Avi, that point is debatable. The Arabs were responding to the Zionists before the state was established.
What is true is that the last peaceful years amongst Muslims was 400 years ago. It was never great.
It was not good under the Turks and it would not have been good and inhabitable now either under, Arab rule. They are killing Arabs today, not to mention Christians. To think that Jews would do better, is ludicrous.