The Palestinians, the New York Review of Books, New York 1971.
The case of Palestine, as I see it, is a unique twentieth-century
political dilemma. No parallel problem has been recorded in human
history, for the 'culprit' in this case is the Jewish people, as
embodied in the Zionist movement--a people that has been a traditional
victim in history--whereas the victim is the Palestinian people, which
was not a nation in its homeland, but became one when it sought
shelter outside it as refugees. The Palestinian Arabs, who were merely
Arabs in their country, became Palestinians once they were exiled from
their homeland among their Arab brethren in other Arab lands.--- Full Text
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