Palestinians

Indeed, the establishment of Israel, that State’s conduct and the response of the Peace Settlement in Eastern Europe at the end of the First World Arab world and the Palestinians, give conflicting accounts of War was based on population exchanges under the auspices of the events, place emphases differently and draw radically divergent League of Nations. [...] Perhaps the greatest paradox is that Zionism, conceived of as a solution to the problems of one of the world's most persecuted minorities by ending Jewish homelessness and landlessness, The starting point of the Palestinian problem resulted in the creation of yet another homeless and landless minority, the Arab Palestinians. [...] Ironically, the creation of a of Israeli governmental behaviour, it cannot be forgotten that the Jewish National Home in the shape of the State of Israel did not political doctrine of Zionism evolved in a historic European assure the long-term future of the new State as Jewish. [...] The very principles invoked by Zionism - self-determination and While the Powers pay lip-service to the need for Middle East sovereignty for peoples, the legitimacy of States, democracy, peace, they have not hesitated to pour arms into the area, escalating equality, non-discrimination, the rights of the individual, and the the risks of further war. [...] The Arab objection was (Peel) Commission of 1937 (established to enquire into the causes not only a refusal to imply legitimacy to the Zionist aspects of the of the rebellion), to admit the incompatibility of its promises to Mandate.