I think the Israel vs. Palestine struggle went long enough to ask the question: what would be the solution?
The story in short:
- Palestine was part of the Ottoman Empire, with nominal amount of Jews who always lived there.
- In the 19th century the Zionist movement emerged which aimed to establish a country for the Jews in Palestine. For all their effort, it just did not play out.
- In 1917 Balfour, foreign minister/secretary of the UK sent a mail to one of the Rothschilds, a leading figure of the Bri'ish Jewry at that time, stating the UK govt. supports a Jewish homeland there. He also stated that the rights of the locals should be preserved/guaranteed.
- With the end of WWI the Ottoman Empire was dismantled, and the "Bri'ish Mandate" was set up, Palestine got under temporary Bri'ish rule, the clock was set to 1948 to expire.
- This was in 1923 I think, but since then the Jews started to move in en masse.
- By 1948 the Jews established armed groups, which they used to kick out the Palestinians from their homes and properties and towns right after the Brits left, and established Israel, and they imagined a border for it.
- Since then more and more Jews moved in, and more and more Palestinians were kicked out, put into camps both within Israel and in the neighbouring lands.
- Couple of regulations were issued or suggested, by UN, the latest I think the Oslo accord in 1993, none enforced or mattered.
So, what could be a solution, and make everyone live in peace?
Nothing.
Let's say the first UN regulation were enforced which divided Palestine into a Jewish and Palestinian state about 50%-50%. Both sides would be at the throat of the other, Jews would demand more (for their rapidly growing population from immigration, and anyway), and the Palestinians would snarl the same since their own land were taken from them (and their population is also growing rapidly due to abundant births).
So it really seems so that it would be peace if one side wouldn't exist. Or wouldn't.
Without Jews maybe Palestine itself on the inside would be more or less peaceful, but they would fall into the Middle East dividedness, for example along the Sunni-Shiia rupture and the killing would go on.
Then what if only the Jews remain? They would push for Greater Israel, "from the Nile to the Euphrates". Maybe not as a state policy, but Jewish settlers, radicals, zealots would move further and further and the Jewish state could only but protect her citizens (like how they colonize the West Bank). There would be wars with neighbouring countries, again falling into the Middle Eastern turbulence.
Picrel I picked because it was nice and colorful, will suit as illustration.