For Arab Palestinians, the struggle against the State of Israel is the latest of many such fights to oust occupiers. The counter-argument for what the Jewish Virtual Library describes as “pre-State Israel”, is that the Jewish people have maintained links to their historic homeland for 3700 years. World War I ended four centuries of Turkish rule over Palestine. In 1916, a secret Anglo-French pact agreed on Arab independence – excluding Palestine, which was instead to be ruled by an international administration. In 1917, British foreign secretary Arthur Balfour gave an assurance to the Zionist Federation via Lord Rothschild that “a...