Ze'ev Jabotinsky, the leader of the Revisionist Zionists, thought the Arabs were completely irrelevant to the question of Zionism except as enemies. In his view, the conflict with the Arabs was natural and inevitable and could not be solved until the Zionists could face the Arabs with an "iron wall" of Jewish power.Simha Flapan, Zionism and the Palestinians, 1979, , p. 113 Nevertheless, Jabotinsky supported equal rights for Arabs living in the Jewish state.
