...Like any people that were colonized by Europeans, they want their land and homes back. Is that a strange desire?...
They were a rag-tag collection of scattered nomadic tribesmen and marginal townsfolk who had the misfortune to be standing in the way of history, and their intransigence and stupidity in refusing to negotiate a peace involving the sharing of the land, after they were decisively beaten, is the direct cause of their present decrepit state and prospects.
It doesn't matter if the reaction is strange or understandable. What matters is their level of collective intelligence and pragmatism, or a grotesque lack thereof.
...The Palestinians were attacked and ethnically cleansed by better armed and equipped European colonists. That is not unusual...
The Muslim-Arabs drew first blood, and chose to stupidly shoot their wad against the British and the Jews in the 1930s, thereby wasting their armaments and blood before the decisive time (1948-1949) unfolded, and were thereby half-disarmed and fully-disheartened when The Decisive Moment finally arrived. Early and characteristic stupidity.
The Jews of the 1930s and 1940s were also prohibited from acquiring and owning firearms, but, unlike their foolish Muslim-Arab Palestinian counterparts, they got off their asses, and made the necessary connections, and purchased and begged and borrowed and stole arms, until, eventually, they were in a better war-ready position than the Muslims.
This was the result of intelligence and courage and organization skills and vision, as opposed to stupidity and timidity and laziness and lack of foresight.
Nature favors the intelligent and bold, and de-selects the foolish and timid.
...They may be laughable to you, but they are human beings and the only reason they have been treated in the way they have is because they are Christian and Muslim rather than Jewish.
Stop trying to position the Christians alongside the Muslims in this regard, as a cheap trick to glean a little sympathy here and there amongst an audience largely comprised of either Christians or those descended from Christians and dwelling with a historical Christian cultural context. Your divide-and-conquer tactics aren't working, except, perhaps, amongst ultra-Lefists and other simple-minded, emotional, gullible and naive non-thinkers.
The Jews of Israel need the support of the United States and they want the support of the European Union and even Russia over the long haul, so, even if they were inclined to persecute Christians or to interfere with Christians to any appreciable and substantive extent, they would not, because that would piss off Americans and Euros and Russians.
The Jews of Israel are pushing-out those so-called Palestinians who chose to continue resisting them rather than accepting them. They are (and always have been) fine with those who remained in-place and chose to live as Israeli citizens rather than Beyond the Pale.
Those fools (the Muslim-Arab Palestinians who ran like jackrabbits in 1948) had PLENTY of chances to come to terms. Their best chance was to do so prior to the 1967 Six Day War, when the terms they could have obtained would have been the most favorable, but they could have done so at any time, up to and including, quite possibly, Intifada II - at which point, the Window of Opportunity for negotiation had largely closed and at which point the Reconquista probably began in earnest.
When your negotiating partner manifests the savagery and un-trustworthiness and intransigence and outright stupidity that the so-called Palestinians have, time and again and again and again and again and again... at some point, the sane side (the Israelis) are going to throw up their hands and say: "
**** it. We tried. We're done. No more talk."
Which is pretty much what has happened.
The so-called Palestinians have nobody to blame for this stupidity but themselves.
Themselves.
Nature has de-selected them.
It's over.
It's time for the Palestinians to leave.
Time for the UN to step in, and to relocate the Palestinians, to country(ies) willing to take them in.
A few hundred thousand here, a few hundred thousand there - break 'em up - scatter 'em - let their poison and insanity be neutralized and sink into the sand and be relegated to the history books.
If the whole world is so concerned over these fools, let the whole world chip-in on the relocation costs, and in supporting them for a while, until they can get on their feet again.
The Jews stay.
The State of Israel stays.
They win.
Why?
Because they have the muscle and courage to enforce their will.
After some close calls, including one close one for the Jews within Living Memory...
Nature has selected them for survival, after all.
Believe it.