A segment published in the Filastin newspaper in 1913, following the Zarnuqa incident, a violent clash between Zionist settlers and Palestinian peasants in Ottoman Palestine. The paper noted how settlers would provoke Palestinian peasants and then play the victims, like a wolf in sheep's clothing.

The Nakba started long before 1948. These maniacs were already constructing dozens of settlements. They were already purchasing tens of thousands of acres of land. They constantly evaded Ottoman regulations through various means. The Ottomans allowed them to gain more and more influence in the region. Already, the predecessor to the Haganah, the Hashomer, was established in 1909. At the time, the Palestinians were ignorant and didn't do much since the Ottomans, being imperialist scumbags like any other empire, actively suppressed Arab nationalism. Falastin, the first Palestinian newspaper to criticize Zionism, started doing so in 1911, but faced censorship by the Ottomans. That said, tensions were already slowly, but surely rising. Small skirmishes were breaking out.

In 1910–1911 Arabs in the north tried to resist the Zionist purchase of and settlement in a large tract of land in the Jezreel Valley. Ironically, the opposition focused on the tenant farmer village of Fula, built on and around the ruins of La Fève, a Crusader fortress Saladin had conquered in 1187. Henceforward, Arab spokesmen were regularly to identify the Zionists as the "new Crusaders." Arab notables sent off a stream of appeals to Istanbul, shots were traded, and an Arab and a settlement guard were killed. But nothing availed.

The authorities upheld the purchase, Fula was evacuated, and within months, a Jewish settlement, Merhavia, took root on the site.

God, I hate the Ottomans. They just had to deport the pro-Ottoman Yishuv rather than sending them to die in battle against the Entente. David Ben-Gurion and Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, both young men at the time, had initially bet on the Ottomans and called on Jewish settlers in Palestine to join them in battle. In November 1914, they proposed to the Ottoman commander in Jerusalem that an all-Jewish battalion be raised to fight with the Ottoman Army. The proposal was approved and training started. The project was cancelled by Djemal Pasha, who expelled them and thousands of other Zionists from the region. Even then, Ben-Gurion still recruited for the Ottomans. He eventually gave up and joined Jabotinsky's and Trumpeldor's Jewish Legion, which was very similar to what he had in mind.

The difference is that the Jewish Legion was betting on the British.

Only 91 out of the 5,000 Zionists in the Jewish Legion died in the war. Even if David Ben-Gurion had been one of them, someone else would've just taken his place.