This essay therefore seeks to refute such scholarship and develop a multi-layered explanation of the factors driving the conflict. I will be focusing, principally, on the following points: 1) the Zionist movement and Jewish immigration into historic Palestine; 2) the facilitation of such immigration, through sponsorship of the Zionist cause, by a colonial power (Britain); 3) how the Zionist movement and colonial facilitation overlapped to action Zionist objectives and create hostility between th...