Joseph, EY is not only a safe haven (Yoel 3,5) but the land Hashem has given us and which is part of us as Rav Kook says at the beginning of “Orot”.
HaKatan, the massacre in Chevron was caused by the fact that the Jewish leadership depended on the Arab notables and the British police instead of accepting the Hagana’s offer of protection as well as the inaction of the latter two groups. The Mufti Haj Amin al-Husseini ym”s was virulently anti-Jewish and needed no “provocation” beyond our existence. He later offered his services in implementing the Final Solution and recruited a Bosnian Moslem division for the Waffen SS. A pamphlet he distributed included the quote “The Day of Judgement will come, when the Muslims will crush the Jews completely: And when every tree behind which a Jew hides will say: ‘There is a Jew behind me, Kill him!”. Apparently his services were very valuable tothe Nazisas tey paid him a monthly salary that was twice the ANNUAL salary of a German field marshall.