I am 100% pro Israel , and Hamas has to be destroyed . But that will leave a vacuum , because it will not solve the Palestinian conflict.
Almost all historians agree up to 1914 there was little if any conflict between Jews and Palestinians . For 400 years the Ottoman Empire controlled
Palestine . After WW1 , the Palestinians expected independence , because they had fought against the Germans and the Turks . But in 1917 Great Britain gained control of the area and the British Foreign Minister issued the Balfour Declaration of 1917 . It was to create a national home for the Jewish people . However it stated " all civil and religious rights of non Jewish people would be upheld" . At that time Palestine was 90% Arab .
In 1947 after WW2 Palestine was divided , 57 % of the land would be Jewish and 43%of the land would be Palestinian , even though 65% of the population was Palestinian and Jewish land ownership was 7%.(At no time, was any side promised, by anyone , any Holy site because they had always been shared )
The Arab league stated that was illegal . In 1948 the Jewish settlers declared the creation of The State of Israel, without defining its borders ! Israel claimed 78%
of the land and Palestinians got 22% . In 1967 the Israeli Military created a surprise attack on its Arab neighbors . The Arabs claim they had not planned
anything on Israel . Be that as it may , the Israelis took the west bank where 3.7 million Palestinians lived . Now lets recall here, they did not take land from Jordan or any other nation ,but they took the property of the Palestinians .
The U.N. in 1967 in Resolution 242 called for the withdrawal of Israel from that land . The only solution can be what 76% of Israelis and Palestinians agree on "The Two State Solution ". With Palestinians getting the Gaza strip and the West Bank as an independent territory .
20% of Israeli citizens are Muslim or Christian . Israels budget is 45 billion with an unemployment rate of 10% . Palestinians are Christians, Muslim and Athiest ,and have a budget of 1.2 billion with an unemployment rate of 50%. . After Hamas, solve this conflict and the World will be safer . OK , don't shoot the messenger !!!!!