55 years later

"And how strange, I thought, that a nation which had suffered so many wrongs in the course of its long and sorrowful diaspora was now, in single-minded pursuit of its own goal, ready to inflict a grievous wrong on another nation - and a nation that was innocent, too, of all that past Jewish suffering.
Such a phenomenon was not, I knew, unknown to history; but it made me very sad, nonetheless, to see it enacted before my eyes."

The Road to Mecca, Muhammad Asad, 1954