Concerning your Arabic instructor who, apparently survived the Nakba, why should a Nakba survivor have any less enmity toward their tormentors than any other ruthlessly persecuted group?
Jews and Arabs got along reasonably well until the invasion of foreign Zionist terrorist gangs. (1)
Many of the Palestinian refugees I met in Southern Lebanon didn't hate Jews for who they were but hated them for what Zionist Jews did to them.
Can you thin of any people who have not resisted foreign invaders who massacre their families, destroy their homes and steal their land?
Even Palestine's native residents who live in the West Bank have been murdered and driven from their homes by Israel's pampered psycho-Settlers (2) whose ongoing criminality is proof that Israel has never wanted peace.
(1). “
Top Ten Myths about the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”
http://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2010/06/17/top-ten-myths-about-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/
EXCERPT "Myth #1 – Jews and Arabs have always been in conflict in the region.
Although Arabs were a majority in Palestine prior to the creation of the state of Israel, there had always been a Jewish population, as well. For the most part, Jewish Palestinians got along with their Arab neighbors. This began to change with the onset of the Zionist movement, because the Zionists rejected the right of the Palestinians to self-determination and wanted Palestine for their own, to create a “Jewish State” in a region where Arabs were the majority and owned most of the land.
The British Hope-Simpson report of 1930 similarly noted that
Jewish residents of non-Zionist communities in Palestine enjoyed friendship with their Arab neighbors. “It is quite a common sight to see an Arab sitting in the verandah of a Jewish house”, the report noted. “The position is entirely different in the Zionist colonies."CONTINUED
(2). "Israel Must Loudly Arrest the Murderous West Bank Settlers"
Or risk losing any moral authority in this war.
slate.com
EXCERPT "Since Hamas’ Oct. 7 attack,
settlers there have killed more than 120 Palestinians and injured at least 2,000. They have forcibly expelled more than 800 Palestinians from their homes, blown up their generators and solar panels, and burned down tents of Bedouin herders.
Again: This has been going on not in Gaza but in the West Bank—which is governed by the Palestinian Authority, not by Hamas." CONTINUED