Thomas Friedman, foreign affairs columnist for the New York Times, in the 1995 edition of his book ‘From Beirut to Jerusalem, wrote the following:
“The conflict between Jews and Palestinian Arabs began in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, when Jews from around the world began flocking back to their ancient biblical homeland in Palestine, driven by a modern Jewish nationalist ideology known as Zionism. The Zionists called for the ingathering of the Jews from around the world in Palestine and the creation there of a modern Jewish nation-state that would put the Jews on a par with all the other nations of the world. Most of the early Zionists either ignore the presence of the Arabs already living in Palestine or assumed they could either be bought off or would eventually submit to Jewish domination.”
“The conflict between Jews and Palestinian Arabs began in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, when Jews from around the world began flocking back to their ancient biblical homeland in Palestine, driven by a modern Jewish nationalist ideology known as Zionism. The Zionists called for the ingathering of the Jews from around the world in Palestine and the creation there of a modern Jewish nation-state that would put the Jews on a par with all the other nations of the world. Most of the early Zionists either ignore the presence of the Arabs already living in Palestine or assumed they could either be bought off or would eventually submit to Jewish domination.”
