It actually is rather simple. Despite the thousand year history of pogroms against Jews in Palestine, and the fact the Muslims came there in the first place in imperial expansion, Jews were returning to the land long before Zionism was coined. And long before Zionism, that presence was met with hostility and resistance. Hebron, Safed, Tiberious- pogroms were so frequent it was basically a sport. And for Jews in Palestine, seen as unclean by their Muslim neighbours, and with restrictions on owning horses, building a house taller than a Muslim, giving evidence in court or defending themselves- it became clear Jews required self-determination in Palestine even before Zionism.

The fact is that Jewish pleas for help from local Sheikhs to stop random murders or Palestinian horseman deliberately riding over their fields- were all ignored. And the Sheikhs' reply that it was Muslim Waqf land and Jews have no right to it- is a fundamental part of the problem.

So what would I have done as a Palestinian? I would have welcomed Jews as brothers and built a society together. Even with Zionism, that was the goal as set out in Balfour and San Remo. And I wouldn't be talking about 50% of the land going to another as that is just nonsense and totally dishonest.

Firstly, 78% of the land was carved off to make Jordan. A place that doesn't allow Jews to be citizens even in its constitution. Then of the remainder, 20% of Israel's population is Palestinian, in all stratas of society.

The Palestinian Mayor of Jerusalem wanted to work with the Zionists to build a state, despite a decade already of Palestinian riots against Jews. But then the British, playing spoiler, released Al-Husseini from prison and any possibility of the two sides getting along in one state died then and then.

What would I have done as a Palestinian? I would have accepted the Peel Commission report splitting the land, the most generous offer ever- allowing Palestinians who have never had self-determination to have their own state in the 1930s. Or I would have accepted the UN partition plan and had an independent state in 1947. Or I would have accepted the offer by Israel to hand back Gaza and the West Bank after 1967 in exchange for peace and recognition.

Or I would have accepted any of the proposals post Oslo that gave Palestinians 95-98% of the land their leaders had asked for.

Or I would done everything in my power to have Gaza flourish after Israeli withdrawal in 2005- when there was no blockade and thousands of Gazans came to Israel each day to work etc. I would certainly have resisted anyone trying to launch 10,000 rockets at Israel in 2 years, which resulted in the eventual blockade- an entirely self-inflicted situation by Hamas against the Palestinian people. Yes I would be radicalised and resist them and there would no Gaza conflict now. For over 100 years, us Jews have offered either for us and Palestinians to work side by side in one country, or for Palestinains to have their own country alongside Israel. Every time Palestinians say no, the deal does not get better for them. Fortunately, millions of Palestinians do say yes and live in Israel as citizens of that country. The rest seem to be under leaders who are on a path to nowhere.