"Why do Palestinians hate us?"

[xoxoxoBruce]

The Jews didn't suddenly appear in 1948, they had been moving into the area since the late 1800s, especially after 1931. As they improved the land and built the economy, more of the Palestinians were drawn to the area from all over the region... they also prospered.

At the time, as it had been for thousands of years, others ruled the area but didn't live there, until the UN gave it over to the Jews. The Palestinians didn't care because they had never been the rulers. The Arabs, who had been the rulers before the British, declared war on the Jews figuring they couldn't reclaim the area from the Brits but the Jews would be a push over.

Meanwhile most of the Palestinians, who had for centuries just split until the rulers finished fighting then moved back, followed the traditional pattern. But this was a new era and when the fighting was done, the Jews weren't going home victorious... they were home. The Palestinians that stayed and the ones that returned, prospered along with the Jews.

After the Arabs got their ass kicked, they started working on the Palestinians to become a constant threat to the Jews. By keeping them poor and pissed the could recruit them to do what outside world would frown on the Arabs doing.

Finally, in the late 80s, the Arabs organized Hamas to have better control over all the little terrorists they had groomed. The constant bullshit from Hamas became such a pain in the ass for the Jews they kicked the Palestinians out of Israel, where they were doing well as citizens... second class citizens, but a hell of a lot better off than the Palestinians that were coached by the Arabs.

The Arabs have been using the Palestinians as a tool against the Jews for sixty years, and through the Muslim Brotherhood formed Hamas, for the last twenty.