And yet throughout history there were periods where Jews and Arabs live side by side.
Western meddling is the key here, watching the documentary "The Promised land" Palestine was a British mandate or something, after wwii and jews were repatriated from europe to palestine, this was carved up to give them a home land. It seems when the going got tough, the britsh got out.
As with many things, this is one part of the history of them so called Great british empire we don't seem to learn about (like what happened in india to create pakistan, but also disputed regions such as Kashmir.
Sure we brought trade and many other good things to the world, alongj with industry, trains etc, but the empire also did a lot of damage (slave trade for example) even though the Royal navy did enforce the ban on slavery.
I need to rewatch the documentary as in general it is easy to mis things which can be picked up after multiple viewings but the situation is complex, it is not hard to see how the British contributed to the situation.
@zleap @DrALJONES Partition was something that the British didn't want - to be fair. I'd actually recommend this film
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083987/
or see
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_India
@zleap @DrALJONES Seems to me that periods where they didn't live well together were more often than not, a result of western meddling.
But I could be wrong.