"The Israel Lobby in the U.S. is just the tip of an older and far larger iceberg known as 'political Zionism,' an international movement that began in the late 1800s with the goal of creating a Jewish state somewhere in the world. In 1897 this movement, led by a European journalist named Theodor Herzl, coalesced in the First Zionist Congress, held in Basel, Switzerland, which established the World Zionist Organization, representing 117 groups the first year, 900 the next.
While Zionists considered such places as Argentina, Uganda, the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, and Texas, they eventually settled on Palestine for the location of their proposed Jewish State, even though Palestine was already inhabited by a population that was 93-96 percent non-Jewish. The best analysis says the population was 96 percent Muslims and Christians, who owned 99 percent of the land.
After the Zionist Congress, Vienna's rabbis sent two of their number to explore Palestine as a possible Jewish state. These rabbis recognized the obstacle that Palestinians presented to the plan, writing home: 'The bride is beautiful, but she is married to another man.' [Note that this blatantly contradicts the lying Zionist slogan, "A Land without a People for a People without a Land".] Still, Zionists ultimately pushed forward. Numerous Zionist diary entries, letters, and other documents show that they decided to push out these non-Jews -- financially, if possible, violently, if necessary."
The truth is, it ALL began long before 1947, with Zionist terrorists committing the Original Sin of attacking, killing, expelling the indigenous Palestinians.
* Presumably the book's title refers to the then overwhelming, foresightful-of-impending-disaster opposition among high-ranking American government officer holders (President Harry S. Truman, for reasons serving political ambition, being a key exception) to creation of the State of Israel in the hopelessly unprincipled manner proposed by the partition plan of 1947.