... Empire fell many Arabs drew together and conquered Palestine in the 7th century. These Arabs became know as the Palestinian Arabs. They lived there for hundreds of years until the Turks took over the area and the Arabs came under Turkish rule in the 16th century, this lasted until 1914 and it was this that made Arabs dream of an independent Arab state. There have always been Jews and Arabs living in Palestine but until the turn of the 20th century they have always lived peacefully with each other and I believe that it was the huge influx of Jews into Palestine in the first world war, the inter war period and just after the second world war, this angered the Arabs because the Jews came into their home and took over, they bought up the alot of the land that was considered valuable. They first started emigrating in large ...

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