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Early history of Palestine and Jewish

he roots of the conflict can be traced to the late 19th century, with the rise of
national movements, including Zionism and Arab nationalism. Though the Jewish
aspiration to return to Zion had been part of Jewish religious thought for more than a
millennium, the Jewish population of Europe and to some degree Middle East began
to more actively discuss immigration back to the Land of Israel, and the re-
establishment of the Jewish Nation, only during the 1859 to 1880s, largely as a
solution to the widespread persecution of Jews due to antisemitism in Russia and
Europe. As a result, the Zionist movement, the modern movement for the creation of
a homeland for the Jewish people, was established as a political movement in 1897.
The Zionist movement called for the establishment of a nation state for the
Jewish people in Palestine, which would serve as a haven for the Jews of the world
and in which they would have the right for self-determination. Zionists increasingly
came to hold that this state should be in their historic homeland, which they referred
to as the Land of Israel.The World Zionist Organization and the Jewish National Fund
encouraged immigration and funded purchase of land, both under Ottoman rule and
under British rule, in the region of Palestine while Arab nationalism, at least in an
early form, and Syrian nationalism were the dominant tendencies, along with
continued loyalty to the Ottoman state, in the area.
According to Benny Morris, among the first recorded violent incidents between
Arabs and the newly immigrated Jews in Palestine was the accidental shooting death
of an Arab man in Safed, during a wedding in December 1882, by a Jewish guard of
the newly formed Rosh Pinna. In response, about 200 Arabs descended on the
Jewish settlement throwing stones and vandalizing property. Another incident
happened in Petah Tikva, where in early 1886 the Jewish settlers demanded that
their tenants vacate the disputed land and started encroaching on it. On March 28, a
Jewish settler crossing this land was attacked and robbed of his horse by Yahudiya
Arabs, while the settlers confiscated nine mules found grazing in their fields, though it
is not clear which incident came first and which was the retaliation. The Jewish
settlers refused to return the mules, a decision viewed as a provocation. The
following day, when most of the settlement's men folk were away, fifty or sixty Arab
villagers attacked Petach Tikva, vandalizing houses and fields and carrying off much
of the livestock. Four Jews were injured and a fifth, an elderly woman with a heart
condition, died four days later.
By 1908, thirteen Jews had been killed by Arabs, with four of them killed in
what Benny Morris calls "nationalist circumstances", the others in the course of
robberies and other crimes. In the next five years twelve Jewish settlement guards
were killed by Arabs. Settlers began to speak more and more of Arab "hatred" and
"nationalism" lurking behind the increasing depredations, rather than mere "banditry".
Zionist ambitions were increasingly identified as a threat by the Arab leaders in
Palestine region. Certain developments, such as the acquisition of lands from Arab
owners for Jewish settlements, which led to the eviction of the fellaheen from the
lands which they cultivated as tenant farmers, aggravated the tension between the
parties and caused the Arab population in the region of Palestine to feel
dispossessed of their lands. Ottoman land-purchase regulations were invoked
following local complaints in opposition to increasing immigration. Ottoman policy
makers in the late 19th century were apprehensive of the increased Russian and
European influence in the region, partly as a result of a large immigration wave from
the Russian Empire. The Ottoman authorities feared the loyalty of the new
immigrants not so much because of their Jewishness but because of concern that
their loyalty was primarily to their country of origin, Russia, with whom the Ottoman
Empire had a long history of conflicts: immigrant loyalty to Russia might ultimately
undermine Turkish control in the region of Palestine. This concern was fomented by
the example seen in the dismantling of Ottoman authority in the Balkan region.
European immigration was also considered by local residents to be a threat to the
cultural make-up of the region. The regional significance of the anti-Jewish riots
(pogroms) in Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and anti-immigration
legislation being enacted in Europe was that Jewish immigration waves began
arriving in Palestine (see First Aliyah and Second Aliyah). As a result of the extent of
the various Zionist enterprises which started becoming apparent, the Arab population
in the Palestine region began protesting against the acquisition of lands by the
Jewish population. As a result, in 1892 the Ottoman authorities banned land sales to
foreigners. By 1914 the Jewish population in Palestine had risen to over 60,000, with
around 33,000 of these being recent settlers.
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