Leyzer, aderaba. It is actually compelling evidence that this vociferous Arab enmity is precisely due to Zionism (and the State of Israel).
See the (transcription of the) recording from around 30 years ago of an interview with Rabbi Baruch Kaplan who was there at the time in 1929.
This has been mentioned many times on these boards.
The 1929 Chevron Massacre was a result of “Religious Zionists”, who sought to wrest from the Arabs control over the kosel, including Rabbi Kook who proclaimed “Shema Yisrael HaKosel Kosleinu HaKosel Echad”. Rav Yosef Chaim Sonnenfeld, and the other non-Zionist Jews who lived there well before Zionists came, had begged the Zionists to stop and not instigate the Arabs, but to no avail.
The (false) rumor spread among the Arabs that their Al Aqsa mosque was threatened, and they murdered these innocent Yeshiva boys who, with Ashkenazi features, looked to the Arabs like Zionists. The Sefardim who lived elsewhere in Chevron were not harmed because the Arabs knew these were not Zionists.
Here are his closing words, translated from Yiddish, as brought elsewhere:
“Everyone must know that the anger of the Arabs against us is only caused by the Zionists!
The Arabs were a friendly people to us, and I am a witness to it. We lived very well with them in Hebron. Rabbi Alter attested to this as well, and it is the accursed Zionists who caused them to hate us…