heart of the Muslim civilization

Dude what? Did they move Mecca to Jerusalem while I wasn't looking?

And if we're talking pre 48 era, we're gonna be here all day, since in that era neither Israel nor Palestinians had any proper leadership and most of the actions were performed by nationals on both sides. Yeah Zionism played a heavy part in creating that conflict, but it also did basically nothing wrong on its own. All zionism is is jewish migration towards Israel (holiest land for jews). And they didn't plan on fighting for it, they bought lands legally, started their own communities and lived peacefully up until the ottommens and then later the british stopped them from migrating out of fear of arab muslim resistance to jews coming (again, not kicking anyone out). Only facing resistance did jews start to fight, and they fought hard. Just proves how holy and important that land was for jews. So don't start displaying the natives of that time as completely innocent. Imaging today France started blocking immigration because the migrating population isn't french enough for them.