I think a lot of things said in this thread represent why the peace process has stalled. People think too much in extremes. Whatever happened in the past is irrelevant, both sides did bad things. We now have 2 peoples, the only common sense solution is for each of them to have a state, and for both of them to maintain joint control over the holiest city in the area to make sure everybody is happy. Before the rise of the 2 nationalist identities and the modern conflict, nobody had a problem with Muslims praying at Al-Aqsa and Jews praying at the Western Wall right across.
Another point that I'd like to make is how Palestinian Christians aren't mentioned a lot in these arguments. As much as some people want to lump the Palestinian cause in general with millitant groups, the legitimate Palestinian government is officially secular, not Islamist, and actually even has special laws in place so that a historically Christian city like Bethlehem will always have a Christian Mayor.
