" palestine" which never existed ( And never will )
Palestine was Palestine for over 2,000 years. Since 135 AD.
Palestina en el Imperio Romano
When the Muslims left the Saudi Peninsula and invaded those surrounding countries, they were busy forcing people to convert to Islam and killed many who refused. The descendents of those who were lucky to survive can't even practice their religious beliefs in peace now. Look at what happens to the Copts, Assyrians and Chaldeans even now in this modern world. However, the Boiler Room Gang doesn't care what happens to these people in the Middle East. It is more important for them to demonize Israel, a tiny, tiny piece of land compared to the huge Muslim Middle East and a place where the Arabs have it so much better than in the rest of the Middle East.
Most of us just want justice for the Palestinians. Most of us neutrals, particularly us Christians, are very concerned about the treatment of Christians in Muslim majority societies. This does not prevent us from being concerned with the Christian and Muslim Palestinians.
When Constantine made Christianity the religion of the Empire people were forced to adopt Christianity by force.
Contrary to popular belief the citizens/subjects of the Roman Empire (Byzantine) were not very happy with Roman rule and converted to Islam without needing to be forced.
I realize you probably eschew academic peer reviewed historical works, but this dissertation (or thesis) from Yale is interesting. I've posted excerpts and the link is below if you want to learn something instead of repeating propaganda.
I find this very telling and surprising:
"There were clear fiscal incentives
not to encourage the spread of Islam. As we have seen, Quran itself had laid down that the unbelievers should pay taxes, called jizya, which was originally a generic name for tribute of all sorts. By the period in the late eighth century when the Muslim fiscal system reached its maturity, it had been established that the dhimmis should pay a poll-tax. All landowners were now obliged to pay the kharaj or land tax but the dhimmis suffered under extra fiscal burdens."
Here is another excerpt:
"The nature of the early Muslim conquests in the Middle East made forcible conversion
almost impossible. The Muslim armies were comparatively small, between ten and twenty
thousand are possible estimates for the numbers in the armies which conquered Syria and Iraq, probably fewer in Egypt and Iran. To be sure, more Arab Muslims emigrated from Arabia to settle in the newly conquered areas but even so the Arab Muslims were a small minority, perhaps 10% of the population of Egypt and perhaps 20% of the most densely settled area, Iraq. In these circumstances, forcing unwilling people to convert was out of the question. According to the traditional accounts, much of the Arab conquests was achieved by treaty and we have texts of many of these agreement. Here, for example is the treaty that was made by the Caliph Umar with Sophronius, Patriarch of Jerusalem, probably 638:
“In the name of God, the Merciful, the Compassionate. This is the assurance of safety
(amān) which the servant of God Umar, the Commander of the Faithful, has given to the people of Jerusalem.. He has given them an assurance of safety for themselves, for their property, their churches, their crosses, the sick and healthy of the city and for all the rituals which belong to their religion. Their churches will not be inhabited by Muslims and will not be destroyed. Neither they, nor the land on which they stand, nor their cross, nor their property will be damaged. They will not be forcibly converted. No Jew will live with them in Jerusalem. The people of Jerusalem must pay the poll-tax like the people of other cities and must expel the Byzantines and the robbers. Those of the people of Jerusalem who want to leave with the Byzantines, take their property and................"
http://www.yale.edu/macmillan/rps/kennedy.pdf