Is religion responsible for the opposition to peace in the Israel-Palestine conflict?

I thought I made it clear that Israel is building settlements on occupied territory. In your world, the Palestinians should just lay down and let the Israelis continue with their land theft, or they are guilty of unacceptable aggression.

But even that is not the point. In your world, the occupied have no right to resistance. They actually do. Your question was a transparent attempt to put both parties in the same light when it comes to who is to blame for the violence. Do you understand now?

Oh, I almost forgot. Do you believe that Israel's breaking of a ceasefire with Hamas indicates the Israeli regime's lack of desire for peace? Or do you think it indicates something else?

these "well meaning gentiles" you speak of decided the Arabs should pay for European crimes.

My definition of peace is when the Israeli regime stops its land theft and abides by International Law.

That wasn't it at all. Israel got created where it did because the Jews are indigenous to the West Bank.

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Are you calling me a solipsist? You are side-stepping my basic premise that the Jews in Israel have had their fill of murderous gentiles for the last two millenia. So, well meaning gentiles have assisted them in becoming a competent nation, able to protect themselves. Not so well meaning gentiles begrudge them the land they are sitting on, partially due to wars meant to annihilate them.

these "murderous gentiles" you speak of are not the Palestinians, who were small land-owning families.

these "well meaning gentiles" you speak of decided the Arabs should pay for European crimes. They had an agenda, which Israel factored into.

should not be asked to share a little of their "sand" as big as New Jersey

it's my opinion that the Zionists were on a mission to get as much land in the region as they possibly could--in total disregard for the indigenous population.

It's clear that you aren't sympathetic to the Palestinian situation. And it's easy for you, as you only open yourself to Jewish suffering, as if it's the only suffering that matters/exists.

"Completely accurate statistics about the number of inhabitants do not presently exist. One must admit that the density of the population does not give the visitor much cause for cheer. In whole stretches throughout the land one constantly comes across large Arab villages, and it is an established fact that the most fertile areas of our country are occupied by Arabs..."
(Protocol of the Second Zionist Congress, Pg. 103)

"When we occupy the land, we shall bring immediate benefits to the state that receives us. We must expropriate gently the private property on the estates assigned to us. We shall try to spirit the penniless population across the border by procuring employment for it in the transit countries, while denying it any employment in our country. The property owners will come over to our side. Both the process of expropriation and the removal of the poor must be carried out discretely and circumspectly … It goes without saying that we shall respectfully tolerate persons of other faiths and protect their property, their honor, and their freedom with the harshest means of coercion. This is another area in which we shall set the entire world a wonderful example … Should there be many such immovable owners in individual areas [who would not sell their property to us], we shall simply leave them there and develop our commerce in the direction of other areas which belong to us."

The Zionists *are* the indigenous population.

Assuming every Zionist is a Jew with origins in Israel,

they still aren't indigenous population. There were people in the region long before Judaism was invented 3500 years ago, unless you mean to tell me all those people became Jews.