Robomatic, re "the failure to acknowledge Jews as Palestinians"

I'm not sure whose failure you ahve in mind, but I did make the point a few posts back that Jews had been living in the area for ages and lived in relative peace with their other semitic neighbours (Palestinian Arabs) - UNTIL the zionist project of an Israeli state began to take shape. I venture to suggest that Palestinian Arabs had accepted Palestinian Jews as their neighbours (even if they had different religions and didn't intermarry much etc.,) but the creation of Israel brought a huge influx of immigration into the region, especially from Europe, America and Russia. These Jewish immigrants were NOT Palestinian anymore than I am French though my more recent ancestors are supposed to have come from France or indeed African just because my distant ancestors were supposed to have come from the Rift Valley.

They were European, Amercian and Russian, whatever about their Jewish religion, and they brought a different cultural outlook with them, with a different outlook on what kind of political entity the region would be: one with Israeli Jews as the primary citizens and all others as secondary citizens. That, plus the pressure on living space brought about by the influx of numbers, and the manner in which this problem was 'resolved', was bound to lead to conflict.