The Jews lived in the ME not for just centuries, but for three thousand years, 1300 years before there was even an Arabic language and 1700 years before there were any Muslims, you ignorant asshole, but for the last 1400 years, since Muslims conquered the ME, they were by law second class citizens in all Arab Muslim countries, subject to separate laws intended persecute them and humiliate them, and forced to pay special taxes; thus making every Muslim state an apartheid state.
"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...
www.neh.gov
Far from living in peace with Jews in Muslim occupied Spain, the first pogrom on European soil was committed by Muslims in Granada in 1066.
This was the mindset of the Arabs when the Jews arrived in Palestine and this is why these Jewish immigrants were greeted with violence by the Arabs who lived there.