, which iran & iraq have boatloads of, that's fine with the Nazis) & when the brits took over, instead of helping in patching things up, the brits did their usual Divide & Conquer, as how it was back in the days of the Empire. no sheet, that's how the brits rule over asia, by creating racial tensions which weaken the society therefore easy to control & manage.

& no, i'm not anti-brit.

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