At the start of the 20th century the Jewish population of Palestine was very small......less than 10 percent of the total population.
They had lived in peace alongside their Palestinian christian and muslim neighbours for hundreds of years.
The advocates of zionism in the late 19th century and such events as the Balfour Declaration poisoned this relationship and set the course for the eventual expulsion of the Palestinians from their homes,farms ,villages,towns and cities....a situation they have never accepted. Still they are being bombed,harassed,oppressed and imprisoned for the crime of wanting to get out from under the zionist yoke.
Israel has been backed financially and militarily by the US and the major western poers.It has one of the most powerful armies in the world.
The Palestinians have been pounded and pulverised in the West Bank and in Gaza and dozens of their elected leaders are now in prison....but still they rise.
HUGO