Then the steady influx of European Jews, Zionists, upset this relationship that had existed for centuries or more-or-less peaceful co-existance.
It's perhaps an even more terrible irony that these people living in Palestine, were, probably, all Jews to varying degrees, sharing many deep-rooted cultural and historic ties and similarities. For example the root names of settlements and geographic locations. Basically, Jewish, but with a layer of Arab and Muslim on the surface, but dig deeper ethnically and historically and the similarities are striking.
Why? It's because the great diaspora of the Jewish people from Old Israel, orchestrated by the Romans didn't happen on anywhere near the scale Judo-Christian legend and mythology said it did.
The Jewish people, tribes, never vacated Israel, or where forced out and into slavery by the Romans. There is no Roman record of this happening and the Romans wrote down everything that happened, yet strangely, nothing about evicting hundreds of thousands of Jews from Israel.
It would have been a logistical impossibility for Rome to mount such an exercise two thousand years ago, a massive waste of resources and something unique in Roman history. Mass expulsions were not a part of Rome's way of doing business in their vast and complex empire. Repeat, there is no hisorical evidence that the Romans expelled the Jewish population from Israel/Palestine. Yet, this myth, lies at the heart of Zionism and Jewish identity, culture and religion.
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