I think it was a valid point.
This is what was promised in the preemptive Israeli declaration of Independence within the terms f the UN partition and what was proposed by the Arab league for a unified Palestine.
The Jews fleeing Europe moved into what was then known as palestine to 'reclaim" their Jewish homeland...
The early Zionist movement only attracted a small number to the region, twice as many came after the serious persecution began, and this lead to the first trouble with the local massive majority of Palestinian Arab population. Their uprising was so harshly put down by the British and Jews that some think this lead to their being easily pushed out ten years later.
And, aside from the fact the Zionists embarked upon a campaign of terrorist bombing to try and force the British out... they got along fairly well with the Muslim population.
The early Zionists had an unarguable goal of seizing all of Biblical Israel.
But their massive historical mistake was in making their nation a JEWISH state.
IF they had kicked out the British and formed a SECULAR state in which the Muslim population had an equal voice, NONE of this shit of the last 50 years would have happened.
See above re the promise of equal rights for all.
Moreover... given that America's One great accomplishment was the realization that church should have NOTHING to do with state, the U.S.'s blind endorsement of Israel's Non-representative government seems contradictory to the values the U.S has traditionally stood for.
When 20 to 30% of your people, of your workforce, have ZERO representation in government... you will never know peace.
When One religion has access to power denied all others... you will never have equality nor true freedom.