Israel came into being by the stroke of a pen. However, the Jews believed they were returning to the holy land and felt justified in recovering it from the Arabs. They were initially helped by the Western greed for oil possessed by the Arabs. Today, the US helps the Israelis, though they disapprove of the colonisation of Palestine, because of the powerful jewish lobby.
The Palestinians are brethren with Arabs and all are muslims. It may not be too difficult to convince self-righteous muslims that they need to fight for their brothers. In politics deaths are part of the passage. It is true of British India, independent India and recently Iraq.
Sad cause and effect but true. At the bottom of it all is Israel's drive to assert itself. They do not accept the thousands of years of history that followed the exodus of jews from Egypt.
