Dimishing the Palestinian people and identity by implying they are just Arabs, who have no rights in the land of Palestine where they lived for over a thousand years, is part of Israeli propaganda.

The Arab countries attack Israel because they saw the ethnic cleansing that was occurred already before the declaration of independence, the 250,000 Palestinians who came across their borders. You never hear about the reasons the Arab League attacked, only that they were antiSemitic or something like that.

There were terrorist activities before 1940 on both sides.

The Grand Mufti, a title created by the British, was exiled from Palestine in 1937. He did visit Nazi Germany and did create a small company of Muslim fighters, but fortunately, they were never involved in the war. Like American soldiers who went over to the Nazis, they marched in parades and did nothing more.

Finally, the Palestinians had nothing to do with European antiSemitism or the Holocaust; in fact, small numbers of Jews lived in Jerusalem for centuries in safety and with respect by the Muslims who predominated. That was also true of numerous Arab countries: Jews living under protection and in peace. That is to say, until the Zionists entered Palestine and through the British, received a mandate to develop a state on Palestinian land.