Haredim valued Arab dominance as proof of their own anti-Zionist legitimacy.

Evidence

It may be because his communion with the Arabs was a stark illustration that the Haredim, as opposed to the Zionists, knew and appreciated Arabs as the true possessors of Palestine, and the key to Jews living harmoniously in their Holy Land. The Haredim had no illusions of wresting control of the country for themselves, but instead wished to prove it was they, not the Zionists, who were the appropriate guardians of Jewish interests in their ancestral land from which redemption would come. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 444

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: A genuinely counterintuitive inversion: the Haredim used their appreciation of Arabs — whom they saw as the rightful possessors of Palestine — to trump the Zionists as the ‘true’ guardians of Jewish interests. The whole edifice of Jewish national legitimacy is stood on its head from within the religious camp.
• SEED: Essay angle: how pre-state religious anti-Zionism grounded its critique of Jewish nationalism by embracing Arab sovereignty — a forgotten third position between Zionism and anti-Zionism.