Yes, both sides have reason to believe that the land should be theirs, but while the Jews left, the Palestinians stayed and started a successful country and way of life. Because of this, the Palestinians should get to pick which half of the land they want, while the Jews will get the other half of the land. So both sides get the land they deserve, and the people who stayed, get the land that they want.
Israeli forces defeated the Palestinian militias (a military that is raised from the civil population to help a regular army in an emergency) and Arab armies in a conflict that turned 700,000 Palestinian civilians into refugees. All this just because the Palestinians were developing a country that the Jews had left, and then wanted back, after the Palestinians had already started to successfully make their way.
The Jewish people left Israel and came back forcefully. They made Palestinians leave their homes and flee to refugee camps in neighboring countries.
I agree that it would be a good idea to have a two-state solution, where both sides have equal land. Having the same currency, and Jerusalem as shared territory would be beneficial for uniting the two together to show that they have equal power. The only thing is, humans can be selfish, and as the Jews claim that the land was given to them by God, and the Palestinians also deserve the land because it was always theirs, the two might continue to fight as they think that they should both deserve the whole country. Other than that, though, I think that it is a plan that will prove successful.
I agree that the Jews were wrongly mistreated during the Holocaust and that this forced them to flee their country to safety. The United Nations then gave the land to the Jews as a place that they could go and be safe, but was it ever the UN's land to give away? This was supposed to bring about peace, but the Palestinians had been living on the land for the entire time that the Jews had left. By giving the Jews land, that did not belong to the UN, was unfair for the Palestinians, which is why they should get to keep some of the land and get first pick for what they should want.
The Israelis do have holy sites and sacred places and claim Jerusalem as a sacred and holy capital, but the Palestinians do as well. “There are biblical reasons for treating both sides with compassionate public justice in the same way that disputes should be settled between nations generally,” says Baptist theologian John Piper. “In other words, the Bible does not teach us to be partial to Israel or to the Palestinians because either has a special divine status.”
Yes, they developed the land, and they fought many wars protecting it, they just left, while the Palestinians stayed. If they cared so much about the land, and think it should be theirs, then why leave?
Although the Israelis settled and developed the land, they didn't stick with it, and left completely, without making sure that the land would still be theirs. They came back expecting that they could just have the land back, even though they just left it hanging for anyone to take. The Palestinians never left, and yet the Jews are trying to take their land because they left it, and the Palestinians rightfully took it.
Yes, God did promise the Jews the land, because they were his chosen people, but the Israelites were driven from the land by God for not obeying Him. They should not get the land, because they are still not keeping covenant with Him.
The Palestinians have always lived in Israel, they never left like the Jews did. There is not a single point in history that they have not lived there. But because the Israelites (Jews) were promised the land, it should be split in half (underneath the West Bank and Gaza Strip) so that each side gets the land they deserve.
