In light of the recent news, you might think that Israel and Palestine are in the middle of some sort of religious war, which is inaccurate. What's happening is a symptom of settler colonialism. Israel has given themselves the exclusive right to self-determination on the land, which comes at the expense of Palestinians who are the native population, who are treated as second-class citizens and a demographic threat. Israel doesn't have a problem with Muslims, they have a problem with Palestinians. Palestinians that are taking up space on what they want to turn into illegal Jewish-only Israeli settlements. And it's why Israeli forces also terrorized Christian Palestinians, and also why Israeli forces arrested hundreds of Palestinians after beating and humiliating them while they were peacefully worshiping at a holy site. One of the last few places Palestinians can claim as their own. And why instead of stopping and arresting Israeli settlers attacking Palestinians in Huwara, not only did the army support them, but the state backed them.