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Detail is important though I'm not sure this threads descent into historical analysis into the construing of comparative religious validity has actual bearing on the current situation
It's about land, security, and statehood today.
The settlers have created new facts on the ground to make 2 states almost impossible as displacing these illegal yat tacitly supported enclaves doesn't seem viable. (The removal of the fewer jewish Gaza settlements under Oslo were tough enough.)
Hamas still wants one state, not a one state solution but a one state final solution, making jews a minority in a hostile state, or
worse.
The right wing Israeli government wants to destroy Hamas, the more extreme want their final solution too
The moderate fatah, and perhaps the palestian majority will tolerate a 2 state solution if it brings peace and an ease of life.
As perhaps do the moderate Israelis
As ever the power desperate leaders on many sides want to shore up their power whatever the cost.
Whatever happens next will happen as, (as Yuval Noah Harrari says) will happen because there's no room for empathy on either side in this tragedy.
It's on us to hold an understanding of the pain and existential crisis of both sides and ready ourselves to be there when the time comes