Were Jewish-Muslim relations much better before the creation of Israel and the expulsion of Palestinians ?

Answer 1

Not really.

The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem was a fan of Hitler and vice versa.

This was in the 1930's and '40s

Answer 2

the answer is yes.

Many anti-Arab and anti-Islam people here will say different. But, as many Palestinians and Arabs point out... the Arabs -Christian and Muslim - did not drive the Jews out of the middle east. They did not massacre 6,000,000 of them during world war II.

That was the work of the Romans and European Christians.

If Arabs, specifically Palestinians, had such hatred for Jews before the creation of Israel, Jewish holy sites and Jews in general would not be found in Israel/Palestin today.

Answer 3

In the 1929 there was a massacre of Jews by Palestinians at Hebron. During the 1920's and 30's there were thousands of Jews who immigrated to Palestine mainly from Russia and Poland. They were not treated well after arriving in Palestine. The answer is no.

Answer 4

It is hard to call something an expulsion if a majority of the Arabs left on their own accord.

And for the record, no. There were numerous incidents in the late 1920s, early 1930s in which there were many conflicts of which the British handled in their typical manner.
e.g. Hebron in 1929.

Answer 5

They were always tense, ever since the conflict 4000 years ago between Sarah, the wife of Abraham, the mother of Isaac, the father of the Jews, and Hagar, the maidservant of Sarah, the mother of Ishmael (whose father was also Abraham), the father of the Arabs. The patriarchal account states twice that Ishmael would be blessed and become a great nation. And that he would never get along with his relatives (the Jews), nor anyone else [sons of Japheth (Eurasia and the Americas), the sons of Ham (the Africans) other sons of Shem (i.e., Persians, Turks)], because he would use his power against everyone, and that everyone else would be against him, according to Genesis 16:12.

But, yes, relations were much better before the conflict for Palestine began to arise in the early 20th century. But they were always bad (i.e., the slaughter and expulsion of the Jews in Arabia in the 7th century by Muhammed's son). Israel was the nation in Palestine from the13th century BC up until their expulsion in 70AD. Afterwards they slowly began to migrate back to the land of Palestine from the end of the Roman Empire in the 4th and 5th centuries, throughout the Ottoman Empire and the intermittent Papal rule, until the end of the British Empire occupation in 1948. It was attacks on the Jews by its surrounding neighbors in 1948, 1967, and 1973 that was responsible for the emigration of Palestinian Arabs of which you call an "expulsion". (Why would anyone want to live in a land ruled by their victorious enemies, the Jews, whom were provoked by their neighbors towards warfare? So, of course a majority of Palestinian Arabs fled!)

Now, name one leader before either 1948 or Arafat that the Palestinian Arabs to whom they paid their allegiance? None? And where was Arafat born and raised before all this occurred? It was Egypt. Well, this shows that there never was an Arab Palestinian state to begin with, until the United Nations in 1948 declared one to be in existence, along side of the Jewish state of Israel.

Please check anything that you are told with the historical accounts in the archives of libraries all around the world. Because, out of sympathies for one's own, propaganda is very likely to arise, causing the conveniency of a revisionist view of history.

Answer 6

There were countries that practiced moderate forms of Islam that were tolerant of their minority Jewish and Christian populations, like Morocco and Turkey, and others like Saudi Arabia, that do not permit Jews to enter. The establishment of the state of Israel, reinforced by govermment controlled propaganda and now satellite distributed propaganda, justified and hardened the anti-Israel/anti-Jewish attitudes in much of the Arab world. In the most extreme Islamist groups, the villians are almost always Zionists-the byword for any Jew- and Crusaders-the terminology for any Christian.

Answer 7

In the beginning Muslims excepted Jews and Christians on an almost equal basis. They were called the "People of the Book" and shared many of the same people of the book although they didn't give them the importance that that religion gave to them For example: Muslims believe in Jesus but only as a major prophet. After Mohammad died things began to change and the Muslims went on a rampage to convert the known world to the Muslim religion. But they weren't the only religious group to attempt this.

Answer 8

They were in Jerusalem, where they lived in harmony for many generations.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nusseibeh

Even today, individual Muslims and Jews get along just fine. Because of the cultural values of literacy and learning, they are often colleagues in fields such as medicine, science, engineering, and history.

Other values often unite them, as well. I remember when Jewish and Muslim families got together to pressure their upscale public school system to provide Kosher meals and undecorated prayer places in school facilities, and to allow students to wear modest PE clothes, rather than requiring them to wear shorts and maillots.

Answer 9

Yes, if you prefer living under Dhimmi status.

and is that why a dozen Muslim nations found it necessary to expel their Jewish populations, even if they were thousands of miles away from Israel like Iraq and Morocco.

Answer 10

Historically speaking, this was before 1948. The region is more complicated now. And, many generations have lived through the conflicts...