Mystic, Arabs have been killing Arabs for a long time ...that's "business as usual" for them. When the West or Israel is involved ..it's a different story. Much like the Soviet bloc united a bunch of people who were more than happy to kill each other (which we see after the fall of the Soviets) ..the "kurfir" (spl) transends all "local" desputes and provides a common enemy. Israeli Arabs (Muslims) are routinely killed in suicide bombings in Israel (btw- for those who don't know, there ARE Arab Israelis AND Christian Palestinians). Again this is propaganda for the masses and has nothing to do with the roots of the conflict.
The Israelis want all the land - period. The land isn't really all that important to anyone. The "Palestinians" never existed before the official creation of "The State of Israel". They are the same people that live in Jordan and the other surrounding "Arab" nations. They speak the same language and share most of the same DNA. The Arab populations in this part of the world are very migratory. They go where the work is. That is, I think that almost ALL of the "Palestinians" would be more than willing to migrate to Jordan, Lebanon, Syria, or elsewhere ..but they can't because those "Muslim-Arab" nations have closed their borders to them. This is because they WANT this conflict to continue.
The only real "spiritual" item is Jerusalem which happens to be "a most holy site" for both sides.
These terrorists are thugs, and I wish them the most "just" death..but don't think that Israel has been a "good neighbor" in any way shape or form. They've annexed land that isn't theirs and continued to do it for about 40 years. They expelled resident Arabs from their homes and just moved them out ..took their land/homes. This wasn't necessarily JUST to kick out "troublesome Arabs". The demographics of Israel was under pressure. While Jews tended to have a more "industrialized" bithrate (2-3 children per family) ...resident Arabs popagated like bunnies. This meant that "The Jewish State" ...would not be so "Jewish" if this wasn't stopped (democracy and prosparity have their liabilities)...hence "excess Arabs" were routinely expelled. This also fuels the favored immigration of foreign born Jews into Israel from the former Soviet bloc.
I'm pretty sure that this whole thing was some "calculated" cost. That is, Israeli hardliners figured if they just hacked up "Palestinian" land a little at a time ...forcing them into smaller and smaller areas ..eventually having "nothing" to deal with. Who would stop them? They already had military superiority to any surrounding neighbors proved several times in actual combat ..and had the support of the only remaining superpower.
Palestinians derive 60% of their income from working in Israel. If you spend money in Palestine, the three currencies in use are Israeli, US $, and Jordanian. When you step back a few paces and view this econimically and "practicallY" this takes on more of an appearance of a civil war. These two people are "married" to each other ..but are estraged.
...and the refugee camps are beginning to look more like the Warsaw ghetto all the time.