Of all the somber ironies of history none throws a more sinister light on human nature than the fact that the new-style nationalist Jews, on the morrow of the most appalling... persecution that their race had endured, should at once proceed to demonstrate, at the expense of the Palestinian Arabs...the crime of which they themselves had been the victims...to persecute, in their turn, a people weaker than they were.
- Arnold Joseph Toynbee. "A Study of History." Page 177, Oxford U Press, New York 1957
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