Copiague, L.I.: Assuming he ever knew, Voicer Paul Gross forgets that Zionism began as a far-left, liberal and largely secular movement that labored for the creation of a Jewish homeland in what was then Ottoman Palestine. In the early 20th century, left-wing, secular collectivists like Moshe Dayan and Golda Meir, not to mention David Ben-Gurion, proposed a “co-development” ideology imagining kibbutzim and Arab villages sharing the land and the government with its capital in Tel Aviv.