Also not to be overlooked are on-the-record statements including one in 1938 from the man considered Israel's "founding father," David Ben-Gurion:
"Let us not ignore the truth among ourselves. Politically we are the aggressors and they defend themselves. The country is (the Palestinian's), because they inhabit it, whereas we want to come here and settle down, and in their view we want to take away from them their country."
Roughly ten years later, Ben-Gurion was able to acknowledge that his dream of "settling down" on lands formerly occupied by Palestinians had been largely fulfilled and would remain so:
"We must do everything to ensure they (Palestinians) never do return. The old will die and the young will forget."
Whatever awareness exists of this historical background seems to have done little to correct a curious inversion of logic that has led many Israelis and their supporters to the potentially wayward conclusion that it is both audacious in terms of rationale and ludicrous from a military standpoint for the Palestinians to engage in an armed reclamation struggle. Unfortunately for the Palestinians, if there is an area in which they may have shown audacity, it would reside in the false belief that the world's sense of what is just and fair would be evident by the kind of unconditional support of their cause it has shown for that of the Israelis'.
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