Together with the likes of Tzatz, you persist with this falsehood. For until the close to WW1 and Balfour’s colonial exuberance, many in ‘Arab Palestine’ were comfortable with modest levels of ‘Jewish return’:
Many Palestinians referred to their Jewish neighbors as their awlâd ‘ammnâ or paternal cousins. Under Ottoman rule, Palestinian Arabs distinguished between their compatriot Jews, whom they referred to as abna al-balad, ‘natives’, or yahūd awlâd ‘arab, ‘Arab-born Jews’, and recent Zionist immigrants.
