Why didn't Jews and Palestinians get along with Israel?

Answer 1

Reasons for Palestinian Opposition to the Zionists/Israelis

The Palestinian Arabs were actually quite adamant about not giving the Jews any land or space as soon as it became clear in the late 1920s that the Jews intended and would soon realize their own state apparatus. They attacked the Jewish settlement in Hebron in 1929, scalping and beating many Jewish inhabitants. They organized militias to attack other Jewish settlements, they petitioned the British government to prevent Jewish Immigration (resulting in the White Papers of 1939 which banned Jewish immigration during the entire Holocaust when a place of refuge was most necessary), and consistently fought against Jewish Militias who were targeting the British colonizers instead of uniting to overthrow the British before trying to decide a resolution. The Palestinian Arabs did not support a two-state solution prior to 1967 and did not accede to the idea of a two-state solution until the Oslo Accords of 1993. Still to this day, the idea of a two-state solution (as a final solution) is relatively unpopular in Palestinian circles. The reason that Israel exists as a country is because of UN Resolution 181 and the Zionist Jews who used that resolution as the basis upon which to declare a country and defend it from military onslaught.

Other Arabs Supporting the Zionists/Israelis

Unlike the Palestinians, there were several non-Jewish populations in Mandatory Palestine that made moves after World War II to indicate their support of the Yishuv (Zionist community) and the formation of a Jewish State. The Bedouins (especially in the Galilee Region) had strong ties with the early settlements and quickly developed a rapport. Some Bedouins even learned Yiddish to familiarize themselves with these returning Jews and numerous Bedouins and Jews would farm together. This friendship turned into a natural alliance in the late 1940s, with Bedouins organizing under the Star of David against the Sedentary Palestinians who had historically maligned them. The Druze also supported the Yishuv because of the way that Jews defended Druze access to Nabi Shu'ayb (the Tomb of Jethro). The Druze fought alongside the Yishuv during the Jewish-Arab Engagement (1947-1949). There were also some Palestinians, like the citizens of Abu Ghosh who passively assisted the Yishuv during the Jewish-Arab Engagement. All three of these groups were incorporated into the State of Israel without prejudice. So, while the Yishuv certainly used these groups to their advantage, it was well-rewarded with full-scale Israeli citizenship. With the partial exception of Jordan, no Arab country has treated the Palestinians in this way at all.

Answer 2

Answer 1

The question is unfair to the majority of Israelis who do want to live peacefully with the Palestinians. It is true that some Israelis have a militant attitude toward Palestine which they base on religious scripture, but they are not representative of all Israelis, any more than militant Palestinians represent the attitude of all Palestinians.

Answer 2

Most Israelis do want peace with the Palestinians and are willing to accept a Palestinian State in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip with some landswaps. However, from the Israeli perspective, the predominant Palestinian view is that there should be no Israel and that the ultimate result of any negotiation should be the elimination of a Jewish State. Even Palestinians who support a two-state solution often do it in the context of an intermediate solution whereby eventually the rest of Israel will be surrendered to a Palestinian State. Many Israelis, therefore, see no reason to be kind and gentle with people who desire the end of their country.

Answer 3

The question is simultaneously loaded and meaningless.

Israel defends its land and its citizens against terrorist incursions, waves of rocket

launches, or military invasions, particularly the ones that originate in countries that

don't recognize Israel's right to exist and refuse to negotiate peace with it. As it

happens, almost all of those things typically come from countries that surround

Israel, and especially the ones that keep large numbers of so-called "Palestinians"

in so-called "refugee camps" instead of assimilating them into Muslim life, culture,

and economies in those countries. To be accurate about it, there actually IS no

such country as 'Palestine' yet. There could have been, a long time ago, but that

would have ruined everything for the countries who 'host' those people, and feed

them on the promise that one day all the Jews will be wiped out and you'll get

everything they own.

Answer 4

Jews get along fine with Israel. Palestinians don't, mainly because their leaders
constantly incite them and their children toward hatred of Jews.