the brits did their usual Divide & Conquer, as how it was back in the days of the Empire
yep that's true in a certain measure...
ok, so that was a biblical account but it isn't easily disproved as their local histories have been consistent with the biblical account.
I'm sorry janggut, i really disagree with that view...
1st) the populations in moses time had little to do with current arabs...
2nd) since the VIIIth Century jews were globally better treated in arab/turkish/persian lands that in christian european lands... there were occasional tensions true but that was still occasional... anyway until 1949-56 (with the bannishment of the communists (and many were jewish) then the bannishment of the jews by Nasser from Aegypt there were nothing similar to what happened in Spain in 1492 or in East Europa from the XVIIth to late XIXth centuries... not a surprising thing that the word pogrom is from yiddish origin)...
3rd) in Israel (not in the occupied territories but in Israel) there are 1.2 to 1.5 milions of arabs (and it is many in the standart of Israel population... something like near 20% i think) who lives peacefully with jews... they are called Israeli arabs and not palestinians but they are still leaving peacefully with jews... I don't say they're happy and content with all Israel politics but even so they are not in conflict...
I think this is really important as it may help to understand that this conflict is not a fate written in marble... or in the Bible...
well it may be for some... not for the biggest part of both populations...
