The Arab revival and Zionism—two separate movements…

The Arab revival and Zionism—two separate movements that are to have continuing effects for all of the Near and Middle East—had developed in the last two decades of the nineteenth century.

Both movements aim at uniting their peoples in a national homeland.

They are to converge and confront each other in Palestine where, it is initially thought by some, they can each achieve their aspirations in an atmosphere of mutual accommodation.

The two movements will, in fact, prove incompatible.