The people in that part of the world (Jews, Arabs, Turks, Cypriots, Iranians/Persians) are all mixed breed mongrels,
chup chengs. They are all Phoenician-Canaanites, if you bring back the timeline a bit further.
It's just a bunch of Muslim Arabs who are bitter at having embarassingly lost a war against Israel twice despite having numerical advantage (and Soviet support comparable to US support at that time), and who think their kind have a 'birthright' to the land, since the Ottoman Empire was the most recent tenant of that land.