You are wrong. The ME has never been a peaceful place. Learn some history!!!
There is no recorded incidents of major violence in that area until the Zionist migration at the turn of the last century. Before that, Palestinian-Jews and Palestinian-Arabs lived in relative peace with each other. But that all changed when Zionists migrated in with their racist, apartheid laws and ideology.
You do not know what you are talking about as these massacres show
Hebron 1518
Safed 1834
Bagdad 1838
Basra 1776
Tabris 1830
All before Zionism was invented and all showing the state of play in the M.E. with the volatile arab muslims
As the great Tunisian-Jewish writer
Albert Memmi has written: "coexistence with the Arabs was not just uncomfortable, it was marked by threats periodically carried out."
And how about this
Did Jews and Arab Muslims live in peace before 1948 the state establishment of Israel Yahoo Answers
In Moorish Spain,there was the 1066 Granada massacre, when more than 1,500 Jewish families, numbering 4,000 persons, fell in one day, and in Fez in 1033, when 6,000 Jews were killed. There were further massacres in Fez in 1276 and 1465.
Other mass murders of Jews in Arab lands occurred in Morocco in the 8th century, where whole communities were wiped out by Muslim ruler Idris I; North Africa in the 12th century, where the Almohads either forcibly converted or decimated several communities; Libya in 1785, where Ali Burzi Pasha murdered hundreds of Jews; Algiers, where Jews were massacred in 1805, 1815 and 1830 and Marrakesh, Morocco, where more than 300,000 Jews were murdered between 1864 and 1880.