land".This maxim was not only conceived in ignorance, but also reflected the general arrogance towards non-European peoples that prevailed in Europe at that time.
15 Palestine was not an empty land - not at the end of the 19th century nor at any other period. At that time, there were half a million people living in Palestine, 90% of them Arabs.This population objected, of course, to the incursion of foreign settlers into their land.
16 The Arab National Movement emerged almost simultaneously with the Zionist Movement, initially to fight the Ottoman Empire and later the colonial regimes built on its ruins at the end of World War I. A separate Arab-Palestinian national movement developed in the country after the British created a separate State called "Palestine", and in the course of the struggle against Zionist infiltration.
"The War of the Traumas": the Holocaust
17 Since the end of World War I, there has been an ongoing struggle between two national movements, the Jewish-Zionist and the Palestin-