For a thousand years before Britain came to Palestine, the Jews were oppressed and persecuted in all Muslim lands
"From the early years of Islamic civilization, Muslim jurists, basing on Qur’anic directives, devised an elaborate hierarchy in which monotheistic non-Muslims, such as Christians and Jews, would be “protected” at a low level and tolerated as second-class citizens. Guidelines for their treatment were embodied in the “Pact of ‘Umar.” Limitations on the status of non-Muslims included discriminatory clothing regulations and occupational restrictions. Non-Muslims were required to pay a poll tax (
jizya) as well as discriminatory taxes on agricultural produce."
At times tolerant, at other times intensely intolerant, Spain’s intergroup relations formed a fragile coexistence of Muslims, Christians, and Jews. Although often tenuous, the coexistence of diverse languages, peoples, and religions produced an extraordinary symbiosis and distinctive...
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but when the Arabs tried to impose their will on the Jews in British Palestine, the Jews refused to bow down to them, and ever since the Arabs, now mostly the Palestinians, wage war after war to try to force the Jews to either bow down to them or die. Today, the Palestinians clearly want to oppress the Jews, but they can't.