I don't think religion is always the problem. Your country USA is pretty religious and easily the wealthiest in the whole world at the same time. If Israel will continue exporting science, medicine, technology and having good relationship with civilized countries it will be just fine. I don't believe Muslim Arabs would take such a good care of this beautiful peace of land like Jews do. It's the only developed country in the Middle East, Iran would be another one without a revolution. In Israel women can drive a car and study. Gays can breathe freely as well. Sounds pretty cool and modern to me. Even Arab women have more rights in Israel than they would have in Palestine or any other Muslim country.
I wonder why Arabs keep crying about "losing part of their land" to Brits and later Jews. They have conquered so much of land themselves and are really proud of it, but suddenly when they lose something it becomes somehow unfair...
They claim that "Russian Jews" stole their land, but Israel was never clearly owned by any nation. Israel was no more Arab than it was Egyptian, Assyrian, Babylonian, Persian or Roman. All of those empires went down sooner or later, but Israel remained. I think it's a pretty good proof that you can't really own Israel. Even Arabs couldn't keep it despite changing it's face for a long time since Christians came for a while, before the rise and eventually collapse of the Ottoman Empire. Finally Brits took it, slicing it together with the United Nation between Jews and Palestinians. That's how the story ends...
Who had the longest reign? Arabs? European Christians? Mamluks? Turks? Jews? Jewish reign was pretty long, United Israel itself existed between 1050 and 500 BCE.
Who changed Israel's face the most? Probably Arabs and Jews (Jewish King Herod built a lot of cool stuff), since the whole point is that connection to promised land and Abraham.
From the religious and historical point of view it is obvious they were Jacob's descendants and their tribes who stayed there and later established Jewish Kingdom, while the sons of Ishmael and Esau stayed around.
Both Arabs and Jews believe in this, but Arabs just can't accept someone else having such a cool place to live.
There are 2 choises for Palestinian and Arab leaders:
1. Accept the fact it is a 2 state land now.
2. Keep staying bitter and dwell in defeat, terrorizing both Israeli and Palestinian citizen.
No matter what they choose Israel will be always Jewish as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United..._for_Palestine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Independence_Day_(Israel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish...e_in_Palestine
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oslo_Accords
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