Because peace, or peaceful ways, can give birth to more peace. Unfortunately all nations in the world were born in wars and bloodshed. It seems that the Palestinian state is not different from all nations of the world. The Jewish state had its period of resistance and violence during the British mandate before 1948, after which the State of Israel was born. History makes all peoples equal in their refusal and condemnation of violence, and in the same time in their forced recourse to violence.
Violence is to be condemned.
But any form of oppression, of illegitimate military Occupation is a form of violence and a direct invitation to violence. Those days will be the days of the second coming of Christ, and the entrance in the Kingdom of God, when all earthly kingdoms will have their end. Violence in Jerusalem is in full contradiction with the nature and the call of the holy city. However, Jerusalem during its long history, though permeated by the mystery of God, knew many forms of violence. Concretely, the question of Jerusalem has a double aspect, political and religious.