Palestine is a land dispute. Old as time. The doctrines that allow religious people to lay claim to this or that are not universal to either faith. There are anti-Zionist ultra-orthodox Jews for example. As for the Arabs, most of their claims are about national and civil rights. Their claims to religious sites and practices on balance, have been respected while other rights were denied.
Framing this as a conflict between Jews and Muslims serves only to muddy the water, inflame prejudice, and add artificial complexity. The ground truth of the conflict wouldn’t change an iota if everyone “from the river to the sea” suddenly lost their faith.
The Palestinian people have been colonized since the fall of the Ottoman Empire. As Egypt, Syria, Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia clawed some kind of self determination from Europe, Palestinians were kept under the boot. First by England who supported the Zionist project (while strictly limiting Jewish refugees and immigrants herself) Then by the ascendant Zionists themselves. The lines drawn and the issues at stake have as more to do with Sykes and Picot than it does with Issac and Ishmael. More Balfour than God.
Zionism isn’t essentially Jewish any more than Manifest Destiny was essentially Protestant. Resistance to colonization isn’t essentially Muslim any more than it was essentially Comanche.
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