however – and we utter here the bitter and terrible truth – the truth is that our leaders and many of the founders of the yishuv who came from the diaspora in order to lead us, did not comprehend the high value of relations between neighbors at all, this basic and simple rule. perhaps they did not understand, or did not want to pay attention to it, but in doing so, they are guilty of not coping with the problem, which gradually became more and more complicated, till it became the most painful problem of the yishuv. many have already written about it, discussed it and commented on it publicly, that since the day of herzl’s appearance with the idea of the political zionism, the zionist propaganda in all countries and languages described the land where we were going to establish our national home, as a land of desert and desolation, where nobody dwelt, and it was on the basis of this description, in writing and by heart, that it was only a virgin land, that all the zionist methods of the establishment of the yishuv were developed, and they included all but one thing, the attention to those inhabitants who had already been living in this land.