The Palestinians were Xenophobic, anti immigration racists.

The Jews just kept coming to the Holy Land and the Arabs were all bent out of shape about it. So they started attacking the Jews. In other words the Palestinians were anti immigration. Why shouldn't the Jews of Europe have as much right to immigrate to Palestine as the Mexicans do to the US? If the leftists belive that in the US borders are to be ignored, then they have to believe that borders do not miraculously become valid merely because they cross Middle Eastern lands.

The Jews in Palestine were a "minority" and the Arabs did not want foreign Jews to settle in Palestine and to eventually outnumber the Arabs and change their culture. They were predjudiced, pure and simple. The Zionist movement is just like the Mexican "Atzlan" movement. I would argue that the suffering experienced by the Jews far outweighs the suffering currently experienced by Mexicans. No one is threatening the Mexicans with genocide.

Just think what would have happened had the Palestinians welcomed the Jewish settlers instead of attacking them. It's sad to think that in rejecting the Jews, Palestinians sowed the seeds for decades of death, destruction and misery. Yes, the Palestinans might have become a minority in their own land, but this might have been to their benefit. Having a large population of educated people flooding into your country is preferable to having an influx of the uneducated. The Jews are a tolerant bunch and the Arabs would not have had to worry about religious persecution.