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A land without a people for a people without a land.
To me, this really is the crux of the situation and one that has never really been properly addressed in past or modern efforts to bring peace to Palestine and Israel.
Obiously the first part of the statement was inherently wrong. Maybe the then residents of the area weren't united under a common flag or recognised form of national governance, but they did still live there.
The second part, however is a more troubling issue. Firstly the grouping of "a people" was already particularly dangerous. It is one thing for a nation to adopt a religion as a principle tenet of its culture, it is something wholly different for an ill-described religious group of people to be given a nation. I've often said that is a huge mistake to found a nation on a religion. Following on from that, it is again one thing to ensure safe settlement to a region of historic importance to a group of people is entirely different to couple that with the enforced eviction of the current residents, regardless of their legitimate right to be there.
Coming up to the present time, tynan is spot on, regardless of the past and the sins of the fathers, a two state solution is pretty much the only way forward here. If we look beyond the region in question, it took 144 years from the abolition of slavery for the USA to elect a black president of it's own volition. Where segregation and dysfunction exist between two parties, it will take a long time for one to accept a member of the other as a focus of legitimate authority.