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Most Zionist leaders wanted to win the Arabs' friendship, and following the lead of Ber Borochov, a Russian Marxist who had taught that the Arabs' lack of an economically distinct culture would lead them to accept Jewish settlement easily, many of them thought it wouldn't be too difficult. Nearly all of them found it hard to realize that there were two separate nations in Palestine, that they had divergent concerns and nationalisms, and that economic separatism, though it kept one nation from directly exploiting the other, was making them more separate all the time...
...endured, passionate Zionists could not take seriously the half-million Palestinian Arabs who were viewed merely as a harassment in Eden. Arab attacks, which began as early as 1886, were customarily described as "banditry." The Arabs were devoid of "an economic and cultural character of their own," pronounced Ber Borochov, the Marxist Zionist. Israel, Elon concludes, is still paying the enormous price for assuming that Arabs had no dream of their own. "The punishment of the Arabs for the sins of Europe," Elon argues, will "burden the conscience of Israelis for a long time to come...
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