There was never a time that the Arabs had ever met or knew any of the Ashkenazi because the Ashkenazi never lived anywhere in the Middle East or in any Muslim country because they lived far away from all Muslim countries of the world. They began to arrive in Palestine beginning in 1882 claiming to be the Hebrews returning home. Zionism would never have succeeded without the support of the Western Christian countries who hated the Jews and who wanted to get rid of them and therefore, they assisted them in invading and occupying Palestine.