Why can't the people of Palestine and Israel unite and just form one country regardless of religion, ethnicity etc?

Hello Jam,

The Palestinians seek to mislead the world that they seek a two-state solution but rather they have only ever sought a one-state solution, whereby Israel would be destroyed and Jewish Israelis ethnically-cleansed or murdered.

This is shown by the Palestinian Education System which teaches that Israel does not exist (aka the Palestinian claim to ALL the land) and hatred against Jews, and also by the "Palestinian National Charter" which seeks the expulsion of all current Jewish people from Israel (see the source which I have put into the “Sources” area of this answer).

Indeed the Palestinians have expelled any Jewish population from the areas the Palestinians control and then falsely claimed "Apartheid" against Israel.

The Jewish People are entitled to have Re-established their state within their ancestral homeland:

The last "indigenous" state (meaning run by the natives rather than by a foreign power) that comprised the area now called Israel and also referred to as “Palestine”, before the RE-establishment of Israel, was the Jewish Hasmonean Kingdom of Judea with its capital at Jerusalem (now referred to as “East Jerusalem” also “the Old City”).

Contributor "The Oracle of Omigod" wrote that the [(Jewish) Judeans] "were taken as slaves from the area by the Romans".

My response:
Just to be clear: Although many Jews were exiled from their ancestral homeland of Israel, not all were exiled as shown below:

The Jewish People have had unbroken presence in their ancestral homeland of Israel since Biblical times - See the "Demographic history of [Israel] Palestine":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographic_history_of_Palestine

The Jewish People have had an unbroken presence in their ancestral homeland of Israel since Biblical times, and also previous sovereign states in the land of which just one example is the Jewish Hasmonean Kingdom of Judea (including the West Bank) with its capital of Jerusalem, and independent as at 110 BCE / 753 BH–752 BH:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hasmonean_dynasty

The “Palestinians” may come from those who later invaded and occupied the Jewish land of Judea / Israel, but it is also unclear at what point the “Palestinians” arrived there, since they were opposed to being called a "People" until the 1960’s.

The Palestinians also take their name from the name “Palæstina” imposed by the Roman occupiers on the Jewish land of Judea / Israel.

There has never been a sovereign state of “Palestine”. Following the Ottoman Turkish defeat in the First World War, the League of Nations in 1923 authorized a British Mandate resurrecting the name "Palestine" from Roman occupation, to be an administrative region; NOT a sovereign state, an area which included what later would be today’s:
Jordan, Israel, and the Palestinian Territories.


The reader may also consider the following:

The Palestinians lived in Jordan, where 1970 to 1971, they tried to take over the country by force, and were thrown out:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_September_in_Jordan

In 1975 the Palestinians were living in Lebanon where they may have significantly contributed to the start of the Lebanese civil war and certainly took a significant part in it, and were thrown out:
See pages 36 to 37, of “Palestinian Power in Lebanon: The Development of Palestinian Militancy and its Role in the Outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War” / Christine E. Ganley:
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=8&ved=0ahUKEwjlwcuK__zMAhUMvY8KHfcmA-MQFghRMAc&url=http%3A%2F%2Fdigitalrepository.trincoll.edu%2Fcgi%2Fviewcontent.cgi%3Farticle%3D1158%26context%3Dtheses&usg=AFQjCNFCpMdMqENJckoRMTKNDoLhD2DojA&bvm=bv.123325700,d.c2I

The essential Arab racist opposition to the re-establishment of the Jewish homeland (as the State of Israel), is clear.

Consider if there would be such a dispute, were Israel Muslim rather than Jewish.

Israel is the only Jewish homeland in a region dominated by Islam.

Palestinian ethnic-hatred of Jewish people has not changed since the Palestinian support of the Nazis in the second world war. Due to ethnic-hatred of Jewish people and also territorial ambitions, the Palestinian education system in the Palestinian Territories practices mind-abuse, teaching:
> Hatred of Jewish people,
> a false victim-mentality,
> that Israel does not exist (aka the Palestinian claim over ALL the land);
> and similar to the propaganda of Nazi Germany, that the Jew is the (fake) cause of all Palestinian alleged issues:
https://www.quora.com/What-are-some-examples-of-anti-Israel-or-anti-peace-attitude-in-the-Palestinian-educational-system

The Palestinian Education Authority in the Palestinian Territories teaches Holocaust-Denial and admiration of the Nazis:
http://palwatch.org/main.aspx?fi=655

The “Palestinian National Charter” seeks the expulsion of all Jews from the Jewish People’s ancestral homeland of Israel (see the source which I have put into the “Sources” area of this answer).
(Please see the source which I have put into the “Sources” area of this answer.)


While there is no evidence that Israel targets civilians, the Palestinians are addicted to ethnic-hatred of Jews, and due also to territorial ambitions, seek to ethnically-cleanse the Jewish People from the Jewish People's ancestral homeland of Israel, targeting Israeli Jewish civilians as policy including children.
The Palestinians cynically term their anti-Jewish hate-war:
“uprising”, “defence”, “desperation”, “struggle”, “resistance”:

Palestinians get paid to murder Israeli Jewish civilians, including children (examples of which see further down):
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3510827/Revealed-UK-aid-funds-TERRORISTS-budget-cuts-12bn-taxes-splurged-foreign-hand-outs-militants-killers-Palestinian-palaces-jobs-don-t-exist.html

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"In the Amended Palestinian Prisoners Law 19 of 2013, the payments were actually enhanced for a terrorist who commits a violent act and is jailed.":
(Please see the source which I have put into the “Sources” area of this answer.)

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Example results of the Palestinian war of ethnic-hatred against Israeli Jewish civilians including children:

Israeli Jewish child Hallel Yaffa Ariel murdered for her ethnicity by a Palestinian terrorist:
“Israeli girl, 13, fatally stabbed in her bedroom in West Bank” [June 30, 2016],
The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/30/israeli-girl-13-stabbed-bedroom-west-bank-kiryat-arba

Three Israeli Teenagers:
Eyal Yifrach 19,
Gilad Shaar 16,
Naftali Frankel 16,
murdered while hitchhiking back from their religious schools on the West Bank:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/30/bodies-missing-israeli-teenagers-found-west-bank

Palestinians celebrate terrorist attack on Israeli Jewish civilians:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36486918


I hope this helps.

Robert.

First, the Palestinians will not be happy until all Jews are killed.

Second, what you are syaing is a pipe-dream. Israel is not going to give up its land and they shouldn't. You want to give up your home to me so I can make a homeless shelter out of it???

DO IT NOW or the UN will pass a resolution to insult you across the world. Ridiculous???

Too much conservatism

tribalism

Long story short - the Palestinians think the Jews took their land from them when the US ended World War Two and took the Jews from Europe to Israel. The Israelis however, were taken as slaves from the area by the Romans so they have claim to the property. The Palestinians would be happy if their child died if he or she could kill a few Jews in the process. That kind of hatred cannot be overcome.

because we're not living in an ideal world.

That would require the Palestinian people to convert to Judaism. Israel is a jewish only country.

This is currently impossible because of the attitude of Islam toward the Jews (and other religions). One hopes that eventually such an arrangement would be possible.