hadn't seen this --
I'd seen after 10/7 that few Israelis support a two-state solution, but few Palestinians do either. The world cannot impose a two-state solution that the people living there do not want -- we've been trying that for 80 years. The people living there, each side, wants their own state to win. So they keep fighting
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Zionism - mixing the Jeweish religion up with nationalist body of thought (Zionism already exists since the late 19th (!) century) - and Sunni Islam - mixing up nationalist body of thought based on historic examples like the Ottoman empire with Sunni religious extremism in the kind that the Muslim Brotherhood from Egypt, Al Quaida and the Islamic State had adopted (respectively: partly even helped creating). For the origin of this body of thought, please head down the trail of a man once named "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sayyid Qutb.
The combination of Islam and nationalist body of thought was created later than Zionism; it's a product of the time past WWII.. (But surely it also has to be seen as a product/reaction towards Israels early existence and its politics towards its neighboring countries, as well as the Middle East politics of the old colonial powers France and GB.)
And that mental soil creates the situation that both fractions think that "the holy land" is their rightful property. And only theirs. No option of sharing it with someone else.
One of the two fractions has already committed several atrocities in the form of arbitarily annexing territories from surrounding nations and leading wars with neighboring countries over nobody-knows-what - and just because a religious group is in command there ever since which has suffered a lot throughout human history, the world turned a blind eye towards these for decades.
Those who had to suffer from these acts, of course, are furious with rage about them... Even the more as this fraction continues with the way it (usually)behaves.
(Actually, Zionism and the modern radicalized Islam are two living proofs of it that religions aren't just some communities based on religious faith and praying to a certain God(s), but that religion always also has a so-called "political arm", by which it attempts to influence politics according to the religious leaders' wishes, ambitions and religious delusions. That's why religion should NEVER be only regarded as a bunch of folks with some customs, strange costumes, rituals and a certain "way of life". All religions, sooner or later, develop these political arms and aim to influencethe laws they have to bow down to.)
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Yes, I agree there's a combo of religious nationalism and ethnic nationalism and even religious ethnic nationalism. They all run together to create opposing identities that sort people into groups who fight each other for supremacy.
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