The Palestinians brought a lot of the troubles on their own heads because they were led by cynical, self-serving leaders who had their own interests chiefly in mind, not those of their people.

In defence of the Palestinians, Allen, it should be pointed out that in some very important cases, their leaders were selected and put into power for them and not by them. Perhaps the most troublesome of these was installed in power by an Englishman who was also Jewish, against the wishes of the majority of Palestinians.