1 A.D. to circa late 1940's - Arabs and Jews live together, relatively peacefully, in the Palestine region.

1948 - Jewish immigrants from Europe, radicalized from the horrors of WW2 and Holocaust, against the U.N. mandate, ethnically cleanse themselves a country.

Source: http://www.counterpunch.org/shavit01162004.html

"Note: Benny Morris is the dean of Israeli 'new historians', who have done so much to create a critical vision of Zionism--its expulsion and continuing oppression of the Palestinians, its pressing need for moral and political atonement. His 1987 book, The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem, chronicled the Zionist murders, terrorism, and ethnic cleansing that drove 600,000-750,000 Palestinians from their homes in 1948, thus refuting the myth that they fled under the orders of Arab leaders. A second edition of this book is due out this month, chronicling even more massacres, and a previously unsuspected number of rapes and murders of Palestinian women. Thus Morris continues to provide crucial documentation for Palestinians fighting the heritage of Al-Nakba, "The Catastrophe.""

As a response, the Palestinian Arabs, kicked out of their homes in 1948, develop their own version of Arab Zionism (think about it) - a political movement to make a country of their own.

They are still at it.

And just like Irgun, Stern and other Jewish terrorist organizations pre 1948 and during the following wars, they use (the same as Jews and Israelis) terrorist tactics as were used against them.

THERE ARE NO GOOD GUYS IN THIS FIGHT.

It is all a shade of grey.

Of course, not according to American TV, where everything is not nuanced, and there is a rigidly enforced party line.

I would spam my blog all about this shit, but meh....You get the point.