The Jewish-Palestinian conflict has been going on for more than a century. Some call it the 'Jewish-Arab conflict', others call it the 'Israeli-Arab conflict'. One way or another, the basic premise underlying this or that hyphenated wording, is that this conflict is symmetrical, namely, it has two sides.

This book argues that this premise is wrong. This conflict has only one side, the Arab side or rather the Arab-Palestinian side. The bloody conflict, which has been going on for more than a century, stems from one and only one reason - the Palestinians' opposition to all the basic assumptions of Zionism: the very existence of a Jewish people, it's right to self-determination in the land of Israel, and the Jewish right to a nation-state.

This is the root of the conflict and that is why the book is called 'The Palestinian Conflict'. Jews have no conflict of principle with...