... had always longed to return, every year at Passover they would hope that the next year they would be in Palestine. The Palestinian Arab claim was a lot simpler. It was simple they had always lived in Palestine (The Jews would call it Israel but the Palestinian Arabs would call it Palestine), they had never left it and they were the original settlers there, and not because they had been led by a character such as Moses. The Arabs continued to make more settlements after the Jewish Diaspora. Even which the Turks has established supremacy in the Middle east around c.1500 the Arabs still managed to continue to live in the area and when it came to 1880 and the decline of the Turkish Empire, even more Arab countries were wanting to rule them selves. It is hard for peace to reach when there are two such contrasting wants (or ...

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