ian-Arab, both of which aspire to accomplish their goals ־ which are entirely incompatible within the same territory.This situation remains unchanged to this day.
18 As persecution of the Jews in Europe intensified, and as the countries of the world closed their gates to the Jews attempting to flee the inferno, so the Zionist Movement gained strength. Nazi anti-Semitism turned the Zionist utopia into a realizable modern enterprise by causing a mass - immigration of trained manpower, intellectuals, technology and capital to Palestine. The Holocaust, which took the lives of about six million Jews, gave tremendous moral and political force to the Zionist claim, leading to the establishment of the State of Israel.
19 The Palestinian nation, witnessing the growth of the Jewish population in their land, could not comprehend why they should be expected to pay the price for crimes committed against the Jews by Europeans. They violently objected to further Jewish immigration and to the acquisition of land by the Jews.
20 The struggle between the two nations in the country appeared in the emotional sphere as the "war of the traumas". The Israeli-Hebrew nation carried with them the old trauma of the persecution of the Jews in Europe - massacres, mass expulsions, the Inquisition, pogroms and the Holocaust. They lived with the consciousness of being an eternal victim. The clash with the Arab-Palestinian nation appeared to them as just a continuation of anti-Semitic persecution.
21 TheArab-Palestinian nation carried with them the memories of the long-lasting colonial oppression, with its insults and humiliations, especially on the background of the historical memories from the glorious days of the Caliphs.They, too, lived with the consciousness of being victims, and the Naqba (catastrophe) of 1948 appeared to them as the continuation of the oppression and humiliation by Western colonialists.
22 The complete blindness of each of the two nations to the national existence of the other inevitably led to false and distorted perceptions, that took root deep in their collective consciousness.