If all the Jews of the world vanished, would the Arabs, Muslims, and Palestinians be happy and live in peace amongst themselves and with others?

 The estimated civilian death count in the latest Yemeni civil war is 227,000. Hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been killed at the explicit instructions of Bashar al-Assad, whose father, Hafez, killed 57,000 Arab citizens of Syria in one operation against the Muslim Brotherhood in the city of Hama in 1982, which is more than the roughly 40,000 Palestinians killed by Israel since 1948. Every civilian death is to be deplored, but statistically speaking, the chance of an Arab being killed at the hands of an Israeli is far lower than the chance of being killed by another Arab.

This is not contemporary Gaza, but Hama; an Arab city destroyed by an Arab leader, leading to the mass killings of Arab civilians.

Does anyone seriously imagine that Palestine would be an oasis of peace and tolerance if all the Jews were to leave? The chances of this are very low; the various groups who are currently cooperating in the fight against Israel would turn on each other in the fight for power, control, and wealth, and the “liberated” state of Palestine would resemble Lebanon during one of its civil wars, with endless battles between the various political and religious factions; the Christians and Druze are not likely to want to live in a Sunni Islamic State of the sort envisioned by Hamas.

There was fighting amongst competing groups of Muslim Arabs from the early history of Islam: three of the early Caliphs, Umar, Uthman, and Ali, were assassinated, and following Ali’s murder, his son Hussein was killed in a battle over who should succeed him, cementing the Sunni-Shia schism that arose right after the death of the prophet Muhammad, concerning who should succeed Muhammad as leader of the Ummah. These early conflicts and the vast majority of other conflicts amongst Arabs and other Muslims since have precisely nothing to do with Jews.