What is the story of the Palestinians? At the end of the 19th century the Holy Land was thinly populated with a population of no more than 600 000. The Palestinian nationalist movement together with their Arab allies in the region effectively forced the British to all but shut the gates to Jewish immigration to British Palestine in 1939 and thus sealed the fate of European Jewry and since no escape route was left for the Jews, Hitler decided in favor of extermination. Zionist leaders obviously did neither forget nor forgive the Palestinian movement for this stab in the back at the most critical hour for the Jewish people. There could have been a one-state solution in a bilingual state with a Jewish majority and no Holocaust in Europe. Subsequently the Palestinian and other Arab leaders opted in 1947 for a war of extermination and so the Jewish forces had no choice but to make sure that Palestinian villages fighting on the side of the genocidal enemy left the country, otherwise the Jews would have been subjected to a Second Holocaust. Ever since the Palestinians have been fighting to dispossess and exterminate the Jews under the nominal hypocritical yet never adhered to banners of "justice" and "human rights". According to Palestinian nationalism, the Palestinians are the victims despite not exactly hiding their own malign agenda and refusing to learn from their historical mistakes, including the genocidal war of 1947.
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