I thought that most of the Palestinian's problem developed when they attempted to take over an arab country and thousands of them were slaughtered.

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"Most people can't think, most of the remainder won't think, the small fraction who do think mostly can't do it very well. The extremely tiny fraction who think regularly, accurately, creatively and without self delusion---In the long run these are the only people that count."Robert Heinlein

No. The Palestinians and the Arabs get along well for the most part. Some Palestinians are Christian. Some are Muslim. They are originally thought to have been descended from Phoenicians. All I know is they were trading with the Arabs ' ancestors for many years so they have a history like I guess England and the US or more like US and France. The Israelites settled in the region from Mesopotamia and made treaties, warred with some and even intermarried to some extent.
According to the Hebrew scripture There was a kingdom under David and then Solomon and so on. Here's where it gets tricky. There hasn't been anything found (archaeologically), to support a kingdom of the size described in the Old Testament. But since the tribes have vowed to wipe each other off the map numerous times that isn't surprising to some. They could have done what King Tut's adversaries did and make it almost impossible to detect the kingdom ever existed. Just thought that was interesting.

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Consumption is indeed important in a free economy: particularly the freedom of consumers to buy their goods in unhampered markets. However, key to long-term economic growth is investment (savings), which is the opposite of consumption. Public policies that promote consumption — such as low interest rates — do so at the expense of savings. Less savings means less investments; an economy that does not save or invest will consume all of its resources and eventually end up bankrupt.-David Saied