Looking back on that class, I realize many of my fellow students who were either Jewish or of Arab descent were probably wondering, without quite being willing to ask out loud, “Are we the good guys here?”
History won’t answer that for you.
But here’s a Paul answer, fwiw: if you’re working for peace, you’re the good guys.
That’s not a question that one can ask of a whole nation. It’s a question every individual person must ask of themselves.