This discussion has again descended into the neighbour taking your home analogy. Since it has ended the same place where the last thread ended, maybe what is needed is a perspective.
In the creation of Israel in 1948, it involved the depopulation of 1325 Palestinian towns, 531 of these were flattened to the ground. Of the 1.4 million inhabitants in these 1325 towns, around 900,000 Palestinians were driven out while 500,000 stayed within the newly created state. Those who stayed gradually lost their homes and driven out from their then increasingly occupied lands which involved 27000 houses being demolished in the occupied territories. These were to house those who are mass migrating from Russia, Poland, Czech, Morocco, US, and many other parts of the world.
Gaza currently has 1.9 million inhabitants, of which 1.3 million were from those driven out From these 1325 towns and their descendants. Gaza is recognised as one of the most overcrowded areas in the world and is expected that once it reaches 2.1 million in a few years time it will be unliveable, without even taking into consideration the lack of clean water (95% of water is not clean), no power for many of its health centre and hospitals, 85% of its food coming from smuggling tunnels, and limited opportunities for employment and home construction. 94% of home construction proposals are rejected despite being sent building materials leaving many having no home of their own.
Prior to 1947-1948 during the creation of Israel, individuals indigenous to the region, of Judaism Christian and Muslim backgrounds lived in harmony together with equal status. There are conflicts among familial houses and tribes and Islamic schools of thoughts but monotheists religions were relatively peaceful. Hamas (c.1987), Fatah (c.1956), PLO (c.1964) or any other agents of resistance did not exist then (before 1948) as there was no purpose for their existence. All three main religions coexisted together with their followers oblivious to any organised conflict.
Winding the clock further back, the long history of Jewish-Muslim relation is one that has more ups than downs.
The constitution of Medina ensured that Jews are protected and have equal rights under Islamic political rule. Both religion fought battles together and in certain cases a high ranking officer of each religion was chief advisor to the army of another. The breaking of the Medina constitution by treason marked the first wide scale conflict between both religions but consequent history has shown that Jews were protected under Islamic rule dependent on the leader. During instances when mass forced conversion of Jews to Islam occurred, these were overturned by competing Muslim leaders who released edicts for Jews to be able to freely practice their own religion. There were isolated instances of persecutions such as the Fez, Granada and Safed attacks on Jews but the numbers of attacks pale in comparison compared to the dozens of atrocities inflicted by others, such as early Russia. The Safed attack was also overturned by a Muslim leader who released an edict to leave the Jewish tribes and their possessions free from harm. Generally the relationship between both were of brotherly camaraderie. 1948 is considered to be the time when this relationship was drastically severed and it hasn't shown any reprieve since,
If Greater Manchester is one day assigned to become the new land for a population of migrants, and Mancunians driven out from our flattened towns without compensation, leaving us to seek refuge in other counties with only the clothes on our back, we might gain some perspective as to why these Palestinians protest.
