A commonly used excuse for violence against Jews in the State of Israel is occupation.
Yet violence against local Jews began long before the excuse of occupation or even the creation of the State of Israel in 1948:
1517: 1st Safed Pogrom, Ottoman Palestine
1517: 1st Hebron Pogrom, Ottoman Palestine
1660: 2nd Safed Pogrom, Ottoman Palestine
1834: 2nd Hebron Pogrom, Ottoman Palestine
1834: Safed Pogrom, Ottoman Palestne
1847: ethnic cleansing of the Jews in Jerusalem, Ottoman Palestine
1920: Irbid Massacres: British mandate Palestine
1921: 1st Jaffa riots, British mandate Palestine
1928: Ikhwan Masacres, Egypt, and british mandate Palestine.
1929: 3rd Hebron Pogrom British mandate Palestine.
1929 3rd Safed Pogrom, British mandate Palestine.
1933: 2nd Jaffa riots, British mandate Palestine.
1936: 3rd Jaffa riots, British mandate Palestine
Occupation
The occupation of Gaza ended in 2005. Judging by the violence emanating from Gaza, it is very clear that occupation is a symptom of the conflict, not the cause.
