As per the given question the given statement "Both have laid claim to the same land that has cultural importance to both Arabs and Jews" best explains why tensions exist between Israel and the Arab world.
Arab, any member of the Middle Eastern or North African ethnic groups who speaks Arabic. The word originally referred to the predominantly nomadic Semitic peoples of the Arabian Peninsula before the advent of Islam in the 630s CE. After they embraced Islam, it began to apply to all Arabic-speaking peoples in Africa, from the Mauritanian and Moroccan coasts east to Iraq and the Arabian Peninsula and south to Sudan. Traditionally, some Arabs live as pastoral nomads in the desert (see Bedouin), while others reside beside oases or in small, remote farming communities.
A Jew is someone with Jewish ancestry or who has adopted Judaism as their religion. A Jew is someone who practices. Judaism as well as someone who is of Jewish ethnic ancestry. Jews often think of themselves as a people and not only as followers of a religion. Jews are a Middle Eastern ethnic and religious group. According to Halakha, the traditional code of Jewish law, a person is Jewish if their mother was Jewish or if they converted to Judaism.
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