As a Zionist, despite the stormy history of Israel, I am still convinced that the establishment of the Jewish state in a “small notch” – to use Lord Balfour’s phrase – of the vast territories liberated from the Ottoman Empire was an act of absolute, not relative, historic justice…Nevertheless, I appreciate the intensity of the Arab hostility, however ill-motivated it may appear to me, and the reality of the Arab presence on the West Bank and Gaza.