One Palestine of Jews and Muslims

Imagine the land, from the coasts of the Mediterranean to the Jordan River, peaceful. It is like a normal country, no walls, no barriers, no checkpoints, no military in the streets. Orthodox Jews and Muslim Shaikhs walk in the same street, to the same holy site. They converse, laugh and then part, the shaikh to the mosque and the Jew to the Wailing Wall.

Why could this not be a reality. Why did the Israelis have to establish their own state. They would have been welcome to live in Palestine. Look at Lebanon now, there's an almost even percentage of Christians and Muslims, and they are united under one name, Lebanese.

The Jewish argument would be, because their holy book promised the land "to the sons of Abraham". We don't know if that's true or not, because we cannot have a conflict involving two different religions and base the solution on a one sided resolution. If that was true though, they could live in the holy land. But I don't think any religious book would justify the expulsion and suffering of millions of Palestinians. When the state of Israel was established, it was the twentieth century. It wasn't like a thousand years back when there were crusades and religious leaders conquered half the world. I think it was very extreme of how they came in and established their state on stolen Palestinian land.

Anyway, my dream is to see a unified Palestine, 50% Israelis, 50% Palestinians. There has to be religious tolerance in that region, specifically that region, since it is the holy land. Three different religions claim it, there used to be Israeli kingdoms, Palestinian kingdoms, Christian kingdoms, the three Abrahamic religions had a claim.

If Israel will remain in this path, its future will not be ensured in any way. The Palestinians can come back and conquer the land, (just like the Israelis had done), and then they will show the Israelis how their hellish lives were. Israel is going nowhere towards peace, but rather to war. Wars have sparked in the past, and will remain to take place because peace has to be built on justice, it has be built between people, not governments; it is not merely a piece of paper.