The problem with Israel being the one state, sovereign over all of what used to be Palestine, is that the Muslim Arabs would simply out breed them and in time, the Jews would be a minority in Israel. Look at Lebanon. It was supposed to be a majority Christian-Arab country and it was for many years, but when the Muslims finally became the majority Lebanon proceeded to destroy itself. It used to be ‘the Switzerland of the Middle East’. Now look at it.
Yet that is what nations are.
History is pretty clear about that. In fat times, you can have multicultural empires. High trust societies. Lean times, people protect their own and cut out the other.
What makes a group “us” and another “them” changes. Sometimes culture, sometimes religion, sometimes ethnicity.
While I somewhat agree with your take on it, you know the reason for the division and the two separate areas.
The strife was too pronounced to continue to live amongst each other.
They tried to split the two factions hoping they could find peace in their own area.
Strange as it may sound, something like that may be true of Arabs in East Jerusalem, who would prefer having Israeli papers because of the difficulties with checkpoints and such, but I doubt it’s true for the rest of the Palestinians.
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Like doing a poll in Cuba. Though the "result" may have some credibility. If I recall when land swaps were under consideration, Israeli Arabs in lands to be returned to their brethren, they were overwhelmingly opposed to becoming part of "palestine". Similarly I believe a few years ago there was some talk about closing the opportunity for Arabs living in East Jerusalem pre 67, now in Israel, to become Israeli citizens. The talk resulting in a small surge in citizenship applications.