Palestinians should give up their quest for the land of Israel

First of all, the question is inappropriate. Most Palestinians want not to reclaim Israel, but to have a Two State System. The only regional opposition they have in the desire to create a Two State System is Israel. Israel encourages illegal settlements and outposts in the West Bank for the sole purpose of cantonising the region so as to negate the possibility of an independent Palestinian state. These settlements are in direct violation of the Fourth Geneva Convention, and are continuing to this day. President Benjamin Netanyahu said 'I have no intention of building new settlements in the West Bank... But like all the governments there have been until now, I will have to meet the needs of natural growth in the population. I will not be able to choke the settlements'. This seems eerily similar to this argument used by one who could hardly be described as a friend of Israel... http://en.wikipedia.org... The Palestinians ARE the righteous owners of the land anyway. They had inhabited it as a minority before the expusion of the Jews, and after as a majority. It is ludicrous to suggest that the Jews were merely vacationing, and the land that was owned by their ancestors who had lived two millennia ago is theirs. The Palestinians managed to coexist with the Jewish population in Palestine peacefully, as they did across the Islamic world. Persecution of the Jews was a European construct, so as a solution to it, the Europeans decided to dedicate a portion of their illegally obtained Empire (this particular portion had been owned for less than thirty years by Britain), and sell the people that lived there down the river in favour of people whose only justification was that their ancestors lived there in antiquity. By that logic, the Native Americans should control the full region of the Americas, Aboriginal Australians should control Australia, and the Parsi should control Iran. Its existence is illogical, and based on a mixture of colonial racism and neoclassical and biblical sympathies, rather than concern for the future of the Jewish people. In fact, I would venture to say that the number of wars Israel has been involved in since its founding, Jews in Israel are statistically more at risk there than they would have been should they have remained in Europe. Also, with regards to your comment that the Palestinian people kill innocent civilians to achieve their quest for Israel, you appear to be in complete ignorance of the statistics. Breakdown of Deaths on either side since 2000. Chilren Israeli - 129 Palestinian - 1,519 Other Civilians Israeli - 1,104 Palestinian - 4,226 (bodies located and recorded as deaths, though many more are missing) People Killed in the Course of Targeted Killings Israeli - 1 Palestinian - 408 (Minimum estimate) People Killed as Object of Targeted Killings Israel - 1 Palestinian - 238 People Injured by the Other Side's Actions Israel - 9,104 Palestinian - 50,742 Political Prisoners and Detainees Israeli Prisoners - 0 Palestinian Prisoners - 4,900 Homes Demolished by the Other Side Without Consent Israeli Homes - 0 Palestinian Homes - 27,000 Number of Illegal Settlements on the Other Side's Land Israel - 269 Palestine - 0 Number of Illegal Settlers on the Other Side's Land Israeli Settlers - 350,150 Palestinian Settlers - 0 Source - http://www.ifamericansknew.org... The website has information about the individual sources, the Israeli statistics come from the Israeli government, and the Palestinian statistics are based on estimates by several reputable charities and groups operating in the region. In light of these statistics, it is a far more reasonable argument that Israelis should give up their quest for the land of Palestine, since Palestine hardly seems to be expansionist. The door is open to you.